History

David Ortiz first won over the Fenway faithful in 2003 with his monstrous home runs, beaming smile, big hugs, and kind heart. The following fall, he proved heroic, belting walk-off hits in Games 4 and 5 of the ALCS in an epic series comeback over Jeter's...

A 2013 CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year and a Booklist Top Ten Sports Book of the Year When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere. With civic...

Nikkei Baseball examines baseball's evolving importance to the Japanese American community and the construction of Japanese American identity. Originally introduced in Japan in the late 1800s, baseball was played in the United States by Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932391916Author The Editors of Baseball AmericaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Baseball AmericaPublisher Baseball AmericaWeight(grams)...

There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places...

Like Jimmy Breslin's classic Can't Anyone Here Play This Game? on the 1962 Mets, author Ron Snyder discusses how the Baltimore Orioles became infamous for having the worst start of any team in Major League Baseball history."I covered all 21 losses during...

On April 4, 2012, the former Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball played their first official game under their new name-the Miami Marlins. Many in attendance were unaware, however, that the original Miami Marlins had played in their city more than 50...

The Yankees and New York baseball entered a golden age between 1949 and 1964, a period during which the city was represented in all but one World Series. While the Yankees dominated, however, the years were not so golden for the rest of baseball. In The...

In this work of cartoon revisionist history, Jason Novak explores the little-talked-about dead ball era of baseball-from 1900 to 1920, when a single ball was used for an entire game-and the men and women who shaped its course. Ranging from mischievous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416547990Author Timothy GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Orioles - originally the St. Louis Browns - rank among baseball's most storied teams. One of the fifteen celebrated team histories commissioned by G. P...

At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams...

Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.An exceptionally...

Phil Pepe spent years as the New York Daily News Yankee beat reporter, rubbing shoulders with countless Yankee greats, from Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. While he was there to report on the action that occurred on the...

"The Splendid Splinter," "Teddy Ballgame," "The Kid" no matter the nickname, Ted Williams was one of the most accomplished hitters in baseball history. He was the last man to hit .400 in a single season, a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time MVP and...

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...

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...

From Babe Ruth to Joe DiMaggio, Satchel Paige to Dizzy Dean, see all the greats step up to the plate in Baseball Legends Alphabet. Written and illustrated with All-Star quality, this book is sure to hit a home run with every lover of baseball.About the...

The all-time career leader in saves, with 652, Mariano Rivera is one of the greatest professional athletes in history. Since taking over the closer's role for the New York Yankees in 1997, until his retirement in 2013, Rivera saved 30 or more games in...

The 1930 Major League baseball season was both marvelous and horrendous, great for hitters, embarrassing for pitchers. In totality it was just this side of insane as an outlier among all seasons.Major League Baseball began with the founding of the...

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...

"It took me a day to learn [the knuckleball] and a lifetime to learn how to throw it for a strike."This quote, by pitcher and coach Charlie Hough, is the best way to understand baseball's most baffling and mysterious pitch. Not even the best...

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 Cumberland House Publishing,USWeight(grams)...

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

From the club's inception in the late '70s to winning the division for the first time in the '80s, Joe Carter's epic home run, the two World Series titles in the early '90s, the reign of Roy Halladay, Josh Donaldson's MVP season, and everything in...

This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging...

So You Think You're a Chicago Cubs Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Cubs baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you'll get details behind each stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.This...

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,...

The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern-era baseball's most popular expansion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and on to year-in and year-out contenders...

Recalling some of the greatest players in Red Sox history and some of their greatest games, author Chaz Scoggins traces back over 70 years, to the very start of the seminal Yawkey era, in Game of My Life Boston Red Sox. Beginning with Bobby Doerr, the...

"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...

On April 20, 1912, The Boston Red Sox played their first official game at Fenway Park. 27,000 fans were on hand to witness the Red Sox defeat the rival New York Highlanders-later known as the Yankees-7-6 in 11 innings. It was an event that may have made...

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) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 193mm *...

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...

The 50 Greatest Players in San Francisco/New York Giants History examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on one of the National League's most iconic and successful franchises. Using as measuring sticks the degree to which they...

So You Think You're a Boston Red Sox Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Red Sox baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you'll get details behind each stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons...

Unbreakable gives fans the fascinating stories behind incredible records and the players who made them and provides a basis for comparing players of the Deadball era with those of today. Most importantly, it gives the true baseball fan quantitative...