Baseball category: 2631 books
Cactus League
Spring Training
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Arizona�s baseball roots run long and deep, but the star of the show is the Cactus League. The state�s spring training history is filled with social, political, and cultural intrigue, not to mention a roster of baseball greats. Early on, fans watched Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, and the...
by Ray Negron, Sally Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
“You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.”—Yogi Berra
If it was not all so true, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public...
Baseball Team Names
A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeycombed Brooklyn in the early 1880s. (Residents were “trolley dodgers.”) From the Negro Leagues, there were the Pittsburgh Crawfords (sponsored early by...
by Tim Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Introducing the "WAR Portfolio" method to analyze the hidden standards of Hall of Fame admission, this book identifies tiers established by past inductions and into which tier current HOF candidates for both the BBWAA and Veterans Committee votes would fall. Also includes forecasts for many current MLB...
Gibson's Last Stand
The Rise, Fall, and Near Misses of the St. Louis Cardinals, 1969-1975
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
During star-pitcher Bob Gibson’s most brilliant season, the turbulent summer of 1968, he started thirty-four games and pitched every inning in twenty-eight of them, shutting out the opponents in almost half of those complete games. After their record-breaking season, Gibson and his teammates...
Havana Hardball
Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning spring training on the island. One...
The New York Mets Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball’s most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders of the 1980s and 1990s, New York’s National...
All the Babe's Men
Baseball's Greatest Home Run Seasons and How They Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Why are Americans obsessed with the home run in sports, business, and even life? What made the steroid era inevitable? Revisiting the great home run seasons of Babe Ruth through those of Barry Bonds, All the Babe's Men answers these and other provocative questions.Baseball, and particularly...
Becoming Manny
Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Authorized by the future Hall of Famer himself, and written by a clinical psychologist and an award-winning investigative journalist, Becoming Manny is the incredible story behind one of the greatest baseball sluggers of all time. Manny Ramirez ranks seventeenth in career home runs and eighth in career...
Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
One of the greatest outfielders of his generation, Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler (1898–1950) was working as a roof assembler in an auto plant in Michigan when he seized an opportunity to realize his dream of playing major league baseball. After toiling in the minor leagues for more than three years, he...
Jackie and Campy
The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball’s color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going far beyond...
The Immaculate Inning
Unassisted Triple Plays, 40/40 Seasons, and the Stories Behind Baseball's Rarest Feats
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a record. Covering a selection of the most unusual,...
The Bilko Athletic Club
The Story of the 1956 Los Angeles Angels
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
During the 1956 baseball season in the city of Los Angeles, Mickey Mantle’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record was matched only by the day-to-day drama of Steve Bilko’s exploits in the Pacific Coast League. While Mantle was winning the Triple Crown in the American League, Bilko...
Tom Yawkey
Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
2019 SABR Baseball Research Award
Few people have influenced a team as much as did Tom Yawkey (1903–76) as owner of the Boston Red Sox. After purchasing the Red Sox for $1.2 million in 1932, Yawkey poured millions into building a better team and making the franchise relevant again.
Although...