Essays Writings category: 369 books
Bull City Summer
A Season at the Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as lazing out on the porch of a summer’s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.” For a printed version with photographs, please visit 978-0-9889831-6-8.
Six Decades of Baseball
A Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
"...one of the most heart-felt baseball books to come out in the last few months, written not by a journalist with nice advancement but by a simple fan who put up his own money, got it self published, and got himself heard." - Tom Hoffarth, columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News
"His...
It Was Never About the Babe
The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For years, Red Sox fans were told that their team was cursed because the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees. But as Jerry Gutlon reveals in It Was Never About the Babe, there is much more drama to Red Sox history than the Curse of the Bambino.” The truth is more shocking than any myth.
With...
The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions
SABR Digital Library, #18
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracle" that resounds to this very day. The "Miracle Braves" were Boston's first "worst-to-first" winners...
Van Lingle Mungo: The Man, The Song, The Players
SABR Digital Library, #22
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Just as 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants pitcher Van Lingle Mungo was surprised that Dave Frishberg wrote a song around his name back in 1969, so he might have been surprised to come across this book in the year 2014. Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" listed 37 ballplayers...
So You Think You're a New York Mets Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
So You Think You’re a New York Mets Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Mets baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, this book will give you the details behind each-stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.
This book is divided into...
So You Think You're a Kansas City Royals Fan?
Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
So You Think You’re a Kansas City Royals Fan? will test and expand your knowledge of one of Major League Baseball’s most successful expansion franchises. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each-stories that bring to life the history of the Kansas...
500 Great Boston Red Sox Quotes
A History of Baseball Quotations From Fenway Park's Finest
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
"Baseball got in me when I was little. It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me. It's a disease." —Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989)
Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every New Englander, the Boston Red Sox are an institution: kids...
by Ray Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
"All these many years down the road, Lou Gehrig's reputation still holds up as does Ray Robinson's elegant biography." –Bob Costas
Lou Gehrig will go down in history as one of the best ballplayers of all time; he was elected to the Hall of Fame and played in a record-setting 2,130...
Tales from the Kansas City Royals Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Royals Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Amos Otis, Frank White, George Brett, Hal McRae, Dan Quisenberry, Bret Saberhagen, Paul Splittorff-one mention of any of those names can bring about visions of great baseball, determination, and winning. However, one vision outweighs all others: the boys in blue
the Kansas City Royals.
The...
Braves Field: Memorable Moments at Boston's Lost Diamond
SABR Digital Library, #29
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
From its opening on August 18, 1915 to the sudden departure of the Boston Braves to Milwaukee just weeks before the start of the 1953 baseball season, Braves Field was home to Boston's National League baseball club. The ballpark hosted many other events, from college and NFL football to major-league...
Tigers by the Tale: Great Games at Michigan & Trumbull
SABR Digital Library, #38
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
For over 100 years, Michigan and Trumbull was the scene of some of the most exciting baseball ever. This book, the collaborative work of 34 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), portrays 50 classic games at the corner, spanning the earliest days of Bennett Park until Tiger...
The 1986 New York Mets: There Was More Than Game Six
SABR Digital Library, #35
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
One of two companion volumes of biographies of the players, coaches, announcers, and others involved with the 1986 World Series, one on each team, the Mets and the Red Sox. One of the most dramatic World Series in baseball history, the 1986 series featured many more twists and turns than just "the...
Leyendas del Beisbol Cubano: El Universo Alternativo del Beisbol
SABR Digital Library
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Minnie Miñoso. Martín Dihigo. Luis Tiant. Orlando "El Duque" y Liván Hernández. Estas son sólo algunas de las grandes figuras perfiladas en Leyendas del Béisbol Cubano: El Universo Alternativo del Béisbol. Los 47 individuos describen más adelante representan sólo un pequeño puñado...