Baseball category: 2631 books
by Giovanni Tommasini
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Those who play baseball are, in my opinion, in some ways special persons. Baseball isn't just any sport, it doesn't just form real athletes. Baseball forms particular men. Like Giovanni Tommasini. A baseball player and today a writer. He passed through that field with a particular shape called a diamond....
Black Baseball, Black Business
Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social...
by Joe DiMaggio
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1948) - Here is Joe DiMaggio’s inside story of baseball, an instructive and entertaining survey of the game written expressly for fan and player alike — the bleacher fan, the sand-lot player, the high school athlete, and anyone who has ever swung a bat or whooped it up for...
Baseball
The Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1989
In Baseball: The Golden Age, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills explore the glorious era when the game truly captured the American imagination, with such legendary figures as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb in the spotlight. Beginning with the formation of the two major leagues in 1903, when baseball...
1954
The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year-the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools-Larry Doby's Indians won an...
by Josh Leventhal
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The only book of its kind to tell the history of baseball, from its inception to the present day, through 100 key objects that represent the major milestones, evolutionary events, and larger-than-life personalities that make up the game
A History of Baseball in 100 Objects is a visual and historical...
by Peter E. Meltzer
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules.
Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E....
Newport Baseball History
America's Pastime in the City by the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts became the first professional baseball team to ever tie in a playoff series. By the 1900s, baseball was being played daily on open fields and diamonds throughout...
The Hidden Language of Baseball
How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine‑inning game, more than one thousand silent instructions are given—from catcher to...
Trading Manny
How a Father and Son Learned to Love Baseball Again
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The moving story of how a father and his young son recaptured their love of baseball—a winning testament to why the game matters and how it can still bring us together in spite of itself
In recent years something hasn’t been quite right with baseball. Ask Jim Gullo: he’ll tell you even...
Winning on the North Side: The 1929 Chicago Cubs
SABR Digital Library, #25
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
"The best team I ever played on was McCarthy's twenty-niners. It was strictly power all the way. No tricky baseball." — Cubs first baseman Charlie Grimm
SABR's newest e-book celebrates the 1929 Chicago Cubs, one of the most exciting teams in baseball history. Bashing their way to...
Baseball's Roaring Twenties
A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Following the 1919 Black Sox scandal, baseball needed men willing and able to pump life back into the game during tough times. Numerous ballplayers stepped forward and left their mark on the national pastime as it continued to thrive and grow during a decade that became known as the Roaring Twenties,...
Jimmie Foxx
The Pride of Sudlersville
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
While major league baseball gained popularity in large American cities at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was still relatively unseen by small town inhabitants who could only read about it in the newspaper or catch an exhibition game as major league teams traveled through the United States....
Characters from the Diamond
Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Baseball during the late 1800s and the Deadball Era was filled with aggressive, hard-nosed players who had no qualms about exhibiting belligerent behavior while tenaciously achieving victory on the diamond. These unique and eccentric individuals helped the game grow in popularity through their brilliance...