History

This work covers one of the most controversial pennant races in baseball history. The Brooklyn Dodgers were leading the pennant race by 13 games in early August when the New York Giants installed a powerful telescope in one of their clubhouse windows...

The teams were the Marylands and Terrapins, the Drydocks and Pastimes, the Black Sox, the Elite Giants, and, of course, the Orioles. Players had names like Mule Suttles, Pee Wee Butts, and "Twitchy Dick" Porter-but also Wee Willie Keeler and John McGraw,...

This book follows the Rookies of the Year through their initial major league seasons and on to their subsequent achievements. Robert Bloss compares players by their career accomplishments: some Rookies of the Year eventually entered the Hall of Fame...

In this richly illustrated volume, experience the visual panorama of America's great ballparks-with photos, vintage postcards, illustrations, and team mementos, all displayed in a lively scrapbook style. Nothing stirs the soul of a baseball...

Baseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these differences and help fans gain a greater appreciation for Nippon...

Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful new history of the game.Whitey Ford, Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, Bill Rigney, and Ralph Branca tell stories...

Using the colorful and tumultuous 1960s as a backdrop, acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen's Spirit of '67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series That Captivated America shows how the Red Sox and Cardinals waged an epic battle for baseball...

The best-known story of integration in baseball is Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color line in 1947 after coming up through the minor leagues the previous year. His story, however, differs from those of the many players who integrated the...

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, baseball's minor leagues cancelled their seasons. A few independent leagues tried abbreviated schedules, but all Major League affiliates shut down--for the first time in more than 120 years. Since then, Major League...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668030929Author John MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon & Schuster

Baseball has had its fair share of one-and-out champions, but few clubs have dominated the sport for any great length of time. Given the level of competition and the expansive length of the season, it is a remarkable accomplishment for a team to make...

The unlikely story of one of baseball's greatest comeback seasons The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place as late as mid-July of 1914. This rough gang was led by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472682Author Joe PosnanskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 23mm

Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader's account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252046414Author Don ZmindaFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

Winner of the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title When Baseball before We Knew It was first published in 2005, it shattered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088490Author Don ZmindaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies...

Starting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever published about both teams during the late 1990s and the...

A collection of quotes compiled by the author of The House that Ruth Built, Kelly Bennett, with images by Stuart Dressler and Brent Stevens"Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it." -Babe Ruth With forewords by...

Ron Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with an outsized personality, entertaining many, offending a few, and hiding behind a cheerful and outrageous persona until...

If there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher "Christy" Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamblers' benefit. Mathewson changed all that. When he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476694368Author George BoziwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 329Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476695976Author Phil CoffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

This book chronicles the history of the Philadelphia Athletics, the first real dynasty in Major League Baseball. The focus of the book is the 1931 season, where Philadelphia, led by is superstar pitcher, Lefty Grove, had the best season in franchise...

In Diamond Duels: Baseball's Greatest Matchups, we take a magnifying glass to some of the game's most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers, played out over breezy spring evenings, hot summer afternoons, and chilly fall evenings...

"Anyone who has love for the game of baseball will enjoy this remarkable book." Library Journal, Starred ReviewIn Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless...

A fascinating look back at the incredible lives and careers of Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, part of the second generation of Black ballplayers who followed in the footsteps of Jackie Robinson.Professional baseball has featured a bevy of superstars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960819093Author Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Society for American Baseball ResearchPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476696225Author Chris JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

A fascinating look back on baseball's humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominated the game.The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of "base...

Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don't even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs. Reds was the best rivalry in...

Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball. This is a survey of...

Professional baseball has always consisted of a variety of characters, from likeable youngsters to notorious rebels. From 1871 to the present, the sport has witnessed the likes of Germany Schaeffer, an infielder with a penchant for "stealing" first base;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291768Author Bill BallewFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598511239Author Vince GuerrieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Gray & Company PublishersPublisher Gray & Company PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103312Author Richard A. SantillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

In Tumultuous Times in America's Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive examination of major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball from the integration of...

Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340043Author Frank M WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...