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How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastimeIn discovering how and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime, George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870207884Author Bob BuegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368077651Author Nick DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056026Author Frederic J. FrommerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

Babe Ruth was 40 and flabby in 1935. His days as a strapping, fearsome home run hitter were behind him. Baseball had flourished into big business through Ruth's swing and swag and didn't need him anymore. His dream was to become a manager but the New...

No season in the history of baseball has matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the Washington...

Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581825350Author Alan RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Cumberland House Publishing,USPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062872111Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Here is the first in-depth account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. In the late nineteenth century resourceful black businessmen founded ball teams that became the Negro Leagues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600786785Author Bill BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 381g

For almost 50 years, the Cleveland Indians were a joke. They had won the 1948 World Series with one of the greatest teams of all time, but had not been to the playoffs since 1954 (losing to the New York Giants in the World Series). Even the Major League...

What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They have all worn #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players.In this newly updated edition, Red...

When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American...

A compelling memoir at the intersection of baseball and American history Cleon Jones has never forgotten where he came from. As a child, growing up in a Mobile, Alabama shotgun house with no electricity or running water, he yearned to follow the path of...

Superstition has been a part of baseball from the beginning. From good luck charms to human mascots to ritual statues of Babe Ruth to the curse of Colonel Sanders, there may be almost as many superstitions as players (or fans). Drawing on social science,...

“A great and insightful” (Keith Hernandez, New York Mets legend and broadcaster) New York Times bestselling account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets—a last-place team that turned it all around in just one season—told by ’69...

That sound, the first crack of the bat.Every year in early spring a special kind of joy comes over those who love America’s favorite pastime, baseball. This feeling is no different for the millions of kids who dream of greatness when they pick up a bat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496696717Author Nelson YomtovFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 181g

So You Think You’re a Kansas City Royals Fan? will test and expand your knowledge of one of Major League Baseball’s most successful expansion franchises. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each—stories...

America’s foremost sportswriters and other personalities offer their favorite memories of Yankee Stadium, the world’s most famous ballpark. In Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, editor Alex Belth of BronxBanterBlog.com collects personal essays by some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476688770Author Bob LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600789205Author Chris DonnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 276g

The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron-a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston-and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and...

Although many people know Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as the "birthplace of Little League Baseball," it is a city with a rich professional baseball tradition. Since the earliest days of the Pennsylvania State Association in the nineteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250828354Author Willie MaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 137g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375421839Author Kevin BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 161mm *...

Baseball Photography Classics"It's a great addition to your coffee table, or as a gift to the baseball fan in your life." baseballmusings.com#1 New Release in Photojournalism, Photo Essays, Statistics, History, Sports Photography, and SportsPicturing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743268936Author Jonathan EigFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, one of the nation's strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams,...

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani's dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he...

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...

An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts, and stories, Harvey Frommer evokes the Murderers' Row of...

America's Classic Ballparks takes you out to the ballgame with an interactive tour through America's ballpark landmarks.Baseball parks are as American as apple pie and America's Classic Ballparks commemorates nine ballparks guaranteed to spark nostalgia...

In Taking in a Game, Joseph A. Reaves examines the development of baseball in Korea, the Philippines, Mainland China, and Taiwan, as well as the more widely known story of baseball in Japan. In this entertaining and informed account, Reaves covers...

From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286824Author Seth MnookinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060884260Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563170Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm