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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.

The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark.

The New York Yankees are synonymous with home runs.

This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions.

Winner, 1997 Seymour Medal for Best Biography--Society for American Baseball Research.

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

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.

The fifty-eight year Easter Monday baseball rivalry between North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University had a traditional fraternity celebration known as the PIKA Ball, held on the N.

This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011).

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.

Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game's history, like footnotes in a great book.

This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell.

Here are 42 interviews with women who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Burleigh Grimes--forever to be remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o'clock shadow.

After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first National League pennant since 1927.

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St.

The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.

Spring training is a time of renewal for baseball, when teams and fans descend on Florida and Arizona to begin the ever hopeful new season.

Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Alfonso Ramon Lopez spent 36 years in the big leagues as a catcher and manager.

A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed.

Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance.

Although Andrew "e;Rube"e; Foster (1879-1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season.

In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League teams endeavored to stake their claim to the Junior Circuit's crown.

This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "e;cold cases"e; of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known.

This book presents a scientific but easy to understand explanation of pitching power.

The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Chicago White Sox, St.

This is the story of one of the most dramatic baseball seasons ever, as it stretched both backwards and forwards--from the ghosts of seasons and players past to the reality of what followed.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

With more losses and last-place finishes than any other club in Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies have earned a reputation as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to take the field.

Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet.

The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballparks.

There is no question that the physical and mental demands of the sport of baseball are rigorous.

Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team.

2024 Casey Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year!

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

In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies' unexpected run at the National League pennant.

From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end.

Changing The Game is the second steamy hot tale in the Play-By-Play series from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton.

Thrown By A Curve is the fifth erotically charged book in the Play-By-Play series from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton.

Holiday Games is a sexy holiday novella in the Play-By-Play series from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton.

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.

The year 1906 holds special significance for the city of Chicago for a number of reasons, but probably nothing generated as much excitement as the all-Chicago World Series that pitted the White Sox against the Cubs.

Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship.

Their names conjure up the golden era of New York Yankees history and the sport of baseball itself; names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt, and Herb Pennock.

In this autobiographical sweep through the mists of baseballs past, the author recounts his summer of professional baseball as a pitcher/bus driver for a Class C team in Missoula, Montana in 1956.

A biography of Walter French, a man who played for both a World Series winner and NFL Championship team.

Certain individuals find a singular moment in life used to portray them and/or define them, if not basically brand them.

Big League Trivia - Facts, Figures, Oddities, and Coincidences from our National Pastime is a unique trivia book divided into twenty-four chapters dealing with various areas of the great game of major league baseball.