Baseball

This unique reference provides insider observations of the entire 2007 Championship season from Mr.

Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure.

In Copying It Down, Harvey Dorfman recounts his experiences in the world of sports.

is a family photo album filled with over 200 new, never-before-published images of Ruth.

At the end of the 1883 baseball season, things looked rosy--attendance had skyrocketed and the National League and American Association were at peace.

Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "e;asterisk"e; next to Roger Maris's record.

With over 300 stunning archival photographs, the New York Daily News presents an era-by-era visual history of one of the world's most iconic teams.

This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn.

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Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of heroes: Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell.

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss.

11 in '11 is a thoroughly reported chronicle of an unparalleled season, packed with interviews with key players, team executives, broadcasters, and more Of the 11 World Series titles the St.

Among early 20th century baseball players, John Preston "e;Pete"e; Hill (1882-1951) was considered the equal of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker--only skin color kept him out of the majors.

Imagine a story in which a young man grows up so close to a major-league ballpark that he can see the stadium lights from his front yard.

By 1900 Maryland's Eastern Shore, along the western side of the Delmarva Peninsula, was acknowledged in the national press as a hotbed of baseball activity.

The crack of the bat, the cheering of fans and the agility and athleticism of the players are all characteristics that many people fondly associate with Major League Baseball.

Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true.

Chronicling the 1902-1960 rivalry between the Minneapolis Millers and St.

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The last player to hit .

An addictive read that is sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, The Baseball Maniacs Almanac is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the greatest, most unusual, and thorough compendium of baseball stats and facts ever compiledall verified for accuracy by the Baseball Hall of Fame.

11 in '11 is a thoroughly reported chronicle of an unparalleled season, packed with interviews with key players, team executives, broadcasters, and more Of the 11 World Series titles the St.

Visualizing Baseball provides a visual exploration of the game of baseball.

Dick Stuart (1932-2002) began as a minor league first baseman, noted for his outsized ego and terrible fielding.

From their ignominious 40-120 debut in 1962, to the Miracle Mets of the shocking 1969 season, to the teams of Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Jacob deGrom, the New York Mets have in nearly sixty years become the citys other beloved baseball franchise, with its fan base stretching well beyond the New York suburbs.

This is a history of major league baseball's first All-Star game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time "e;Game of the Century"e; (including greats such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Carl Hubbell and Lefty Grove) to lift the spirits of the nation and its people in the midst of the Great Depression.

Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn't feature a clock, and there's a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the game can, theoretically, go on forever.

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending.

The first in-depth study of Kinsella's fiction since 1987, this book offers a unique and updated analysis.

With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook.

In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues.

Casey Award Winner: "e;Follows seven Dodgers, including Sandy Koufax, through the 1960s, telling a story about baseball and about larger cultural changes.

"e;If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever.

This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories.

Since radio's debut in the 1920s and television's in the '30s, the baseball announcer has become entertainer, observer, and extended member of the family.

The untold story of the years when the Yankees were a laughingstock—and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records.

In the late 19th century, baseball players broke from the established leagues and organized their own Players' League.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world.

A History of the Epic Rivalry between Two of Baseballs Powerhouses that Has Spanned Over Eighty Yearsfrom Ebbets Field to Dodger Stadium, from Babe Ruth to Reggie Jackson The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are two of the most storied and popular teams in not only baseball, but all of sports.

Eddie Cicotte, who pitched in the American League 1905-1920, was one of the tragic figures of baseball.

One of the best managers in the early years of professional baseball, Frank Selee (1859-1909) built two great teams.

Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet.

The Boston Globe's number-one bestseller is back, revised and updated for the 2008 seasonand presented in a new trim size.

Few franchises in the deadball era won as consistently or as often as the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics.

Told through profiles of the men who have made it a reality, this is the complex story of the triumphs achieved by-and challenges faced by-Latinos who have risen to the heights of Major League Baseball.

The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare.

Now revised and updated to include reflections on the modern era of Red Sox baseball Commemorating the Boston Red Sox's unforgettable championship run in the fall of 2004, go behind the scenes and inside the dugout, bullpen, and clubhouse to discover how this team defied the ultimate odds.

Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past.

Mike Cramer's first love was baseball cards.