Essays Writings category: 369 books
by Chipper Jones, Carroll Rogers Walton
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Atlanta Braves third baseman and National Hall of Famer Chipper Jones—one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history—shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport.
Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star...
The Phenomenon
Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch--not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning,...
Game 7, 1986
Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In New York Times bestselling Game 7, 1986, the award-winning...
The 33-Year-Old Rookie
How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on...
Going the Other Way
An Intimate Memoir of Life In and Out of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
From major league baseball’s only openly gay former player—and now its first-ever Ambassador for Inclusion—the intimate chronicle of a man who, in the prime of his career, had to make a terrible choice between his love of the game and the love of his life
More than ten years after its...
A Nice Tuesday
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A middle-aged man tries to return to baseball—and become a better husband and father—in this funny, heartfelt memoir by the author of A False Spring.
One of baseball’s original “bonus babies,” Pat Jordan signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1959—and then proceeded to struggle mightily...
by Gary Sheffield, David Ritz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream.
Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award. To me, though, he’s family, an uncle, but at four years older, really a brother. I can still remember those games of catch with Dwight in...
Out of My League
The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called "beautifully observed and incredibly conceived," now repackaged and including a foreword from Jane Leavy and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.
The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism,...
by Roger Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer.
Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enough to Dream does the same for players whose moment...
What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?
A Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio, decodes this oversized icon who dominated the game and finds not just a great player, but also a great man.
In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent months on a profile of Ted Williams, and the result was the Esquire...
by Philip Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
La Russa (typically misspelled LaRussa) was signed by the Kansas City Athletics as a middle infielder prior to the start of the 1962 year. He reached the A's the next season, making his launching on May 10, 1963. In the following off-season he suffered a shoulder injury while playing softball with...
Now Pitching for the Yankees
Spinning the News for Mickey, Billy and George
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A legendary New York Yankees PR man offers readers an inside look at one of baseball’s greatest teams.
Starting as a college student sorting Mickey Mantle’s fan mail and rising to become the youngest director of public relations in baseball history, Marty Appel offers a unique behind-the-scenes...
The Crowd Sounds Happy
A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed,...
Giants vs. Dodgers
The Coast-to-Coast History of the Rivalry Heard ?Round the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Games between the Dodgers and Giants are never just another day at the ballpark. Dating back to the late nineteenth century-when the teams embodied the competitive spirit of rival metropolises of New York and Brooklyn-the Giants-Dodgers rivalry gained intensity throughout the early twentieth century....