Baseball

Relive the tumultuous preseason before Robinson broke the color barrierIn February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana.

Baseball and Philosophy presents thirty-one talented professional thinkers who have found wisdom in and through baseball.

Of the 17,000-plus players who have donned major league uniforms over the years, not all were particularly nice or ethical.

In 1890, baseball's Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113.

Around 1863, William "e;Candy"e; Cummings discovered he could make clamshells curve when thrown-a skill he transferred to baseball as a pitcher for the New York Excelsiors.

Who comprised the most productive pairs in the history of professional team sports?

Although very few baseball games end with a final score of one to zero, and such a score line might suggest a contest devoid of drama, nothing could be further from the truth.

Mention "e;The Penguin"e; to any Dodgers fan and you're sure to evoke not just memories of the beloved third baseman Ron Cey, but also of the glory years of modern Dodgers baseball, a rollicking run through the '70s and '80s highlighted by the loquacious Tommy Lasorda, Fernandomania, a historic infield anchored by Cey, and an unforgettable 1981 World Series title.

The Toronto Blue Jays pitcher recounts his fateful season of injury, rehab, and reinvention in a memoir by "e;the best writer in a baseball uniform"e; (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times).

"e;An entertaining history of baseball cards .

Nikkei Baseball examines baseball's evolving importance to the Japanese American community and the construction of Japanese American identity.

This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in Cleveland from 1891 to 1946, but with a significant history that includes the National Football League, Negro League baseball, college football and boxing, and an uncanny multitude of amazing events and people.

The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the impending "e;invasion of major league baseball"e; in 1958.

Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players.

This is an oral history of the Latin American baseball leagues of the mid-20th century.

There are many sports-related books about what happens on the playing field, but few are written about the equally interesting stories of what happens on the business side.

The Pennsylvania state leagues of the 1880s and 1890s rank among the most interesting minor leagues in the history of baseball.

This is the first full-length biography of Kid Nichols (1869-1953), who won 30 or more games a record seven times and was the youngest pitcher to reach 300 career victories.

Walk through any major or minor league park today and the sights, sounds, and smells of baseball overwhelm.

In baseball, injuries to players fall into two main categories: overuse and traumatic.

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.

Widely regarded as the best manager of his time, Bill McKechnie built winners at every stop, took four teams to the World Series and became the only man to do it in three different cities.

This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer who was the first third baseman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely.

This reference work is in two parts.

With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager, umpire, owner and league official.

Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era.

By 1871, the popularity of baseball had spread so thoroughly across America that one writer observed, "e;It is as much our national game as cricket is that of the English.

In 1972, the Philadelphia Phillies experienced one of their worst seasons in franchise history, finishing with an abysmal 59-97 record.

Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans played Major League Baseball.

Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from tubercular meningitis in 1911.

In the early 20th century, two female baseball players signed with minor league teams only to have their contracts canceled when their gender became public.

Major League Baseball today would be unrecognizable without the large number of Latin American players and managers filling its ranks.

One of early baseball's most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St.

Between October 1961 and October 1962, the Yankees and the Mets shared the city for the first time, their front offices located on opposite sides of Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, and their playing fields--Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds--situated on opposite sides of the Macombs Dam Bridge.

Nearly every year since 1939, baseball's most outstanding players, umpires, pioneers and executives have been enshrined at Cooperstown in a public ceremony attracting thousands of fans from across (and sometimes beyond) the United States.

This collection of more than 300 graphic biographies of baseball players is a throwback to the illustrated biographies or cartoons seen regularly in newspaper sports sections of the '30s, '40s and '50s.

One of major league baseball's first Native American stars, John Tortes "e;Chief"e; Meyers (1880-1971) was the hard-hitting, award-winning catcher for John McGraw's New York Giants from 1908 to 1915 and later for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

One of the greatest outfielders of his generation, Hazen "e;Kiki"e; Cuyler (1898-1950) was working as a roof assembler in an auto plant in Michigan when he seized an opportunity to realize his dream of playing major league baseball.

The first African American to play in baseball's recognized major leagues, William Edward White, appeared in 1879, followed by brothers Fleetwood and Welday Walker in 1884.

Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more than 2,500 players by state of birth and includes both major league and Negro League athletes.

During the Cleveland Indians' checkered 110-year history, only two of its teams have brought home baseball's ultimate prize.

Professional baseball is full of arcane team names.

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

Billy Hamilton, whose major league career spanned 1888-1901, holds the all-time record for runs scored in a season (196 in 129 games), number of consecutive games scoring a run (24), and career runs scored per game (1.

This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continental U.

From the earliest days of baseball, young men who filled team rosters felt compelled to fill the uniforms of America's armed forces when their country called.

In late 1901, a number of baseball owners decided to break away from the Western League and form a new league called the American Association.

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