Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Ed Holley pitched in major league baseball during the years of the Great Depression. He came up with the Chicago Cubs in 1928. However, his best years were with the Philadelphia Phillies, in 1932-1933. In those seasons he accounted for 24 wins, pitching for a team that finished annually in last place....
Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Dugout
Remembering ?The Fam-A-Lee?
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The year is 1979. America is in a funk. And Pittsburgh was no exception.
Double-digit inflation, a near disaster at nearby Three Mile Island, and the decline of downtown businesses all placed over the city of Pittsburgh a cloud that grew darker than the smoke that rose from the Homestead Works 25...
The New York Mets Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball’s most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, New York’s National...
The Team That Time Won't Forget: The 1951 New York Giants
SABR Digital Library, #32
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Because of Bobby Thomson's dramatic "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in the bottom of the ninth of the decisive playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team will forever be in baseball public's consciousness.
But of course there is much more to the story of that famous team...
Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty
Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time
New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history...
The Immaculate Inning
Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selection of the most unusual,...
The Fifth Season
Tales of My Life in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would...
For the Love of Baseball
A Celebration of the Game That Connects Us All
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Stefan Fatsis sends his stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect” glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers...
Jack Buck
?That?s a Winner!?
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In his forthright and honest autobiography, former St. Louis Cardinal, World Series, and Super Bowl broadcaster Jack Buck entertains all of his fans once more in a different setting. Jack Buck: "That's a Winner!" does more than entertain, however. It provides readers with an inside look at a man...
Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.
An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more than 5,000 quotations, noted baseball writer and observer Paul Dickson has captured the flavor of the game, in the words of its most important...
by Mickey McDermott, Howard Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
When Mickey McDermott came up with the Red Sox at 19, the buzz was that his 100-mph fastball could make his the greatest southpaw ever. But McDermott took his eye off the ball to have a ball. His focus became booze, broads and baseball (in that order) before he struck it rich in 1991 by winning $7 million in the Arizona State Lottery.
by F.C. Lane
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In 2012, SABR named F.C. Lane as an honoree of the Chadwick Award, given to baseball's greatest researchers. Lane (1896-1984) was the editor and a prolific writer for Baseball Magazine from 1912 through 1937, and then served as editor of the Little Red Book of Major League baseball through 1948....
Incredible Baseball Stories
Tales from the Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An incomparable collection of true-life tales from the rich history of America’s pastime.
Spanning more than a hundred years, and featuring some of the game’s iconic stars, the stories in this one-of-a-kind book bring the legends of the baseball diamond to life once more. Fans of all ages...
by Tobey Shiverick
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
When Tobey Shiverick turned 78, he gave himself the gift of fulfilling a lifelong dream: To see a ballgame at every major league stadium in one season. Five months, 34,000 miles, a cycle and a steal of home later, he was done. The result was an unforgettable trip across the country of baseball, and...