History

From when the Phillies franchise was established in 1883 and a rookie manager led the team to its first National League pennant in 1915 to the World Series titles in 1980 and 2008, Larry Shenk, a longtime Phillies executive, provides insight into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600789335Author Gary PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 353g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496695369Author Nelson YomtovFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634990196Author Jim MaggioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634990028Author Jim MaggioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 408g

During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary...

The competition level in Little League has never been tougher, but the kids on the Jackie Robinson West team faced their own set of challenges on and off the baseball diamond. The Jackie Robinson West team takes their fans and followers on a...

DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America...

The Bucs is the story of a baseball club. The word "story" is purposely used in lieu of the more common designation "history." A baseball club rarely has a history in the strictest sense of the word. Instead, the record of its formation and growth...

Written by veteran sportswriter and Cardinals insider Rob Rains, Taking Flight answers two basic questions - what makes the Cardinals different from other organizations, and why are they so successful? Perhaps the most important man in the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629370248Author Jim KaatFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 336g

Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important,and...

When John Farrell was introduced as the new Red Sox manager in the fall of 2012, he took over a last-place team lacking talent and cohesion. A franchise that once made Boston proud had become an embarrassment. Just one year later, the Red Sox have won...

The incredible performances of Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn on July 2, 1963, would forever link their names together in baseball history, and this dual biography of these athletes weaves that 1963 contest throughout the narrative in a book that is sure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600787751Author Ira BerkowFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 380g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600781766Author David MageeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 1150g

The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless. Bats break, balls carom wildly, personalities clash, and playing fields are invaded by uninvited guests. Mudville Madness is for baseball fans who seek...

They had two future Hall of Famers, the last pitcher to win thirty games, and a supporting cast of some of the most peculiar individuals ever to play in the majors. But more than that, the 1968 Detroit Tigers symbolize a lost era in baseball. It was a...

In late 1913, the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America's wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real...

In early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio, a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets...

The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572438637Author Phil PepeFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Triumph Books (IL)Publisher Triumph Books (IL)Weight(grams) 1070g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572438354Author Athlon Sports Athlon SportsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Triumph Books (IL)Publisher Triumph Books (IL)Weight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572437227Author Whitey FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 662g

This bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After being voted the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner, Sparky Lyle was rewarded for his efforts by being benched. The Yankees, a leader of free agency,...

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.Book...

As a part of popular culture, sport has made a deep impression in American life. And nowhere is this clearer than in baseball, the game that seems to transcend generations and has made its way into our language and literature. In The National Game, John...

John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years; he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over time. The National Game chronicles baseball's popular successes and financial...

A fascinating history celebrating Black players in Major League Baseball from the 1800s through today, with special insight into what the future may hold. In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past,...

This book is the exciting story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history-the Black Sox scandal-continued for over a year following the "fixed" World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. It is a story of gamblers and crooks;...

An entertaining look back at the most memorable year in Boston sports history. The year 1986 was a special one for Boston sports fans. Surprising everyone, the Patriots, Celtics, and Red Sox played in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series, the...

I really do believe I would be way up at the top of everything if I hadn't been injured. When I was healthy, I really believe I was the best of anyone I ever saw play.-Mickey Mantle, reflecting on his career Mickey Mantle is one of baseball's all-time...

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees’ then reclaiming of the city and the Mets attempts to rebuild from...

The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting...

The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibility—the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a...

Relive the games, moves, and players of the hard-hitting team that won the 1986 World Series. Vin Scully called the tenth-inning groundball in Game Six of the 1986 World Series-Mets versus Red Sox-that sealed a comeback, fueled a curse, and turned a...

Hastily formed in 1883 as a rival, third major league, the Union Association upset the moguls of the baseball world and disrupted the status quo. Backed by Henry V. Lucas, an impetuous 26-year-old millionaire from St. Louis, the UA existed for one...

Night games transformed the business of professional baseball, as the smaller, demographically narrower audiences able to attend daytime games gave way to larger, more diversified crowds of nighttime spectators. Many ball club owners were initially...

In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the world’s greatest industrial baseball league. Appealing to Major League Baseball players looking to avoid service in the Great War, teams employed “ringers” like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson in...

Pedro Martinez. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramirez. By 2000, Dominican baseball players were in every Major League clubhouse, and regularly winning every baseball award. In 2002, Omar Minaya became the first Dominican general manager of a Major League team. But...