Baseball category: 2631 books
Red Sox vs. Yankees
Hometown Experts Analyze, Debate, and Illuminate Baseball's Ultimate Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Teddy Ballgame or the Great Bambino? Nomar or Jeter? Clemens or Clemens?
For more than 115 years, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have been battling it out on the diamond, playing each other over 2,000 times. This heated rivalry has stood the test of time, as one team’s triumph usually...
The Bucs!
The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Bucs is the story of a baseball club.
The word “story” is purposely used in lieu of the more common designation “history.” A baseball club rarely has a history in the strictest sense of the word. Instead, the record of its formation and growth more closely resembles a biography....
The Ball
Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Originally published in 1999, Daniel Paisner's THE BALL: Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream was hailed as "one of the great quirky masterpieces of baseball journalism" by the editors of Sportsjones.com, and named an Amazon.com "Top Ten Sports Book...
Classic Reds
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
The 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team
Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list...
by Mike Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The author has played recreational baseball of one kind or another for almost sixty years. He has worn the uniforms of more than a dozen teams over that period—sometimes noticeably, sometimes competently, and a scant few times almost disgracefully. Included in this narrative is a history of his...
It Was Never About the Babe
The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For years, Red Sox fans were told that their team was cursed because the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees. But as Jerry Gutlon reveals in It Was Never About the Babe, there is much more drama to Red Sox history than the Curse of the Bambino.” The truth is more shocking than any myth.
With...
The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the most storied histories in the annuals of baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia captures these fabulous times through the stories of the individuals and the collective teams that have thrilled the Steel City for 125 years. The book breaks down the team...
The Call to the Hall
When Baseball's Highest Honor Came to 31 Legends of the Sport
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
The names on the cast-bronze plaques hanging in the National Baseball Hall of Fame embody the history and drama of the sport—they are the royalty of baseball. Yet many inductees believed their entry into the Hall was anything but guaranteed, and even some who waited by the phone for the fateful...
The 1957 San Francisco Seals
End of an Era in the Pacific Coast League
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the impending “invasion of major league baseball” in 1958. While the meetings, wheeling and dealing and politics took place off the diamond, the historic San Francisco Seals, a charter member of the Golden Era of the league, 1903–1957, played baseball...
Tales from the Kansas City Royals Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Royals Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Amos Otis, Frank White, George Brett, Hal McRae, Dan Quisenberry, Bret Saberhagen, Paul Splittorff-one mention of any of those names can bring about visions of great baseball, determination, and winning. However, one vision outweighs all others: the boys in blue
the Kansas City Royals.
The...
The New York Yankees of the 1950s
Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star,...
Hairs vs. Squares
The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs....
Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series
SABR Digital Library, #50
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book was inspired by the last Negro League World Series ever played and presents biographies of the players on the two contending teams in 1948 — the Birmingham Black Barons and the Homestead Grays — as well as the managers, the owners, and articles on the ballparks the teams called home.
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Jeff Bagwell in Connecticut: A Consistent Lad in the Land of Steady Habits
SABR Digital Library, #64
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
"The only one I ever saw come close to [Frank Robinson] was this kid Bagwell. Boy, is he aggressive ... boy, can he swing that bat. ... I want to meet him someday because I admire him." — Ted Williams
"You get ball players from Texas, California, Florida or one or all of the...