Baseball category: 2631 books
by Mark Dawn
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Every new baseball season, there are new rounds of fresh talent that will be drafted into the sport. These prospects are pulled from various leagues and groups from around the country where they are recognized by their talent. Sometimes the prospects are found in the formal way, but may be found in...
by Robert Tandy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Crackerjack Gang is a collection of the most unorthodox, but sincerely exceptional, group of baseball players I coached over the last twenty (20) years. If you coach long enough, in any sport, you come to appreciate the true Crackerjacks every year on your team. Crackerjack players make the long...
The House That Ruth Built
A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923
Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even...
Praying for Gil Hodges
A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On a steamy hot Sunday, the Reverend Herbert Redmond was celebrating Mass at a church in Brooklyn, when he startled his congregation thus: "It's far too hot for a sermon. Keep the Commandments and say a prayer for Gil Hodges."
Praying for Gil Hodges is built around a detailed reconstruction...
by Steven Travers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Nineteen sixty-two—it's been called “the end of innocence,” as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam.In baseball, 1962 was a thrilling season. Five years prior the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had...
After Many a Summer
The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
By the mid-1950s, New York had been the unrivaled capital of America’s national pastime for a century, a place where baseball was followed with truly fanatical fervor. The city’s three teams—the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers—had over the previous decade rewarded...
Get in the Game
8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Baseball?s all-time Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr., retired from baseball in 2001 after breaking countless records, including Lou Gehrig?s record for consecutive games played. Now, in Get in the Game, he gives us his insights on hard work and success that can be applied on and off the field, based on stories...
One Base at a Time
How I Survived PTSD and Found My Field of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
On July 10, 1981, David Mellor was just a baseball-crazed kid, a star high school pitcher preparing to go to college and dreaming of one day taking the mound in Fenway Park for his beloved Boston Red Sox. His dream was derailed as he crossed the parking lot of a McDonald’s. He heard the racing engine,...
Pops
The Willie Stargell Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A touching biography of the beloved Pittsburgh Pirate Willie “Pops” Stargell, this life story documents the 21-year, Hall of Fame career of one of the most celebrated and revered players in the history of Major League Baseball. Beginning with his difficult childhood and revealing his encounters...
Out at Home
The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball's First Openly Gay Player
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first—and only—openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league’s color barrier. This...
Stealing Games
How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of...
Mudville Madness
Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless. Bats break, balls carom wildly, personalities clash, and playing fields are invaded by uninvited guests.
Mudville Madness is for baseball fans who seek something beyond the standard boxscores—something...
The Champions of Philadelphia
The Greatest Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers Teams
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Since the start of the twentieth century, Philadelphia’s professional teams in four major sports have won a combined total of seventeen championships. All of Philadelphia’s current teams-the Phillies in baseball, the Eagles in football, the Flyers in ice hockey, and the 76ers in basketball-have...
Pudge
The Biography of Carlton Fisk
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Carlton Fisk retired having played in more games and hit more home runs than any other catcher before him. A baseball superstar in the 1970s and 80s, Fisk was known not just for his dedication to the sport and tremendous plays but for the respect with which he treated the game.
A homegrown...