Baseball category: 2631 books
by Jim O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary,...
by Roger Angell
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This New York Times bestseller “takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight” (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal).
Acclaimed New Yorker writer Roger Angell’s first book on baseball, The Summer Game, originally published in 1972, is a...
by Dave Bidini
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game was introduced...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the...
One Day at Fenway
A Day in the Life of Baseball in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Saturday, August 30, 2003 -- Yankees versus Red Sox, Fenway Park. Not just a special day in a great rivalry but also a unique one in the long tradition of baseball writing. For on that day, Steve Kettmann worked with a team of top reporters to chronicle everything that happened, from the point of...
Paul Lebowitz's 2011 Baseball Guide
A Complete Guide to the 2011 Baseball Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In depth analysis of all 30 teams with sections dedicated to: management, starting pitching, bullpens, lineups, bench, prospects and predictions of what will happen this upcoming season.
Which managers might be fired and who might replace them?
What players will be available via trade?
Whose...
This Is Our Time!
The 2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants. The Inside Story: Improbable. Wild. Unforgettable.
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Baseball has life encoded within it as completely as DNA does: the world’s deepest wisdom, edgiest laughter, joys and sorrows. Among the millions who chase baseball’s dream, though, only a few scale the sport’s most rarified heights-not only in terms of victory, but in becoming true selfless...
Strangers in the Bronx
DiMaggio, Mantle, and the Changing of the Yankee Guard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Rare is the athlete who captures the imagination of a generation. In Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, sports culture had two such figures. Undoubtedly, DiMaggio and Mantle are two of the most revered names in baseball literature. However, there is one particular moment that has been overlooked by baseball...
Birdie
Confessions of a Baseball Nomad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
During his 65-year career in professional baseball, Birdie Tebbetts was a player, coach, manager, scout, and executive and nobody knew the game the way Birdie did. From Hank Greenberg to Reggie Jackson, Birdie worked with all the brightest stars in baseball's constellation and this biography is a...
Juicing the Game
Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
In Juicing the Game, award-winning journalist Howard Bryant offers the only big-picture look at the insidious manner in which performance-enhancing drugs infested baseball as the game’s leaders stood idly by, reaping the rewards.
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism with interviews...
Carrying Jackie's Torch
The Players Who Integrated Baseball-And America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with...
by Ira Berkow, Jim Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Casey Stengel may well be the greatest personality the game of baseball has ever known. But he was much more than that. Stengel was also a brilliant on-field strategist and handler of ballplayers. Compiled through exhaustive research and countless interviews, The Gospel According to Casey is jam-packed...
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but...
by Peter Golenbock
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Bums is the intimate story of one of the most beloved franchises ever, told by the men who lived it, and brilliantly compiled by the master of baseball oral histories, Peter Golenbock. From the building of Ebbets Field through those first dismal decades; to Durocher and Rickey and the development...