Baseball Books

When legendary Chicago Cubs' broadcaster Harry Caray passed away in February of 1998, thousands of baseball fans mourned the loss. In Where's Harry?, Steve Stone pays tribute to one of baseball's biggest legends never to take the field, remembering the...

"Chiquito, le joueur de Pelote; scènes de la vie basque en 4 actes d'après Pierre Loti" is a dramatic work by Jean Nouguès with a poem by Henri Cain. This French text, reflecting Basque life, presents a compelling narrative in four...

This book covers some of the rules and fundamentals of the game of Softball. Along with some safety guidelines and equipment needed to play.

The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item, a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball, and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made, and how does...

What happens when you can't fit all the outstanding interviews into one book? You make a Volume 2! Excitement in the Air - The Voices of NW Wrestling, Volume 2, brings you additional interviews with the stars that shaped professional wrestling in the NW...

The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided. An understanding of baseball calls for consideration of different...

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The People At Play is a book written by Rollin Lynde Hartt and published in 1909. The book is a collection of essays that explores the various forms of recreation and leisure activities that people engage in. Hartt examines the social, cultural, and...

The Monte Carlo Tournament of 1903 is a historical book written by Emil Kemeny. It is a detailed account of the famous tournament held in Monte Carlo in 1903, which was attended by some of the greatest chess players of the time, including Emanuel Lasker,...

The Gate to Golf is a book written by Edgar J. Douglas and first published in 1920. It is a comprehensive guide to playing golf, aimed at beginners and intermediate players alike. The book is divided into several sections, each covering a different...

The Game of Croquet: Its Appointment and Laws is a book written by R. Fellow in 1865. It is a comprehensive guide to the game of croquet, which was a popular outdoor sport during the Victorian era. The book describes the equipment needed to play the...

The Field Sports Of The North Of Europe: A Narrative Of Angling, Hunting, And Shooting In Sweden And Norway is a book written by Llewelyn Lloyd and published in 1885. The book is a detailed account of the author's experiences with angling, hunting, and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Modern Polo is a book written by Edward Darley Miller in 1902. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the sport of polo, covering everything from the history of the game to the rules and techniques used by players. Miller draws on his extensive...

Following The Ball is a book written by Albertus True Dudley and published in 1903. The book is a detailed account of the author's travels across Europe and his experiences watching various football matches. The book is divided into chapters, each...

Foil And Sabre: A Grammar Of Fencing In Detailed Lessons For Professor And Pupil (1892) is a book written by Louis Rondelle that provides a comprehensive guide to the art of fencing. The book is divided into two sections, one for foil and the other for...

""Football Facts and Figures: A Symposium of Expert Opinions on the Game's Place in American Athletics"" is a book written by Walter Camp and first published in 1894. The book is a compilation of essays and articles from various experts in the field of...

What if the Indians won every game? What if something unique, historic, memorable, or odd happened every day? The Perfect Season Project takes 120 years of Cleveland Baseball history and concentrates it into one Perfect Season. Two unique rules make it...

Mets faced Rays in the first round of the 2002 FCL Baseball Playoffs in Port Charlotte, FL. Full color photography by Marisa L. Williams vividly recalls details from the game. Narration is written in English, Spanish, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean...

For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players and the coaches, baseball Yankees-style was also an...

The story of the changing face of baseball and the inner workings of its finest organization After a hundred "cursed" years, the Boston Red Sox rose gloriously to baseball domination. Under the leadership of manager Terry Francona, an extraordinary team...

From the author of Baseball 100"A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure...One of the best baseball books in years, filled with depth style and clarity." --Cleveland Plain DealerAn...

The saga of New York's push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.Bush League, Big City tells the interwoven stories of two low-level minor league baseball teams brought to New York City in the late 1990s...

"Both a pleasure and a revelation."--Daniel Okrent, author of Nine InningsIn 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals,...

Baseball's Natural is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and the Phillies in the 1940s and became immortalized in baseball lore as the inspiration for Bernard Malamud's The Natural. Eddie Waitkus grew...

Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of...

 Since its inception in 1933, the All-Star Game has become an integral part of baseball. Yet there has been no truly comprehensive source for researchers that includes both a narrative and a play-by-play for each game. Nor have there been more than...

Forgotten today, Sam Thompson (1860-1922) was one of the most dominant five skills players of his era. At the plate, he batted .331, was second among 19th century players in home runs, and ranks first all-time in RBI per game (.923). In his prime, he...

In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges--population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in...

The book chronicles almost 300 in-season changes of managers in the major leagues since 1900. It elaborates on the circumstances that led to the change, whether it was a firing or a resignation and includes, in many cases, remarks of the dismissed...

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 essays represent 16 of the leading presentations from the two most...

This is a book about baseball players who performed in the major leagues before the age of 21. For years the dream of many boys has been to enter the world of professional sports. Out of millions of boys who have played baseball, more than 17,000 have...

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. Ted Kluszewski...

This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on...

This book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself. At the age of 38, a midlife crisis inspired me to explore a spiritual path. As I transformed myself through the practice of yoga and meditation, I was introduced to the...

Das Buch ""Das Jagd-Revier Dessen Verwaltung Und Pflege"" von Raoul Ritter Von Dombrowski wurde im Jahr 1890 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zur Verwaltung und Pflege von Jagdrevieren. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die...

In the Ballpark is a collection of interviews with twenty-one people who work in all parts of Major and Minor League Baseball: usher and broadcaster, beer vendor and sportswriter, clubhouse attendant and field manager, ticket seller and owner, scout and...

This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavor of the period by providing yearly overviews from the standpoint of each team and by focusing more deeply on 30 or more players of the era--not only such...

During 75 seasons of baseball (1946-2020), 71 teams in 21 minor leagues represented 35 Canadian cities, playing either under the aegis of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (called Minor League Baseball since 1999) or...

Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Cardinal teams won more than 100 games. He won three National League pennants with the Cardinals and one with...

Baseball was a rough sport in the nineteenth century and no one played the game with more vigor (and often violence) than Hall of Famers Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, dubbed "The Heavenly Twins." This book details their professional history playing...

As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and...

In 1945 the most famous curse in sports was placed on the Chicago Cubs when Bill Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field. Though Sianis purchased two tickets for the fourth game of the World Series against Detroit, the goat's stench led to...

The Pacific Coast League enjoyed a reputation as one of the premier minor leagues in organized baseball. Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Lefty Gomez, the Waner brothers and Ernie Lombardi were among the future Hall of Famers who played in its cozy parks...