Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Joe Pisapia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Fantasy Baseball Black Book is your definitive guide to dominating your fantasy baseball league.Written by fantasy baseball expert Joe Pisapia , a two-decade veteran fantasy GM, columnist, podcaster and former editor of fantasy sports content for fanhudle.com, the Black Book is the fundamental...
by Brent Loehr
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Few individuals share Brent Loehr’s fascinating and diverse perspective on baseball. Taste the truly international flavor of America's greatest game as he did, and draw life lessons from the inspiring stories of others. Brent’s baseball journey began in Western Canada. A playing career that...
Baseball in the Lone Star State
The Texas League's Greatest Hits
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In short episodic chapters, Kayser and King create a history of this storied minor league, providing a broad picture of the shifting character of baseball operations over the past century or so. Portrayed are the many and varied and often colorful owners, managers, and players who did so much to give...
Babe Ruth's Called Shot
The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The anticipation of another showdown with the Bambino transformed Wrigley Field. Temporary bleachers held the overflow of the 50,000-strong crowd that bright September day. Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and Yankees stood locked at 4-4. An angry mob, rocking the ballpark with pent-up...
Pete Rose
An American Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Pete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst abandon that endeared him to fans and peers, even as it riled others--a figure at once magnetic, beloved and polarizing. Rose has more base hits than anyone in history, yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. Twenty-five years ago he was banished...
Piazza
Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a city’s rapt attention in the other, gained election to the Hall of Fame. Within weeks of this long-awaited announcement, the ballclub with whom...
From the Babe to the Beards
The Boston Red Sox in the World Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
With the Curse” a distant memory, the Boston Red Sox are the first team this century to win three World Series titles. Before 2004, an obnoxious Yankees fan might have smirked: The Red Sox in the World Series? The world’s shortest book!”
In actual fact, the Red Sox have played in twelve...
by Society for American Baseball Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journal is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication presenting the best in SABR member research on baseball. History, biography, economics, physics, psychology, game theory, sociology and culture,...
When the Braves Ruled the Diamond
Fourteen Flags over Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From 1991 through 2005, the Atlanta Braves did something no pro sports team can match, finishing in first place for fourteen consecutive seasons.
During that stretch, the Braves paired powerful pitching with potent hitting that produced under pressure. Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox won with...
Philadelphia Phillies
Where Have You Gone?
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Philadelphia Phillies fans are not casual about their favorite team or its players. These intense and loyal fans expect a full effort from their charges, regardless of the outcome. Philadelphia Phillies: Where Have You Gone? takes an informative stroll down memory lane and includes information about...
Detroit the Unconquerable: The 1935 Detroit Tiger
SABR Digital Library, #23
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
It had taken three and a half decades, but the Detroit Tigers were finally crowned the best team in baseball in 1935. Coming on the heels of their hugely disappointing loss in the World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals the year before, the Tigers emerged victorious in a thrilling six-game October...
'75: The Red Sox Team that Saved Baseball
SABR Digital Library, #27
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1975, the Boston Red Sox played in what was the most-watched World Series in history, an epic seven-game battle with Cincinnati's Big Red Machine that captivated the nation's attention and revived baseball's lagging popularity. '75 tells the life stories of the 37 players who made up the Red...
Just Show Up
And Other Enduring Values from Baseball's Iron Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
New York Times Bestseller.
Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr.—the 19-time All-Star, World-Series winning legend, American League MVP, and record holder who played 2,632 consecutive games—outlines eight rules for the game of baseball and life, drawn from the lessons he has learned on and off the field.
Cal...
Tales from the 1967 Red Sox
A Collection of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
By the end of 1966, the Boston Red Sox were a team in serious trouble. The Red Sox had not won a pennant in twenty years and had not posted a winning record in eight. Pampered by their benevolent owner, Tom Yawkey, the Red Sox had developed a reputation as a team that cared more about having a good...