Baseball
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Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball
$21.95 Add to cartOn any given spring evening, 360,000 children around the world can be found on the dusty mounds and grassy fields of a Little League field. With more than four million people playing or volunteering i
- Series: 2nd Edition
- Author: Van Auken, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0998681199
- Language: English
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The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life
$19.99 Read more“If you love baseball, you have to read this book! Funny, poignant, and brutally honest, it is sports writing at its very best.” –Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy retired)
Lessons in bas- Author: Maddon, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1538751801
- Language: English
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Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — And America — Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season–when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by nati- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821834
- Language: English
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The Franchise: New York Yankees: A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers
$28.00 Read moreIn The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball’s most successful team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the ast- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Feinsand, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379948
- Language: English
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New York Mets Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History
$22.95 Add to cartIn New York Mets Firsts, Brett Topel presents the stories behind the firsts in Mets history in question-and-answer format. More than a mere trivia book, Topel’s collection includes substantive answers
- Series: Sports Team Firsts
- Author: Topel, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068776
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Detroit Tigers Time Machine Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe Detroit Tigers have been marked neither by dynasties nor doldrums. The Tigers captured just four World Series championships since becoming a charter member of the junior circuit in 1901. They comp
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493060554
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Kansas City Royals Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Royals Fans!
$11.90 Add to cartTest Your Kansas City Royals Knowledge!
The Ultimate Kansas City Royals Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Royals. You will be tested on your knowledge of min
- Author: Walker, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 09 2021
- ISBN10: 195356352X
- Language: English
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The Baseball Entertainer
$13.43 Add to cartHere’s the perfect leisure-time and take-along book for baseball fans: a compendium of challenging quizzes, crossword puzzles, rules interpretation problems, brain teasers, humorous anecdotes, cartoon… [more below]
- Author: Kuenster, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638208
- Language: English
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The Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine Book
$18.95 Add to cartThe Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cardinals’ greatest moments, such as their eleven World Series titles, but also such notable Cardina
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067079
- Language: English
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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cart“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”–Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings
In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibs- Author: Pappu, Sridhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557286
- Language: English
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Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues
$28.95 Read more“With its personal feel and near-mystical quality, this highly recommended work will mesmerize baseball lovers and casual fans.” Library Journal, Starred Review
A behind-the-scenes look at baseball his
- Author: Golenbock, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1538181827
- Language: English
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Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance
$19.99 Add to cartHow does Nolan Ryan still do it?At forty-three years old, Nolan Ryan is a marvel. He is still blowing his fastballs by hitters at an age when most pitchers have long since retired–or have learned to … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Nolan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0671705814
- Language: English
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Baseball 100
“Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great Cincinnati Reds teams–especially the ’75 Reds–deserve a place of prominence in our memory, same as t
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582557
- Language: English
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Fenway 1946: Red Sox, Peace, and a Year of Hope
$31.58 Add to cartFenway 1946 celebrates the city, the team, and the spirit of that wonderful 1946 season in Boston–a season, as usual, that broke fans’ hearts–as America returned to peacetime pastimes. And none was
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067400
- Language: English
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
$19.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Best Seller
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected–a m
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Balukjian, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229827
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
$29.93 Add to cartJ. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the “turn the other cheek” compliant “credit to his race.” Examining this key figure at the cros… [more below]
- Series: Library of African American Biography
- Author: Schutz, J. Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1538110202
- Language: English
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Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
$19.95 Add to cart2014 Baseball Caucus Readers’ Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association
The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan’s dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity a
- Author: Halfon, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235193
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$23.99 Add to cart“No athlete performed at a higher level through greater stress than Jackie Robinson.” -Scott Simon
The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and Ame- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 047126153X
- Language: English
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle.” —Seattle Times
In his classic tribute to America’s pastime, political comm
- Author: Will, George F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0061999814
- Language: English
