Baseball

This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which operated for 60 years in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

In the spring of 1933, with a new president in office and a banking crisis narrowly averted, there was optimism in Washington, D.

A unique approach to the history of a Negro League team: The first half of this book covers the leagues and the players of the 1920s, the 1930s, and 1940 through 1947 (when Robinson broke the color barrier).

Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.

The New York Clipper (according to its masthead "e;The Oldest American Sporting and Theatrical Journal"e;) was the standard bearer of sports weeklies during the 19th century.

This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press.

He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost.

In the fall of 1908, no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs, a team that had dominated the National league three straight years, would for a century be shut out in its efforts to reclaim the world championship.

From 1921 through 1930, a young George E.

The 2001-2002 offseason was a tumultuous one for Major League Baseball.

Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players until Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige made their way into the Hall of Fame.

"e;Shoeless"e; Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players.

The Washington Senators have a special place in baseball history as one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to play the game.

Waite Hoyt was much more than a baseball player.

More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale.

The retiring of a number to honor a player likely began with the New York Yankees.

Mathewson, one of the towering figures in baseball history, won 373 games in 17 seasons, all but one of those victories for the New York Giants.

The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the bases were loaded with baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues.

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration.

This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2007 and 2008 meetings of the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the long-running academic conference held annually at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball.

Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking out on the hardball diamond.

The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams together year after year.

They emerged from the mines, shook off the coal dust, and stepped onto the diamond.

This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive skills.

This work examines the historical significance of the state of New Jersey in the Negro League legacy, especially the black baseball players, teams, owners and managers, and their struggles against not just segregation, and their accomplishments.

Recent polls have placed football ahead of baseball in popularity.

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

Baseball at its best is a combination of chess match and gladiatorial combat, waged over a long season but turning on split-second decisions and physical instincts.

This biography traces the hard life and colorful career of "e;Iron Man"e; McGinnity from his childhood working the coalfields of Illinois to his death in 1929.

From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC''s award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that can be made to protect and promote the game''s best interests.

Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending.

From 1985 to 1992, The Baseball Hall of Shame series chronicled more than 100 years of baseball goofs and gaffes, selling more than 700,000 copies.

Hack Wilsons record 191 RBIs in 1930 may well stand the test of time, and so may the record of his hard-drinking lifestyle.

Twenty top Major League Baseball players share stories about life off the field and their favorite foodswith nearly 100 full-color photos and more than 60 easy-to-make recipesBaseball and food are two of lifes uncomplicated pleasures, stirring up sizzling passion across all generations.

An authoritative look back at the decade that brought Americas favorite game into the modern era.

A collection ofghost storiescollected from baseballplayers, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, whichexplores the sometimes amusing and sometimes spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal.

The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before.

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball.

Winner: Ferguson Kansas History Book AwardA Kansas Notable BookAs baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game.

This book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself.

Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia.

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball.

Baseball has existed since the mid 1800's and has been the occupation for thousands of men through history.

"e;If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!

In this book,The Baseball Gods are Real: Volume 3 - The Religion of Baseball, I expand on my belief that the Baseball Gods do exist.

In the Baseball Gods are Real - Volume 2: The Road to the Show, I take my readers for another ride as I continue on my spiritual path.

Finalist for the 2024 Casey Award and selected as a 'Best Baseball Book of 2024' by Sports Collector's DigestFor twenty Major League seasons, the name Dwight Evans was synonymous with sterling defense and a potent bat.

From an award-winning humorist, a touching memoir and manifesto that reveals the deep secrets of fan jinxes, hexes, and charms Did you know there is a secret to winning ballgames?