Baseball category: 2631 books
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The man Newsweek once called “the guru of baseball” offers profiles of top managers, sidebars, statistics, and snapshots of each decade.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in the history of the game, Bill James has changed the way we think about the sport of baseball. In...
Facing Ted Williams
Players from the Golden Age of Baseball Recall the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The Splendid Splinter,” Teddy Ballgame,” The Kid”-no matter the nickname, Ted Williams was one of the most accomplished hitters in baseball history. He was the last man to hit .400 in a single season, a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time MVP and Triple Crown award winner, and an inductee...
by Doug Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Finalist for the 2014 Casey Award!
Selected by the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the 2014 author's series
Brooks Robinson is one of baseball's most transcendent and revered players. He won a record sixteen straight Gold Gloves at third base, led one of the best teams of the era,...
Baseball Beyond Our Borders
An International Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played.
This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instructive,...
Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 45 #2
SABR Digital Library, #45.2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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,...
Perfect
The Rise and Fall of John Paciorek, Baseball's Greatest One-Game Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
THE MAN WHO BATTED A THOUSAND A spectacular major-league debut—then obscurity.
On the final day of the 1963 major-league baseball season, Houston Colt .45s teen sensation John Paciorek—in his one and only big-league game—went three-for-three, giving him a career batting average of 1.000....
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Baseball inspired millions of people in the United States. It evolved from the old bat and ball games which used to be played in England during the 18th century. The immigrants who came to settle in North America were the ones responsible to bring this game to the Americans. Eventually they came up...
by Bob Rives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The art of baseball is evident at Wichita State University's Eck Stadium. The bronze sculpture, "Put Me in Coach," overlooks the stadium entry. Behind it a 70-foot mural, the longest of its kind at any university ballpark, depicts WSU's storied baseball history. The art of baseball has also been evident...
A Baseball Summer in the South
Photos of the Appalachian League 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Discover the Appalachian League. The Advanced Rookie level of Minor League baseball where so many have gotten their start in professional baseball. This is a book of photographs with a dual purpose. One is to share with the reader different views of the ballparks to understand the charm and appeal...
Baseball Meat Market
The Stories Behind the Best and Worst Trades in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Shawn Krest is an incredible and gripping sportswriter who shares a detailed narrative behind the best and worst MLB player trades in history. Few topics of baseball can get fans as easily riled up as trades, and any baseball fan will spout words of rage or thrill at the big blockbuster ones. However,...
Vaudeville on the Diamond
Minor League Baseball in Today’s Entertainment World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to consumers, what is it about minor league baseball...
Almost Perfect
The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball’s most hard-luck fraternity—the pitchers of its Almost-Perfect Games
From 1908 to 2015, there have been thirteen pitchers who have begun Major League Baseball games by retiring the first twenty-six opposing batters, but then, one out from...
by Matt Nadel
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Matt Nadel is a 15-year-old baseball historian whose blog and media appearances are fast-propelling him to national prominence. Matt has written a thorough and accessible book on the biggest stars, greatest games, and most amazing feats in baseball history. Richly illustrated, the text includes bios...
Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty
Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time
New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, and rookie Joe DiMaggio—with these six future Hall of Fame players, the Yankees embarked on a four-year run that would go down in the history...