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The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams together year after year. The 1976 Cincinnati Reds were one of the last to be considered a dynasty, and this book documents the season of one of the...

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Finalist for the 2023 CASEY Award 2024 SABR Seymour Medal Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors DigestBaseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century,...

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One of the most popular players in Cincinnati Reds history, Ernie "Schnozz" Lombardi played 1931-1947 as an eight-time All-Star catcher. A big man with huge hands, a cannon for an arm and a namesake nose, he held two National League batting titles and a...

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From its colorful and scandalous beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has evolved into the most prestigious-and contentious-individual honor in the sport. No award means more to the players, the media, or the...

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While much has been written about the legendary players and managers of the Deadball Era (1901-1919), far less attention has been paid to baseball club owners like Charles Ebbets who put together the teams and built the era's legendary ball parks. In...

Road-Tripping the South Atlantic League: A Guide to the Teams, Ballparks and Cities, is a comprehensive guide for planning Minor League Baseball Road Trips. The primary focus of the book is on the teams, ballparks, and cities of the South Atlantic League...

Profiles more than ninety current Baseball umpires, summarizing their professional history, and charting their performance at home plate from 2007 through 2010. By introducing umpires as individuals and encouraging a rational discussion of their work,...

The history of Major League doubleheaders is presented in this volume, beginning with their inception as a way to make up missed games, to their current decline as a result of changes in society. The role of the doubleheader as a celebration of holidays...

The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro League teams and white professional teams in one league. It operated from October through February each year from the early part of the century until the late 1940s and generally...

Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed ""The Heavenly Twins."" This book details their...

In 1945 the most famous curse in sports was placed on the Chicago Cubs when Bill Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field. Though Sianis purchased two tickets for the fourth game of the World Series against Detroit, the goat's stench led to...

In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch working on both,...

Is it bedtime for America's pastime? In recent years, action on and off the diamond has left some fans predicting baseball's imminent death - or claiming to have already attended the funeral. This book refutes those claims with an in-depth look at...

Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball and Literature in American Culture has provided a venue for scholars to present their research on baseball as literary subject matter and cultural institution. Nineteen essays presented at...

The New York Yankees' history is filled with great achievements, outstanding performances, and unprecedented success. For more than 40 years, from 1921 to 1964, the Yankees and their fans had much to cheer about - the team won 29 pennants and 20 world...

The 14th annual conference held to coincide with the Baseball Hall of Fame awards in Cooperstown, New York explores the games myths, legends and tall tales. The papers discuss mythic heros, media mythology, myth and mystery, and myths in progress.Book...

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Baseball followers have been perpetuating, debating, and debunking myths for nearly two centuries, producing a treasury of baseball stories and "facts." Yet never before have these elements of baseball history been carefully scrutinized and...

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