Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Darryl Brock
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of Caitlin,...
The Last Nine Innings
Inside the Real Game Fans Never See
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
"The Last Nine Innings is the last word on the inside of baseball. It's full of wonderful revelations and perceptions that help us understand the game in ways that we might never have imagined. Charlie Euchner has done a marvelous job in getting players to talk, simply, about how they play, and...
by Christy Mathewson, Cap Anson, John Montgomery Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This volume, formatted to current ebook standards and with an active table of contents, contains three complete books that provide an inside view of early baseball. Two of the authors are members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Works included are: “Pitching in a Pinch,” by Christy...
by Rich Westcott
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
The Philadelphia Phillies franchise has been providing thrills and chills for its faithful fanatics for more than 125 years---with the 2008 World Series victory providing the ultimate high for the team and its city. The Phillies have boasted great legends of the game, including sluggers like Chuck...
Tales from the Los Angeles Dodgers Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Dodgers Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
It took something truly remarkable to save the 1981 Major League Baseball season from being remembered only as the year of the players’ strike. It took the Los Angeles Dodgers: Fernandomania and Lasorda and Garv and Bake and the Penguin. It took three amazing October comebacks to beat the Houston...
by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914–86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn from his uproarious autobiography (cowritten with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn), is an unforgettable...
by Nat Fleischer
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1958, this is the autobiography of renowned U.S. boxing writer and collector, Nat Fleischer. It not only tells the fascinating story of the author himself, but crucially allows the reader a firsthand glimpse into the ring scene of the first half of the 20th century.
“This...
Intangiball
The Subtle Things That Win Baseball Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A unique and refreshing ode to the “little things” that represent baseball’s heartbeat—the player who, in countless ways, makes other players better.
Intangiball tracks the progress of the Cincinnati Reds through five years of culture change, beginning with the trades of decorated veterans...
Perfect
The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball's Greatest One-Game Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
THE MAN WHO BATTED A THOUSAND A spectacular major-league debut—then obscurity.
On the final day of the 1963 major-league baseball season, Houston Colt .45s teen sensation John Paciorek—in his one and only big-league game—went three-for-three, giving him a career batting average of 1.000....
A Franchise on the Rise
The First Twenty Years of the New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
2018 marks 115 years since the inception of the New York Yankees--and what a 115-year period it's been! But how did the team that has since won a league-leading 27 world championships get started? In A Franchise on the Rise, veteran sportswriter Dom Amore takes readers back in time to the first twenty...
Change Up
An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Change Up is every fan's box-seat ticket to a remarkable baseball event: a round-table conversation among the participants themselves about pivotal developments that changed the game, from the 1960s to today. Here, through the eyes and words of star players like Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Ichiro...
by Russ Hodges, Al Hirschberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1963, the year Russ Hodges started his fifteenth season as the voice of the Giants, MY GIANTS is the story of the man who has lived and died with the team through years that have been triumphant, sometimes disappointing, but never, never dull.
“I don’t believe it—I...
Baltimore Orioles
Where Have You Gone? Cal Ripken Jr., Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, and Other Orioles Greats
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Baltimore Orioles: Where Have You Gone? is a unique look at what a number of former Orioles personalities have gone on to do in life since their playing careers ended. Author Jeff Seidel spoke with a wide-ranging number of former Baltimore players, from stars like Cal Ripken Jr. and Brooks Robinson,...
by Robert W. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The 50 Greatest Players in San Francisco/New York Giants History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National League’s most iconic and successful franchises. Using as measuring sticks the degree to which they impacted the fortunes of the team, the extent...