Baseball

Fifty fictional legendary baseball players and their illustrated biographies.

The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade).

Gib Bodet's 70-year love affair with baseball dates from his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and it has carried him through parts of six decades as a scout with the Red Sox, Tigers, Expos, Angels, Royals, and Dodgers.

This is a straightforward history of the Athletics franchise, from its Connie Mack years in Philadelphia with teams featuring Eddie Collins, Chief Bender, Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane and Lefty Grove, through its 13 years in Kansas City, under Arnold Johnson and Charles O.

This is the story of one of the all-time great teams of major league baseball, the 1957 Milwaukee Braves.

Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past.

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21.

This work is a game-by-game account of the Philadelphia Athletics' pitiful 1916 season, in which they won just 36 of 154 games.

The Giant-Dodger rivalry was considered the best in baseball by 1890 and remains the game's oldest and most storied rivalry today.

This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005), left off, covers the Dodgers' final eight years in Brooklyn.

Cap Anson's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: "e;The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century.

This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s.

The Indianapolis ABCs were formed around the turn of the century, playing company teams from around the city; they soon played other teams in Indiana, including some white teams.

August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted lieutenant to one of the most powerful political bosses in the country, George B.

What if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland's outfield?

There are uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of the West.

In 1916, over 500 men played in a major league game.

Until 1947, professional ball players were paid only from opening day to season's end.

Written for coaches, this work presents more than 180 baseball games and activities for young children and adolescents, focusing on teaching, improvement of skills and enjoyment.

Explanation, demonstration, correction and repetition are essential to the activity of teaching.

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed.

Described as "e;the Greatest Batsman in the Country"e; by sportswriters of his era, Dennis "e;Big Dan"e; Brouthers compiled a .

This book is the day by day story of the 1954 Indians, whose .

Many histories of the New York Yankees only skim the early years in their rush to pick up with the 1919 season when Babe Ruth joined the team and go on to celebrate the careers of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford, and the team's World Series titles.

For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent change.

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn't like to bunt, figuring if you played for only one run that's all you'd get.

In 1908 baseball was the only game that mattered in the South.

This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007.

Henry Chadwick remains one of the titans of baseball history.

Finding potential players; attending to the logistical details of scheduling practices, games, banquets and summer leagues; developing an adequate preseason throwing program that will work in a high school gym; efficiently cutting players after tryouts; and promoting a high school baseball program throughout the community--these are just a few examples of the myriad duties assigned to a high school baseball head coach.

During his playing career, a baseball player's every action on the field is documented--every at bat, every hit, every pitch.

Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up.

After talks with baseball's owners broke down in the fall of 1889, some of the greatest players of the day jumped their contracts and declared open revolt against the American Association and National League.

Since the first baseball movie (Little Sunset) in 1915, Hollywood has had an on-again, off-again affair with the sport, releasing more than 100 films through 2001.

Painstakingly researched and documented, this volume is a comprehensive, year-by-year reference work giving important--yet often obscure--dates in Negro League history.

Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capacities.

The best baseball team of the 20th century?

Hundreds of major leaguers--including the Hall of Fame's Hank Greenburg, Johnny Mize, Rod Carew, Carl Yastrzemski and Joe Morgan--got their starts in North Carolina, where baseball has been a fixture in the state for nearly 100 years--in Charlotte and Durham (whose Bulls were in the 1988 film Bull Durham) as well as Red Springs and Snow Hill.

One of the greatest centerfielders ever, Tris Speaker's career was full of colorful moments on and off the field.

During the second half of the twentieth century, Major League Baseball and its affiliated minor leagues evolved from local and regional entities governing the play of America's favorite pastime to national business organizations.

Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American pastime.

For a dozen years during the 1940s and 1950s more than 600 women played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team.

If unpredictability is so much of what makes sports compelling, the baseball draft might be the best place to look.

The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959--the "e;golden age,"e; many say--are profiled in this exhaustive work.

This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL.

At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, "e;Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.

This book--the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball data--presents basic statistical information and listings for every Japanese professional baseball season from 1936 through 1997.

George Altman grew up in the segregated South but was able to participate in the sport at more levels of competition than perhaps anyone else who has ever played the game, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

A strong-armed devastating spitball pitcher from rural Tennessee who once won 16 games with the Boston Braves, Hub Perdue is better remembered today as one of the clown princes of the Deadball Era.