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When Boston Still Had the Babe: The 1918 World Champion Red Sox
SABR Digital Library, #59
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Late into the Boston Red Sox's infamous 86-year championship drought—from 1918 to 2004—it was
nearly taboo to talk seriously about the 1918 team. Some believed the Red Sox were cursed because the
year after the Red Sox won their fifth World Championship, Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees
(who...
Dome Sweet Dome: History and Highlights from 35 Years of the Houston Astrodome
SABR Digital Library, #45
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Recaps of the greatest baseball games ever played in the "eighth wonder of the world," the Astrodome, along with information about Astros history and the building of the Dome.
20-Game Losers
SABR Digital Library, #51
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
You have to be a very good pitcher to lose 20 games in one season. Why would a manager keep putting you out there to pitch, time after time, if you didn't have a chance to win the game? More than 25 percent of the pitchers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame are pitchers who lost 20 or more games...
A Pennant for the Twin Cities: The 1965 Minnesota Twins
SABR Digital Library, #32
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This volume celebrates the 1965 Minnesota Twins, who captured the American League pennant in just their fifth season in the Twin Cities. Led by an All-Star cast, from Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Zoilo Versalles, and Mudcat Grant to Bob Allison, Jim Kaat, Earl Battey, and Jim Perry, the Twins won...
The Year of the Blue Snow: The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies
SABR Digital Library
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Catcher Gus Triandos dubbed the Philadelphia Phillies' 1964 season "the year of the blue snow"-a rare thing that happens once in a great while.
The Phillies were having a spectacular season in which everything was going right. They held a 6 1/2 game lead on September 20, with just...
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights
Memorable Moments in Team History as Heard on the Reds Radio Network
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
As part of every Reds game broadcast on the Reds Radio Network, Greg Rhodes, noted baseball historian and director of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, presents a brief, colorful account of a memorable moment in the history of America's longest-running baseball team. These pieces have become a favorite...
Game of My Life Boston Red Sox
Memorable Stories of Red Sox Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Recalling some of the greatest players in Red Sox history and some of their greatest games, author Chaz Scoggins traces back over 70 years, to the very start of the seminal Yawkey era, in Game of My Life Boston Red Sox. Beginning with Bobby Doerr, the Hall of Fame second baseman who joined the team...
An Outsider's Look at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Ranking the Hall of Famers and How to Fix Cooperstown, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
A lifelong baseball enthusiast and student examines each of the current Hall of Famers according to a ranking system he created and discusses how to fix the Hall of Fame.
Seventh Inning Stretch
Baseball’s Most Essential and Inane Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.
by Dick "Lefty" O'Neal
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
By all counts, Dick "Lefty" O'Neal didn't have a chance of playing professional baseball. However, today he holds the distinction of being the only white baseball player to pitch for two teams in the Negro Leagues that flourished throughout the twentieth century. "Dreaming of the Majors"...
by Mike Sowell
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
It has been nearly 30 years since the Mets, Astros, Red Sox, and Angels waged their epic playoff and World Series battles, and since then no post season has matched their drama. It can be argued that none before 1986 did so either.Bill Buckner's error that ended Game 6 of that year's...
Jackie Robinson
Race, Sports and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen...
José Fernández
Passion for Baseball, Passion for Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The inspiring life and career of the Miami Marlins’ pitcher, the youngest MLB All-Star in team history, who died in a tragic boating accident in 2016.
In August 2016, José Fernández’s girlfriend, Maria Arias, presented him with a special cake at a family dinner to celebrate that they...
War on the Basepaths
The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson). As someone who retired from the game...