Baseball category: 2631 books
by E. Ethelbert Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Here are poems that celebrate and interpret the game by one of America's finest poets. They are for everyone who has experienced the magic released when three holy things come together: bat, ball and glove.
"Ethelbert Miller is one of the most significant and influential poets of our time."
--Gwendolyn...
Scouting and Scoring
How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball
Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and...
The Cloudbuster Nine
The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, one of the nation's strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a...
Play Ball
The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Unlike any book before it, Play Ball takes on a national pasttime—and baseball will never be the same again.
Baseball is the greatest of all American games. No other sport has the tradition, the mythology, the heroes, and the heroics. Yet baseball is also in the midst of an upheaval unprecedented...
The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats
In Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything...
by Andy Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words reveals the hilarity and magic of Little League baseball.
Often called “the funniest tale ever told,” this story will have you laughing until you cry, while warming your soul, reminding you of childhood and a simpler time.
In 1970, eleven-year-old Andy...
Baseball's Creation Myth
Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false...
A Coach's Manual for Beginners
Coach's Pocket Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
This book is a compilation of my observations and experience over the years; it represents my personal philosophy of the game and coaching. As such, against the dictates of proper English language usage I have used personal pronouns ad nauseam because it is my experience and my philosophy.
Much...
The Arm
Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.
Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five...
Baseball Hits and Bible Bits
Trading a Diamond for a Crown
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
In Baseball Hits and Bible Bits, pastor and former Minor League pitcher Frank D. Minton shares unforgettable stories and anecdotes about two of his great loves in lifebaseball and the Bible. When Minton was eleven years old, God called him to preach; that call to serve the Lord would never leave his...
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team
It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in...
Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Tim McCarver, major league baseball's premier analyst, has been surprising and delighting viewers for years with his remarkable insight. Fans who once were content to merely watch baseball were stimulated into wanting to think baseball as well. McCarver brings to the booth a combination of twenty-one...
Sparky and Me
My Friendship with Sparky Anderson and the Lessons He Shared About Baseball and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In the tradition of Tuesdays With Morrie, Dan Ewald pens a memoir of his friendship with legendary Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, the man who taught him not only the nuances of baseball, but the importance of life's unwritten rules.
Few sports figures, regardless of their position, have generated...
When Chicago Ruled Baseball
The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series that pitted the heavily favored Cubs of the National League against the hardscrabble American League champion White Sox. Now, more than a century later,...