Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Doug Wedge, Charlie O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie O’Brien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
To put that accomplishment in perspective, Hall of Fame catchers Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra each...
Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
SABR Digital Library, #10
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21, and held a 7–4 lead in the deciding game. The Pirates hadn't won a World Championship since 1925,...
by Ronnie Norpel
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
In Baseball Karma & The Constitution Blues, Ronnie Norpel gives us a play-by-play, behind-the-scenes account of a woman learning about life, luck, love and superstitions during her youthful days as a (real-life) ballgirl and front office representative for a top-level major league baseball team....
Stealing Home
A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2019
"Five Stars. So much more than a memoir. It’s a grand road trip story as well as a real-life family saga--and at its heart, a consummate baseball story." — Jack Magnus, Reader's Favorite
The rarest outcome in sports is baseball’s perfect game. One team does everything right,...
Tales from the Angels Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Angels Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Tales from the Angels Dugout is a humorous and fascinating look at the lighter side of forty-one years of frustration followed by the excitement of 2002. Award-winning sportswriter Steve Bisheff reminds us of those colorful days with The Cowboy, Gene Autry and the struggles under the ownership of...
A Bowl Full of Memories
100 Years of Football at the Yale Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Bowl Full of Memories: 100 Years of Football at the Yale Bowl covers the Yale football from its inception in 1872 and pays tribute to the historic Yale Bowl, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2014. Based on more than 150 interviews-more than 100 of which were conducted with former players-the...
The Theater of the Impossible
Baseball as a Free Enterprise Pastime and a Protestant Miracle Play
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Mark Twain called baseball "the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteeth-century". This book searches the concrete actions typical of baseball games for the meaning of what they represent. For example,...
When Shea Was Home
The Story of the 1975 Mets, Yankees, Giants, and Jets
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Four teams, 175 games, 3,738,546 fans-one stadium. If 1975 wasn’t the most successful year in New York sports-and it wasn’t-then it was certainly one of the oddest. For that one crazy season, all four New York teams-the Mets, Jets, Yankees, and Giants-called Shea Stadium home.
When Shea...
More than Beards, Bellies and Biceps
The Story of the 1993 Phillies (And the Phillie Phanatic Too)
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Stubble scruffed up their chins. Tobacco wads ballooned their cheeks. The 1993 Philadelphia Phillies had the look of a slow-pitch softball team itching to kick some serious butt. They did kick butt, too, on and off the field. “They lived the life of professional baseball players as fully as it can...
Season of '42
Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball?s Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes, and other war materials, and Uncle Sam...
by Gregory Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
How do you measure success? Baseball players, for instance, can fail seven out of ten times at the plate and go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. So why do you think you need to bat 1.000?
Swing for the Fences draws on lessons from America’s greatest pastime to create a manual of practical tools...
by Jeff Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Whether it's trying on new tennis shoes, going fishing or playing baseball - little brother likes to do whatever his big brother does.
Red Sox Rhymes
Verses and Curses
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox.
A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained...
It Takes More Than Balls
The Savvy Girls' Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
For years, Deidre Silva and Jackie Koney figured that men simply knew more about baseball than they did. They tried to reconcile their love of baseball with their second-class fan status, but they finally realized that not getting in a tizzy over the 1952 World Series didn't mean that they weren't...