Essays & Writings
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Baseball Obscura 2026
$18.95 Add to cartDive deeper into the game with Baseball Obscura 2026!
Baseball is more than standings and box scores: it’s about the teams and players, history and future, the arguments and possibilities. Baseball Obs
- Author: Fleming, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992355925
- Language: English
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Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life
$32.00 Read moreLegendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker reflects on his extraordinary career–filled with invaluable lessons on perseverance, leadership, and living life meaningfully on the field and off.
D- Author: Baker, Dusty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593800435
- Language: English
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Unhittable: How Technology, Mavericks, and Innovators Engineered Baseball’s New Era of Pitching Dominance
$32.00 Add to cartThe baseball expert famously known as PitchingNinja explores the revolution that has given pitchers an unprecedented advantage in today’s game.
Pitching dominates baseball as never before. Spin rate,- Author: Friedman, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063456761
- Language: English
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Death by Data: How Analytics and Technology Are Killing Baseball
$22.99 Add to cartSince its origin in the 1840s, baseball has grown and changed organically, a unique blend of athleticism, savvy, and instinct, a central part of American culture across the generations. But in recent
- Author: Bradley, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1955398186
- Language: English
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Bob Uecker: The Funniest Man in Baseball
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Freedman, Lew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681572427
- Language: English
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The Long Season: The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959
$17.99 Add to cart“One of the best baseball books ever written. It is probably one of the best American diaries as well.” —New York Times
A timeless classic from baseball’s golden era, legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan’s
- Author: Brosnan, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 006266705X
- Language: English
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A Year of Playing Catch: What a Simple Daily Experiment Taught Me about Life
$19.99 Add to cartThe tedium of daily stress leads us to play less and connect less than we long for–and our souls pay for it. Prolific author Ethan Bryan shares stories from a one-year experiment of playing catch eve… [more below]
- Author: Bryan, Ethan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0310367387
- Language: English
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Baseball: The Movie
$30.00 Add to cart“Finally, someone takes baseball movies seriously! Baseball: The Movie blends the passion of a fan with the rigorous analysis of a film critic to create a persuasive argument that the baseball movie m… [more below]
- Author: Gittell, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1637272642
- Language: English
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Perfect Eloquence: An Appreciation of Vin Scully
$34.95 Add to cartNamed aBest Sports Book of 2024 Pick by Sports Illustrated
When Vin Scully passed away in 2022, the city of Los Angeles lost its soundtrack. If you were able to deliver a eulogy for him, what might- Author: Hoffarth, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238788
- Language: English
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Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It
$32.50 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling biographer and lifelong baseball devotee takes readers on an epic journey through the game that baseball has become– a heartfelt manifesto that’s perfect for lovers of th… [more below]
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0306834669
- Language: English
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Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
$30.00 Add to cartA poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America–written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfu… [more below]
- Author: Bardenwerper, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549652
- Language: English
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Smart, Wrong, and Lucky: The Origin Stories of Baseball’s Unexpected Stars
$28.00 Read moreA fascinating look at how MLB teams find diamonds in the rough
In the plainest of terms, baseball scouts are tasked with seeing the future–a distant future, at that. Baseball’s long developmental arc
- Author: Mayo, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1629378984
- Language: English
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Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero
$19.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed sports writer and bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, a searing and insightful look into the life and career of Barry Bonds, one of the most celebrated, contradictory and controversial s
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0060797533
- Language: English
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Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA freewheeling memoir of baseball, journalism, and New York spanning over 50 years of America’s pastime
Before he’d covered dozens of World Series; before he’d written about countless hirings, firing- Author: Madden, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1637277156
- Language: English
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Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old STATS That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think about Baseball
$17.99 Add to cartPredictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surp
- Author: Law, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0062490230
- Language: English
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The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer’s Odyssey to the World Series
$27.95 Add to cart“For those who love baseball, the game holds deep personal meaning and echoes to the past that are undeniable but often hard to articulate. Christian Sheppard’s The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball is a lov
- Author: Sheppard, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886453041
- Language: English
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“Hey Mom, wanna have a catch?”: A Collection of Baseball Stories…honoring moms and dads who taught us to love America’s National Pastime
$15.99 Add to cartThis is a collection of baseball stories from award winning authors, college professors, baseball broadcasters, former players and baseball fans about the influence their Mom or Dad had on their lifel
- Author: Sheinkopf, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79882E+12
- Language: English
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I Was Right on Time
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening biography of baseball legend Buck O’Neil, first baseman and then manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, who witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise.
From Babe- Author: Conrads, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 068483247X
- Language: English
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Ballparks: A Journey Through the Fields of the Past, Present, and Future
$29.99 Read moreIf you love baseball and the venerable stadiums its played in, you need this definitive history and guide to Major League ballparks of the past, present, and future.
With a tear-out checklist to mar- Author: Enders, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0785836160
- Language: English
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I Love Baseball: Players, Managers, Sportswriters, and Fans Talk about Their Love for the Game
$24.95 Add to cartFrom zany mascots to the most beautiful ballparks ever, and from great traditions to humorous anecdotes from the game, I Love Baseball explores the many reasons we love baseball. It’s all here:
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- Series: I Love
- Author: Stewart, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 149308531X
- Language: English
