Essays & Writings

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812978704Author George VecseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." -New York Post * "Stellar." -The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." -BookPage (starred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358358930Author Jason TurbowFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317372Author Keith O'BrienFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Boston Red Sox are the most winning baseball team in the 21st century with four World Series titles, and they're not slowing down any time soon. Two of the most prominent organizations in Boston, The Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox, combine to...

This real-time, historical record of the New York Yankees from their hometown newspaper allows you to experience over a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of Major League Baseball's most successful team.There has never been a team that has won...

With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball's Renaissance man and its commissioner. In A GREAT AND...

From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. George Plimpton had the chance to answer every baseball fan's question: could I strike out a major league star? Out of My League chronicles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971390Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the "most significant half decade in the history of the game." The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Nolan Ryan, among others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399575952Author Barry SvrlugaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

No one sees baseball like Joe Maddon. He sees it through his trademark glasses and irrepressible wit. Raised in the "shot and beer" town of Hazleton, PA, and forged by 15 years in the minors, Maddon over 19 seasons in Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Anaheim has...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933060729Author Bill SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)...

Examining baseball not just as a game but as a social, historical, and political force, this collection of sixteen essays looks at the sport from the perspectives of race, sexual orientation, economic power, social class, imperialism, nationalism, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310367383Author Ethan D. BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 138mm * 19mm

In the rich history of Major League Baseball (MLB), a transformative journey is unfolding...Women are rising to prominent positions in team management, coaching, and leadership.An increasing number of female coaches and front office leaders are making...

This revised edition is an anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered baseball's Negro Leagues in the first part of the 20th century. The writers include Sam Lacy, Wendell Smith, Frank A. Young, Joe Bostic, Chester L. Washington, W...

This is an anthology of 17 papers, eight presented at the Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in June 2003 and nine presented at the Sixteenth in June 2004. Selected from over 60 papers delivered at both symposia, the...

"Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I would love to get my hands on."-Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062911612Author Cal Ripken, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Spring training, a time when every team is in first place, is an American tradition dating back to the early years of the twentieth century. William Zinsser vividly brings to life the unique, once-a-year relationship between Bradenton, Florida, and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440508779Author Bill GeistFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces...

This study of the Detroit Tigers over a half-century demonstrates how baseball has reflected the fortunes of America's postwar urban society. Patrick Harrigan shows that the declining fortunes of this franchise have been inextricably linked with those of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877455790Author Hank DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa Press

Baseball players as a rule aren't known for documenting their experiences on the diamond. During his time as manager of the Detroit Tigers from 1949 to 1951, Red Rolfe, however, recorded daily accounts of each game, including candid observations about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423499473Author Bernie WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

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 image, the Boss-driven by a compassionate...

The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732355569Author Baseball ProspectusFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Baseball ProspectusPublisher Baseball ProspectusWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581826371Author Chris DeLucaFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Cumberland House Publishing,USPublisher Cumberland House Publishing,USWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116813Author Matt McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide will help readers young and old fully understand and comprehend the statistics that are the present and future of our national pastime.We all know what a ...

Who never heard of Johnny Vander Meer's back-to-back no-hitters? Or Christy Mathewson's three shutouts in one World Series? Or Steve Carlton winning 27 games for a last-place team that won a total of only 59 games? These and a variety of other pitching...

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's...

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156013871Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598532173Author Red SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 803gDimensions(mm)...

Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned...