Essays Writings category: 369 books
Wrigleyworld
A Season In Baseball's Best Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
In 2016 the Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series after a 108 year losing streak. But before that, "never say die” was a way of life for Cubs fans, including sportswriter Kevin Kaduk...
In the summer 2005 season, in a fit of nostalgic, heartfelt (and possibly insane) loyalty to his...
Amazing Tales from the New York Yankees Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Yankees Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
When it comes to baseball glory, no other team comes close to the New York Yankees, winners of forty American League pennants and twenty-seven World Series championships. Amazing Tales from the Yankee Dugout is a compilation of the funniest, strangest, and most unique stories, anecdotes, and tall...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Novelist W. P. Kinsella wrote that baseball is a game where little gems of wisdom or whimsy can be created in the dugout, the bullpen, or the press box during long, hot afternoons and evenings of baseball.” The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom unearths a treasury of quotes reflecting more than...
Red Sox by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players. Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story of every Red Sox player since '31-from Bill Sweeney...
Game of My Life San Francisco Giants
Memorable Stories of Giants Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Orlando Cepeda breaks into the majors with a home run. Willie Mays drills four homers in a single game while sick to his stomach. Felipe Alou prays for a ninth-inning miracle with the National League pennant on the line. In Game of My Life San Francisco Giants, you’ll experience the exceptional...
by Brian Startare, Kevin Reavy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
This Day in Philadelphia Sports, first published in 2014 and now newly updated in paperback to cover Super Bowl LII, Villanova basketball's latest championships, and more, offers a concise 366-day approach to looking back at the history of Philadelphia sports. Every day on the calendar is represented...
Yankee Doodles
Inside the Locker Room with Mickey, Yogi, Reggie, and Derek
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. While he was there to report on the action that occurred on the field, as well as the many disruptions occurring...
The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!
The Game as Umpires See It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction
In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball:...
Take Time for Paradise
Americans and Their Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and
utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final
book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of
American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our
use of free time tells us something...
The Bryce Harper Story
Rise of a Young Slugger
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Bryce Harper’s unprecedented ascent to the major leagues, from a 17-year-old first overall draft pick to a headline-creating, 19-year-old rookie center fielder for the Washington Nationals, dropped him into the middle of the best season of D.C. baseball since the Great Depression. Washington Post sports...
Rickey & Robinson
The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer...
In the Time of Bobby Cox
The Atlanta Braves, Their Manager, My Couch, Two Decades, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Bobby Cox has now hung up his spikes, leaving behind an unparalleled tenure as one of the most successful managers of all time. Known throughout baseball as a player’s manager, the legendary skipper has endeared himself to all who love the game. His constancy has been an anomaly in this fickle sports...
Mookie
Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
WITH NEW UPDATES FOR THIS EDITION!
They said it was the “Curse of the Bambino.” They said “the bad guys won.” Now, for the first time in trade paperback, one of baseball’s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story—from the ground ball through...
The Fenway Project
SABR Digital Library, #13
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
On June 28, 2002, more than six hundred members of the Society for American Baseball Research descended on Fenway Park for an interleague contest between the hometown Boston Red Sox and their National League rivals, the former Boston — now Atlanta — Braves, during SABR's 32nd national convention.
Sixty-four...