Essays Writings category: 369 books
The Way Home
Scenes from a Season, Lessons from a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
When Henry Dunow signs up to coach his son Max’s Little League team on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, he finds himself looking back on his own childhood and his father, Moishe, a Yiddish writer and refugee from Hitler’s Europe, who had considered recreation like playing catch with his son narishkeit,...
by Robert Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A team with thousands of enthusiastic fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers are hard to ignore. This new title, The 50 Greatest Players in Dodgers History, will be a perennial favorite. Looking to win the pennant under the direction of their manager, Dave Roberts, the Dodgers are looking to rewrite or add...
by Robert Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most storied teams in the MLB, the Chicago Cubs are always a team to beat. This new title, The 50 Greatest Players in Chicago Cubs History will be a perennial favorite. Looking to win the pennant under the direction of their highly praised manager, Joe Maddon, The Cubs are looking to rewrite...
Cubs by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Cubbies by Uniform Number
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever...
Game of My Life St. Louis Cardinals
Memorable Stories of Cardinals Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Dating back to the Gas House Gang of the 1930s and up to the club’s most recent World Championship in 2006, being a Cardinal has meant a style of play, a level of dedication, and a pride in being a member of a special group. This newly updated edition of Game of My Life St. Louis Cardinals exhibits...
Mets by the Numbers
A Complete Team History of the Amazin' Mets by Uniform Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
This is the first team history of the New York Mets-or any other team-to be told through a lighthearted analysis of uniform numbers. Ordinary club histories proceed year by year to give the big picture. Mets by the Numbers uses jersey numbers to tell the little stories-the ones the fans love-of the...
The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom
A Fine Sense of the Ridiculous
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom uses fact, quote, lesson, and humor to celebrate one of baseball's more storied franchises. Updated edition!
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede...
My Own Particular Screwball
An Informal Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An informal autobiography of the old-time professional baseball pitcher and entertainer, Al Schacht. The Bronx-born Schacht pitched for a decade in the minors with the New York Giants, then the old Washington Senators in 1919, 1920 and 1921. One of the first Jewish players in the professional game,...
by Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, Til Ferdenzi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Life had not been kind to young Tommy Riggs—and even though he had all the natural playing ability to become a Major Leaguer, his anger at the world kept him from becoming the great player he could be.
How Tommy Riggs learned not only to be a star catcher, but also to live with himself and...
Baseball's Greatest Hit
The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Authorized book tie-in to 100th anniversary of this beloved song.
With the release of this special-edition book/CD, authored by three baseball insiders and history experts, the book recounts how “Ball Game” has won a unique and permanent place in our hearts and our cultural landscape. The CD includes many rare, classic, fun, and innovative renditions of the song.
Baseball and the Media
How Fans Lose in Today's Coverage of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What sports fans read, watch, and listen to at home often isn’t the real story coming out of the locker room or the front office. George Castle should know: he’s covered baseball in Chicago for decades and witnessed the widening gulf between the media and the teams they’re supposed to cover—and...
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals: The World Champion Gas House Gang
SABR Digital Library, #20
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals were one of the most colorful crews ever to play the National Pastime. Sportswriters delighted in assigning nicknames to the players, based on their real or imagined qualities. What a cast of characters it was! None was more picturesque than Pepper Martin, the "Wild...
by Gary Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Nineteen-year-old Hank Fletcher is on his way to pitching a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, only to be confronted by the ghost of his abusive father.