Baseball

Play, watch, and understand America's favorite pastime Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime.

Play, watch, and understand America's favorite pastime Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime.

A loving look at the old ball game, from the cartoonists at The New Yorker America's national pastime engages fans and fanatics across the country and around the world.

A loving look at the old ball game, from the cartoonists at The New Yorker America's national pastime engages fans and fanatics across the country and around the world.

Harry Fisher was a good-looking farm kid from southwestern Ontario, that fertile breeding ground of Canadian baseball stars.

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending.

From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies.

Themost entertaining and comprehensiveguide to every baseball fan's dream road tripincluding every new ballpark since the 2004 editionrevised and completely updated!

Hack Wilsons record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle.

Twenty top Major League Baseball players share stories about life off the field and their favorite foodswith nearly 100 full-color photos and more than 60 easy-to-make recipesBaseball and food are two of lifes uncomplicated pleasures, stirring up sizzling passion across all generations.

An authoritative look back at the decade that brought Americas favorite game into the modern era.

A collection ofghost storiescollected from baseballplayers, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, whichexplores the sometimes amusing and sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal.

The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.

One of baseball's most insightful commentators picks the 50 greatest Red Sox players of all time.

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball.

Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia.

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball.

A 2012 Top Ten Sports Book as selected by Booklist, winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal and Larry Ritter Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, and finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, Fenway 1912 is the remarkable story of Fenway's very first year.

Brewers-Orioles, 6/10/82: "e;An astounding piece of sports journalism .

San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller From the speedy rise of the Big Three to their stunning breakup, Urban's book says it all.

"e;We re all winners, as Dayn Perry serves as our trusted guide on this idiosyncratic but profoundly informative walking tour of the great teams and players of the last few decades.

"e;Cecilia Tan has written a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a book.

"e;An extraordinary book .

The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner For 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees.

The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legendBaseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is one of baseball's endearing greats, a tremendously talented and charismatic center fielder who hit 660 career homeruns, collected 3,283 hits, knocked in 1,903 runs, won 12 Gold Glove Awards and appeared in 24 All-Star games.

"e;The most valuable team player in sports"e; shows you what "e;teamwork"e; really means What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "e;team player"e; as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas?

Seldom does a sports biographyespecially a page-turnerso comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.

The author of The Long Ball revisits the drama of the 1966 World Series in which the underdog Baltimore Orioles take on the favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ahead of his induction into the Hall of Fame.

The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perrona white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Bostonand hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over.

The remarkable story of the 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals told by the Washington Post writer who followed the team most closely.

An authoritative, ';must-read' (Keith Hernandez) biography of Hall of Fame pitching legend Tom Seaver, still the greatest player ever to wear a Mets jersey, by a journalist who knew him well.

During eight seasons of major league baseball, pitcher Dave Dravecky learned more than the importance of getting ahead in the count or wasting a pitch when he had the batter in the hole with an 0-2 count.

Want to know what really happened?

What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston?

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A study of some of baseball's best & worst decisions, what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how they shaped the game.

"e;The best baseball book I've read in years.

A New York Times bestsellerForeword by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide.

The Story of the Greatest Yankees Teamand Baseball Teamof All Time New York, 1936.

Stefan Fatsis sends his stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else?

"e;One of the best baseball books ever written.

A "e;fascinating and irresistible"e; blend of science and sports that reveals what a baseball (or bat, or player) in motion does-and why (The New York Times Book Review).

From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox.

Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways.

A revealing account of the great Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio from the man who knew him best in the last ten years of his life';a rare, intimate portraitthat pries open Joltin' Joe's perpetually buttoned-up privacy' (The New York Times) with stories about the Yankees, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and other celebrities.