Essays Writings category: 369 books
Yankee Classics
World Series Magic from the Bronx Bombers, 1921 to Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
No team, in any sport, enjoys a championship legacy as celebrated as the New York Yankees—and no book provides as thorough an exploration of that legacy as Yankee Classics. With year-by-year recaps filled with stories and photos, the book goes through all 40 World Series the Yankees have participated...
What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?
And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become...
Tales from the New York Mets Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Mets Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
In ?fty years of existence, the New York Mets have experienced almost every phase of success and failure that can be encountered by a major league team. Written by veteran baseball author Bruce Markusen, Tales from the New York Mets Dugout relives some of the favorite moments in Mets history while...
by Dave Bidini
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced...
by Denny McLain
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The last man to win 31 games in one season tells how to pitch and how to win in baseball. Two time Cy Young Award Winner Denny McLain gives tips and techniques to become a great pitcher in America's game.
by Joe DiMaggio
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1948) - Here is Joe DiMaggio’s inside story of baseball, an instructive and entertaining survey of the game written expressly for fan and player alike — the bleacher fan, the sand-lot player, the high school athlete, and anyone who has ever swung a bat or whooped it up for...
by Vince Gennaro
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful and analytical look at the business of baseball by author Vince Gennaro, a consultant to MLB teams. In doing so, Gennaro addresses some key questions that affect how teams make decisions, how they assemble their roster, and ultimately, their bottom...
Fail Better
Why Baseball Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Fail Better uses the sport of baseball as the entry point for a philosophical examination of the beneficial lessons that failure can offer humanity.
Unlike many philosophers, Kingwell's style is open and readily understandable. He has a gift for explaining difficult concepts in a way that any...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the...
Idiot
Beating The Curse and Enjoying the Game of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Dear Baseball Fan:
I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t he have come up with a better title?
My mother agrees with you, but unfortunately Genius just doesn’t have the same ring.
Let’s get something straight right away. I may be an idiot, but I’ve tried to do more in...
This Is Our Time!
The 2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants. The Inside Story: Improbable. Wild. Unforgettable.
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Baseball has life encoded within it as completely as DNA does: the world’s deepest wisdom, edgiest laughter, joys and sorrows. Among the millions who chase baseball’s dream, though, only a few scale the sport’s most rarified heights-not only in terms of victory, but in becoming true selfless...
Fall Classics
The Best Writing About the World Series' First 100 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Long before there was the Super Bowl, the NBA Championship, the Final Four, or the World Cup, there was the World Series. In the beginning, men in derbies sat in the outfield and marveled at Mathewson and McGraw. Today, fans congregate in sports bars, staring at screens big enough to see which players...
Tales from the 1962 New York Mets Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Stories from the Mets Inaugural Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Tales from the 1962 New York Mets Dugout chronicles the adventures, mishaps, and unforgettable stories as the New York Mets burst onto the baseball scene. From the team’s first win, in its 10th game of the season, to its last loss, which ended with the Mets grounding into a triple play, Tales from...
by Daniel Okrent, Steve Wulf
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of baseball lore and legend.
Some of the stories are celebrated—from Ruth’s called shot to DiMaggio’s streak to Mays’s catch. Some of the men are titans of the game—Mantle,...