Essays Writings category: 369 books
The Jerome Holtzman Baseball Reader
A Treasury of Award-Winning Writing from the Official Historian of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Jerome Holtzman has covered the sport of baseball for the Chicago Daily Times, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Tribune since the mid 1940s, now his thoughts and best columns are collected together in one edition as an official history of Major League Baseball.
The Champions of Philadelphia
The Greatest Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers Teams
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Since the start of the twentieth century, Philadelphia’s professional teams in four major sports have won a combined total of seventeen championships. All of Philadelphia’s current teams-the Phillies in baseball, the Eagles in football, the Flyers in ice hockey, and the 76ers in basketball-have...
by Dale Ratermann, Brian Brosi
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Basketball has evolved to one of the most commonly played sports worldwide. Regardless of how well you think you know basketball, there’s bound to be questions in this book to challenge and entertain, to stimulate discussion, and to start and settle arguments. Featuring questions from the professional,...
Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants, and Stars
True Tales of Breaking Barriers, Umpiring Baseball Legends, and Wild Adventures in the Negro Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over fifty years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s,...
Name That Ballplayer
The Ultimate Baseball "Whodunnit?" Quiz Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Taking a cue from the legendary TV game show Name That Tune, Wayne Stewart's Name That Ballplayer is a unique baseball quiz book. This is not just a list of questions followed by the answers. Readers are given three sets of clues to help them name the ballplayer in question. If they get the player...
Five Seasons
A Baseball Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
A chronicle of our national pastime’s most unforgettable era from the bestselling author of The Summer Game—“No one writes better about baseball” (The Boston Globe).
Classic New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell calls 1972 to 1976 “the most important half-decade in the history of the...
Tales from the Dodgers Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Dodger Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
To baseball fans of today, the name Dodgers” is synonymous with Hollywood, the warm California sun, and names like Tommy Lasorda, Kirk Gibson, Steve Garvey, and Orel Hershiser. The Dodgers mean much more than that to fans of baseball history, however. Namely, these fans remember the famed Boys...
Tales from the St. Louis Cardinals Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Cardinals Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Offering readers more than just a sneak peek into the dugout, Bob Forsch’s Tales from the St. Louis Cardinals Dugout takes fans into the clubhouse, out to the bullpen, onto the mound, up to the batter’s box, around the base paths, along for the ride to spring training, and even on a fishing trip...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The man Newsweek once called “the guru of baseball” offers profiles of top managers, sidebars, statistics, and snapshots of each decade.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in the history of the game, Bill James has changed the way we think about the sport of baseball. In...
Fools Rush Inn
More Detours on the Way to Conventional Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In this second collection of recent articles (the first was Solid Fool's Gold), groundbreaking sabermetrician and baseball historian Bill James takes his unique way of looking at the world and applies it to topics as diverse as the major league players who went out on top, whether ground ball pitchers...
Tales from the Chicago White Sox Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest White Sox Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The 1983 American League West champion Chicago White Sox will forever be remembered by their trademark slogan: “Winning Ugly.” The star of that colorful bunch was an unlikely hero, a twenty-five-year-old rookie from Northwest Indiana. Ron Kittle led the 1983 White Sox with 35 home runs, 100 RBIS,...
Facing Ted Williams
Players from the Golden Age of Baseball Recall the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The Splendid Splinter,” Teddy Ballgame,” The Kid”-no matter the nickname, Ted Williams was one of the most accomplished hitters in baseball history. He was the last man to hit .400 in a single season, a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time MVP and Triple Crown award winner, and an inductee...
Pitching Strategies Explained
A Parent's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Pitching Strategies Explained is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book in the world today on the mental strategies used by top collegiate and professional pitchers. It is a must-have for any player, parent or coach hoping to maximize success at any level of the game.
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Knuckleball
The History of the Unhittable Pitch
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
It took me a day to learn [the knuckleball] and a lifetime to learn how to throw it for a strike.”
This quote, by pitcher and coach Charlie Hough, is the best way to understand baseball’s most baffling and mysterious pitch. Not even the best practitioners of the art of throwing a knuckleball...