Baseball

As the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team's ups and downs.

In celebration of the 100th issue of Who's Who in Baseballone of the game's most venerable publicationscomes a centurys worth of the annuals iconic covers, insightful breakdowns of the players featured on those covers, and informative accounts of the baseball history tied to each year's issue.

Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 bySports Collectors DigestIn the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships.

Sidestepping the inflated egos and scandal that have infiltrated many men's sports, college female softball players exhibit power and grace on the field as well as camaraderie, high achievement and vulnerability off the field.

Wenn dein Verstand nein zur Liebe sagt, und das Bauchgefühl ja.

Sweet Lou and the Cubs chronicles from the inside-out Lou Piniella's stirring and celebrated quest to reverse the team's fortunes after a record 100 years without a World Series championship.

David Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far.

Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words reveals the hilarity and magic of Little League baseball.

This book analyzes how sportswriters have discussed issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual identity, age and class within professional baseball from 1998 to the present.

Most fans know Ralph Kiner as the New York Mets' long-tenured color commentator, but as a player he was one of the most feared hitters in the game; this autobiography allows Kiner to reveal his life story and to share his learned opinion about many topics affecting the game today.

The Caribbean Series is a unique regional baseball event, the oldest of its kind.

Taken for granted by fans today, Sunday baseball was made possible only after decades of contention between evangelical Sabbatarians seeking enforcement of antiquated "e;blue laws,"e; and an alliance of "e;Pro-Sabs"e; who prevailed against them with strategy and tenacity.

For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts.

The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd--also known as "e;Big Poison"e; and "e;Little Poison"e;--played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s.

"e;Our community has continued to grow exponentially, thanks to those who inspire the next generation.

Dear readers, this book gives you a real opportunity to have a steady income for months, until the end of the sports season, if you strictly follow and follow the strategy offered by me to make bets.

Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago.

With personal interviews of players and owners and with over two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American history.

David Lesch is a modern-day Renaissance man whose work has spanned continents and allowed him to explore cultures near and far.

The inspiring biography of former women's professional baseball player Maybelle BlairMaybelle Blair's entire life has been about baseball-women's baseball.

The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids.

Une histoire de basebaLL et de gratitude

Plus jeune, Derek Aucoin n'avait qu'un seul rêve: porter les couleurs des Expos de Montréal.

En plus d'être un acteur et un témoin privilégié de l'aventure des Expos de Montréal, Rodger Brulotte représente à lui seul plus de trente ans d'histoire du baseball.

The story of one of the most significant and overlooked seasons in professional baseball, told through the travails of the Spokane Indians On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed to the bottom of a deep ravine in Washington state's Cascade mountains, killing nine players.

A professional baseball prospect given little chance of making the big time, Octavio "e;Cookie"e; Rojas nevertheless flourished at the sport's top level during a 16-year major league career.

Philadelphia's 1905 African-American Giants were the first team of the last century to score 1,000 runs.

The lost memoir from Lou Gehrig';a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero' (Sports Illustrated) and ';a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend' (Publishers Weekly).

During the 1990s, as New York was transformed from a crumbling city into a vibrant metropolis, the New York Mets were anything but vibrant.

Get Your Balls, Bats, and Sticks on Route 66!

Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of documentarians around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as lazing out on the porch of a summers night and meditating to your favorite ball team.

On New Years Day, 1975, Catfish Hunter left the Oakland As for a $3,000,000 contract with the New York Yankees, becoming, at the time, the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history.

A collection of quotes, anecdotes, and malaprops from one of baseball's wisest and wittiest personalities.

Bill Denehy was at the top of his game .

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child.

A Simon & Schuster eBook.

The one player guide every true baseball fan will want - the leading resource for the next generation of rising stars.

The one player guide every true baseball fan will want - the leading resource for the next generation of rising stars.

The one player guide every true baseball fan will want -- the leading resource for the next generation of rising stars!

Baseball Americas Prospect Handbook is, quite simply, the only source you need to find out about the future stars of baseball.

Professional sports in America: it's all about fair play and the goal of winning championships.

The idea behind The Unofficial Guide to Baseballs Most Unusual Records is a simple one: to compile all the baseball records that cant be found anywhere else in one slick, pocket-sized handy guide.