Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Roger Angell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Angell’s absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s
Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America’s national pastime—chronicling the larger-than-life narratives and on-field intricacies of baseball from 1982 to 1987. Angell’s...
Can He Play? A Look at Baseball Scouts and Their Profession
SABR Digital Library, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
They dig through tons of coal to find a single diamond. They spend countless hours traveling miles and miles on lonely back roads and way too much time in hotels. Their front offices expect them to constantly provide player reports and updates. So much of their time is spent away from family and friends,...
Damn Yankees
Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball.
With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated...
The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats
In Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything...
Confessions of a She-Fan
The Course of True Love with the New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Two months into the 2007 baseball season, novelist Jane Heller, an obsessed Yankee fan heartsick over their poor play, announced her intention to divorce the team, on grounds of mental cruelty, in the pages of the New York Times. Her words inflamed the passions of sports lovers across the country,...
by Roger Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic. His search led him from small college teams in rural Arkansas, whose every member hopes to...
90% of the Game Is Half Mental
And Other Tales from the Edge of Baseball Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
**"One of the most enjoyable, satisfying sports books I have ever had the pleasure to read." —Jeff Pearlman author, Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won! **
Yogi Berra once said: “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” But for lifelong baseball aficionado Emma Span,...
Montana Summer
The Boys in the Bus Leagues and a Mish-Mash of Other Things to Read
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2000
In this autobiographical sweep through the mists of baseballs past, the author recounts his summer of professional baseball as a pitcher/bus driver for a Class C team in Missoula, Montana in 1956. Long road trips through the Rockies gave him time to reflect on his place in the infrastructure of the...
American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of...
by Roger Angell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This New York Times bestseller “takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight” (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal).
Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell’s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a...
Baseball Beyond Our Borders
An International Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.
This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive,...
New York Times Story of the Yankees
382 Articles, Profiles and Essays from 1903 to Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Experience a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of the Yankees, Major League Baseball's most successful team, as told through the stories of their hometown newspaper, The New York Times.
The New York Yankees are the most storied franchise in baseball history. They consistently draw...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The Detroit Tigers Reader celebrates the great moments and personalities of the city's rich baseball history.
The story of the Tigers---like the story of Detroit itself---is one of resilience and endurance. For baseball fans it's also an intensely personal one: Detroit Tigers baseball has flowed...
by Isabel Denny
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands...