Baseball category: 2631 books
The Voices of Baseball
The Game's Greatest Broadcasters Reflect on America's Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
With careers spanning two to three times that of an average player, baseball’s best broadcasters have no shortage of history to offer. They have witnessed opening days, no hitters, slugfests, and perfect games, all from arguably the best seats in the house. From former Baltimore Orioles announcer...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of...
Ninety Percent Mental
An All-Star Player Turned Mental Skills Coach Reveals the Hidden Game of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Former Major League pitcher and mental skills coach for two of baseball's legendary franchises (the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants) Bob Tewksbury takes fans inside the psychology of baseball.
In Ninety Percent Mental, Bob Tewksbury shows readers a side of the game only he can provide,...
by Kevin Cook
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
An unforgettable look at how baseball families share our national pastime.
Baseball honors legacies—from cheering the home team to breaking in an old glove handed down from father to son. In The Dad Report, award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which...
by Jerry Pia
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
THE FIRST BOOK IN A NEW SERIES ABOUT YOUTH BASEBALL, Eric Plays Baseball: Opening Day! is about eight-year-old Eric’s long-awaited first baseball game of the season. A true-blue baseball lover with big visions about his future, Eric dreams of baseball every night—from hitting the game-winning...
by Marcella Parsons, Steven Hayes Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
See the international passion for baseball through the eyes of children who played. With these uniquely personal accounts, given by dozens of people from across the world, Sandlot Stories invites its readers into the lives of everyday people as they look back and remember the great American game.
The...
The Funniest Baseball Book Ever: The National Pastime's Greatest Quips, Quotations, Characters, Nicknames, and Pranks
The National Pastime's Greatest Quips, Quotations, Characters, Nicknames, and Pranks
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
That old baseball saying is right: It is a funny game. No other sport can compare to the national pastime's vast catalog of silly quips and quotations, unforgettable characters, memorable nicknames, and inventive pranks.The Funniest Baseball Book Ever captures it all between two covers. It's...
Baseball
A History of America's Favorite Game
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number
In Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old...
Game of Shadows
Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
In the summer of 1998 two of baseball leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, embarked on a race to break Babe Ruth’s single season home run record. The nation was transfixed as Sosa went on to hit 66 home runs, and McGwire 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants All-Star Barry Bonds...
Nine Innings
The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 -- inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, a seasoned writer and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a...
Stadium For Rent
Tampa Bay's Quest for Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This is the true, complicated story of the decades-long battle to bring a baseball team to Florida's West Coast. Back in print for the first time in two decades, Bob Andelman's detailed investigation has been enhanced with hundreds of political cartoons and photos that illustrate the community's...
Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting From 1920 to the Present
SABR Digital Library, #23
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Calling the Game: Baseball Broadcasting from 1920 to the Present is an exhaustive, meticulously researched history of bringing the national pastime out of the ballparks and into living rooms via the airwaves.
Every play-by-play announcer, color commentator, and ex-ballplayer who has presented...
Baseball
A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #29: A Big Day for Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Track the facts about baseball—with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #29: A Big Day for Baseball, they had lots of questions. When was baseball invented? What are the rules? Who was Jackie Robinson? Who are some other baseball greats? Find...
Baseball Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Why does a curveball curve? What is a can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?
In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed!...