Baseball category: 2631 books
Smart Baseball
How Professionals Play the Mental Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach.
Looking at everything from a player's confidence to...
The Golden Era of Major League Baseball
A Time of Transition and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
When Jackie Robinson made his debut at Ebbets Field on opening day in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league team with a black player anywhere in its organization. By the end of the Golden Era of baseball, a period in and around the 1950s, there would be an unprecedented number of...
The Baseball Codes
Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments.
Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects...
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders
A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS.
BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME.
Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away....
Ahead of the Curve
Inside the Baseball Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A delight for baseball lovers” (Kirkus Reviews) and “one of the most significant baseball books of the year” (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball’s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic.
Forget...
by Joseph Janczak
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Big names have always dominated baseball, and one of the biggest in recent history is Roger Clemensùthe Rocket. As a baseball great, he has shown what it means to succeed, both on the field and off, in his near quarter century of major-league service.The Rocket: Baseball Legend Roger Clemens journeys...
Baseball's Starry Night
Reliving Major League Baseball's 2011 Wild Card Night of Shock and Awe
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Baseball's Starry Night gives you a fan's-eye view of a night that many have called the most exciting night in the history of Major League Baseball. Going beyond a standard retelling of the balls and strikes and homers and webgems, the book hears from 20 fans in their own words. Loyal fans of the...
by Dirk Hayhurst
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his gun-toting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk Hayhurst steps out of the bullpen to deliver the best pitch of his career--a raw, unflinching and surprisingly moving account of his life in the...
by Mark Rucker, Frank Ceresi
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Dubbed "America's Game" by Walt Whitman, baseball has been enjoyed in our nation's capital by everyone from young boys playing street stickball to Presidents throwing out the inaugural first pitch of the season. Just 13 years after Alexander Cartwright codified baseball's rules, the Washington Nationals...
Just Baseball
A Practical, Down-to-Earth Guide to the World of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
That sound, the first crack of the bat.
Every year in early spring a special kind of joy comes over those who love America’s favorite pastime, baseball. This feeling is no different for the millions of kids who dream of greatness when they pick up a bat and make their way to the plate.
In...
Clearing the Bases
The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Who was the best right-hander of the '60s, Bob Gibson or Juan Marichal? Who is the greatest starting pitcher of all time? At his peak, who was more valuable, Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams? If Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, and Roger Clemens had pitched at the...
by Baseball Prospectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The 2018 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.
PLAY BALL! The 23rd edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several...
The SABR Baseball List & Record Book
Baseball's Most Fascinating Records and Unusual Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
From the authority on baseball research and statistics comes a vast and fascinating compendium of unique baseball lists and records.
The SABR Baseball List & Record Book is an expansive collection of pitching, hitting, fielding, home run, team, and rookie records not available online or in...
The Numbers Game
Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Most baseball fans, players and even team executives assume that the National Pastime's infatuation with statistics is simply a byproduct of the information age, a phenomenon that blossomed only after the arrival of Bill James and computers in the 1980s. They couldn't be more wrong.
In this...