Baseball - History
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Cincinnati Soul
$18.95 Add to cartCincinnati Soul resurrects the inspiring legacies of the Cincinnati Tigers, the Cincinnati Cuban Stars, and other Black baseball teams in Cincinnati.
It sheds light on the players’ remarkable skills, w… [more below]
- Author: Lautenslager, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1636986153
- Language: English
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Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series
$34.95 Add to cartFor 40 years now, the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals has been largely overlooked, save for the enduring notoriety of umpire Don Denkinger’s infamous missed ca… [more below]
- Series: Sports and American Culture
- Author: Garvey, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0826223273
- Language: English
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Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson
$32.95 Add to cartIf there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher “Christy” Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamb… [more below]
- Author: Gaff, Alan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243277
- Language: English
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Legendary Ballparks: Moments and Memories from America’s Most Storied Stadiums
$34.99 Add to cartTake a grand-slam tour of North America’s best-loved ballparks with this visually stunning, fact-packed book that includes 15 removable pieces of baseball ephemera.
Featuring nostalgic images from acr- Author: Enders, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0785845410
- Language: English
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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams
$22.95 Read moreOn May 1, 1951, Orestes “Minnie” Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. Th… [more below]
- Author: Zminda, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088492
- Language: English
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Kansas Baseball
$24.99 Read moreBaseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leag
- Series: Sports
- Author: Travis, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158747
- Language: English
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Shocktober: The Biggest Upsets in World Series History
$24.95 Add to cartBaseball’s October showcase has provided some high drama over the years. Willie Mays’s spectacular catch in 1954, Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off homer in 1960, and Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit blast in 1988 are
- Author: Weeks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087037
- Language: English
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The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
$30.00 Add to cart“Baseball books don’t get any better than this…Earl Weaver has at last been given his due.” –George F. Will
The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver–who has bee- Author: Miller, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668030926
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Yankee Book: From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and Legendary Personalities–A Hist
$35.00 Read moreThe perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people and stories from the team’s creation in
- Author: Frommer, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1624144330
- Language: English
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More Amazing Mets Trivia
$24.95 Add to cartBuilding on the success of Amazing Mets Trivia, published in 2003, More Amazing Mets Trivia tests the memories of Mets fans of all ages with almost five hundred new questions about such Mets stars as
- Author: Samelson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1493072250
- Language: English
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Cape Dreams: A Season with the Brewster Whitecaps
$18.99 Add to cartCAPE DREAMS-A SEASON WITH THE BREWSTER WHITECAPS
FOREWORD BY PETER GAMMONS
Tucked away on the shores of Cape Cod Bay there lies one of the greatest amateur athletic organizations in American sport’s hi
- Author: Epstein, Mark A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218620240
- Language: English
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From St. Louis to Cooperstown: Legends Born and Made in the Gateway City
$32.00 Read more- Author: Wheatley, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681065789
- Language: English
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Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves
$32.95 Add to cartThe unlikely story of one of baseball’s greatest comeback seasons
The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place as
- Author: Bush, Martin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1606354949
- Language: English
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Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series
$34.95 Add to cartStarting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever publ… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496230809
- Language: English
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The Baseball Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Baseball Moments
$16.99 Add to cartPut your baseball expertise to the test with over 600 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite baseball moments throughout history.
Quiz yourself or compete- Series: Ultimate Trivia
- Author: Spada, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0760393710
- Language: English
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Diamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups
$24.95 Add to cartDiamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups takes a magnifying glass to some of the game’s most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers.
- Author: Nogowski, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084828
- Language: English
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True Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men Who Lived It
$14.99 Add to cartIn 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums, whose exploits inside — and outside — the white lines h
- Author: Delsohn, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0380806150
- Language: English
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Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning baseball writer and coauthor of Ninety Percent Mental, an unprecedented look at the job of Major League Baseball managers–showing how they shape the game, and how the ever-chan… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 306832704
- Language: English
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A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey
$32.95 Add to cartWillie McCovey, known as “Stretch,” played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome left-handed power hitter, McCo… [more below]
- Author: Haft, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496236246
- Language: English
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Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
$35.00 Add to cartAn authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s … [more below]
- Author: Early, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1984863223
- Language: English
