Baseball category: 2631 books
The Best They Could Be
How the Cleveland Indians Became the Kings of Baseball, 1916-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Since the founding of professional baseball, few teams have risen above years of mediocrity only to see their fortunes interrupted by war and tragedy. Fewer still have then rallied to win the World Series. In the early twentieth century, the Cleveland Indians brought the world championship to their...
by Tucker Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
For half a century the St. Louis Browns were nothing short of spectacular ... when it came to futility. Whatever promise or hope or grandeur dreams held by the franchise and its fans after a second place finish in its inaugural season in St. Louis was quickly replaced by this abysmal reality: the...
by Wayne McCombs
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
The rich tradition and history of professional baseball are brought to life in Baseball in Tulsa. Wayne McCombs traces Tulsa's baseball past from the cow pastures of Indian Territory into the 21st century. The book documents the struggle many players endure in the coveted quest to become a major league...
Believeniks!
2005: The Year We Wrote a Book About the Mets
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
**Critic Ivan Felt and poet Harris Conklin are the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of baseball fandom. Or, perhaps, the Felix and Oscar of baseball fandom. Or the Pollock and de Kooning. Or the Bugs and Daffy.
The New York Mets are, of course, the New York Mets of baseball.**
In 2005, Felt...
Pitching in the Promised Land
A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach’s suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish...
The Baseball Glove
History, Material, Meaning, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball, and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made, and how does its manufacture square with the narratives...
Old Timers Day
As Told by God to Richard LoPresto
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Satan and God Almighty choose up sides for the ultimate fantasy baseball game of all time. One hundred of baseball's greatest players living and deceased play at historic Ebetts Field where the future of Mankind hangs in the balance.
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What if God and the Devil were to draft...
Van Lingle Mungo: The Man, The Song, The Players
SABR Digital Library, #22
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Just as 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants pitcher Van Lingle Mungo was surprised that Dave Frishberg wrote a song around his name back in 1969, so he might have been surprised to come across this book in the year 2014. Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" listed 37 ballplayers...
by Phillip Mahony
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Baseball is a very complicated sport. Every facet of the game from tagging up to stealing bases to intentional walks goes back to the duel between pitcher and batter. This book, like no other work available or any single website, explains baseball from scratch, while also educating the reader as to its...
Possessed By Baseball
Is there life after baseball?
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The daughter of a semi-professional baseball player left home at the age of eighteen and took a forty-one year hiatus from baseball. What happened forty-one years later to turn her into a raving baseball fanatic, and what valuable life-changing lessons did she learn?
Base Ball's 19th Century “Winter” Meetings 1857-1900
SABR Digital Library, #62
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
BASE BALL'S 19TH CENTURY "WINTER" MEETINGS looks at the business meetings of base ball's earliest days (not all of which were in the winter). As John Thorn writes in his Foreword, "This monumental volume traces the development of the game from its birth as an organized institution to...
The 1986 New York Mets: There Was More Than Game Six
SABR Digital Library, #35
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
One of two companion volumes of biographies of the players, coaches, announcers, and others involved with the 1986 World Series, one on each team, the Mets and the Red Sox. One of the most dramatic World Series in baseball history, the 1986 series featured many more twists and turns than just "the...
Baseball's Business: The Winter Meetings: 1958-2016 (Volume Two)
SABR Digital Library, #53
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
The Winter Meetings have been Organized Baseball's annual offseason ritual since the early days of the game. This is SABR's second volume on the history of the winter meetings, covering the years 1958 through 2016, and including a special section on the Negro Leagues winter meetings. The latter years...
How to Play Baseball
A Parent's Role in Their Child's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
How to Play Baseball: The Parent's Role in Their Child's Journey is like a toolbox full of valuable information for parents, coaches or anyone who is in a position of responsibility for young athletes. The lessons, anecdotes and techniques that are a part of every chapter are drawn from the extensive...