Essays Writings category: 369 books
You're the Umpire
152 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Umpire.
Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its second edition, offers "Routine Calls," which deal with scenarios and...
Miracle Year 1969
Amazing Mets and Super Jets
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sports fans in New York will always remember the incredible events of 1969. It was the year that two of the city’s underdog teams would rise above all expectations to be crowned world champions.
On January 12, 1969, the underdog New York Jets faced the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super...
The 3,000 Hit Club
Stories of Baseball's Greatest Hitters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Meet the members of the most exclusive club in Major League Baseball. There is no award, there are no ceremonies, but nothing can compare to the pride and glory felt by a player as he hits that miracle milestone: 3,000. Since Cap Anson first reached the mark in 1897, only twenty-eight baseball players...
Wait Till Next Year
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner...
by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s...
Baseball
A History of America's Favorite Game
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”—Lee Eisenberg, author of The Number
In Baseball, one of the great bards of America’s Grand Old...
The Roger Angell Baseball Collection
The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
From “the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball”—a definitive collection of three nonfiction classics chronicling MLB into the modern age (New York Post).
In these three classic volumes, legendary New Yorker sportswriter Roger Angell chronicles the triumphs, travails, heroes, and history...
Wild Pitches
Extra Innings from Out of My League
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The “best writer in a baseball uniform” follows his New York Times bestseller The Bullpen Gospels with more hilarious tales of life on and off the diamond (The New York Times).
As a major and not-so-major league pitcher, Dirk Hayhurst has learned to master more than striking out batters....
Is This a Great Game, or What?
From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball games and interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives.
In Is This a Great Game, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game,...
The Kid
The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr., comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for.
Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more...
The Game from Where I Stand
From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the Best Breakfast on the Road, an Inside View of a Ballplayer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An insider's revealing look at the hidden world of major league baseball
Doug Glanville, a former major league outfielder and Ivy League graduate, draws on his nine seasons in the big leagues to reveal the human side of the game and of the men who play it.
In The Game from Where I Stand,...
Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?
Answers to 101 of the Most Perplexing Baseball Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Chicken soup for the baseball lover's soul -- the inimitable Vince Staten takes you out to the ol' ballgame and answers all the baseball questions your dad hoped you wouldn't ask.
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2005
A story with a big heart about a boy, a coach, the game of baseball, and the game of life.
"There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever." There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's...
Living on the Black
Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues and both entered 2007 in search of individual...