Baseball

The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to ...

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Bea...

Move over, Moneyball a cuttingedge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the hightech quest to build better players. As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking teambuilding strategies to...

?Baseball?s last .400 hitter share[s] his secrets in this primer still used at all levels of the game.? ?Paul Dickson, author of Bill Veeck: Baseball?s Greatest Maverick Now fully revised with new illustrations and diagrams, the classic?and still the greatest?book on hitting from the last baseball player to break the magic .400 barrier, Ted William...

Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the “most significant half decade in the history of the game.” The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Nolan Ryan, among others. It also presented one of the best World Series of all time (1975), including still the greatest W...

From Lawrence Ritter (The Image of Their Greatness, The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time), comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time, The Glory of Their Times?now a Harper Perennial Modern Classic.Baseball was different in earlier days?tougher, rawer, more intimate?when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the ...

The acclaimed nationwide best seller and companion volume to Ken Burnss grandslam PBS documentaryupdated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, twopart Tenth Inning that lokos back on the age of steroids, homerun records, the rise of Latino players, and so much more.With a narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward, a preface to the new editio...

What would happen if two statisticsminded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball teamIt?s the ultimate in Fantasy, baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That?s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when ...

This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting majorleague ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 19...

Relief Pitcher Sparky Lyle was the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner for his role in helping the New York Yankees to their first World Series championship since 1962. The following winter, the Yankees who changed the face of baseball in those early years of free agency went out and aquired Pittsburgh closer Goose Gossage, relegating Ly...

Based on the true story of a boy in Brooklyn who became neighbors and friends with his hero, Jackie Robinson.Stephen Satlow is an eightyearold boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thingthe Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasio...

Sylvester loved baseball, but he wasn't what you'd call a good hitter. He had decided against joining the team, when he met George Baruth. He promised Sylvester he would help him become one of the best players ever. Before long he was hitting homers....

"A brilliant new approach to our game and its author tells a hundred stories you haven't heard before. It is my honor to invite you to enter into his world."John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League BaseballThe fascinating, true, origin story of baseball how America's first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation. Baseball's tru...

Thirty great essays, profiles, and stories about America's pastime....

See how all aspects of baseball, America's pastime, has evolved in this highly visual book filled with history and trivia about the sports world. You'll see every aspect of the sport transform before your eyes into the game that it is today. From rules to equipment to the alltime greats, this book is a journey through the game spanning the years. ...

If 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 tearout checklist to mark ballparks you?ve visited and those on your bucket list, Ballparks takes you inside the histories of every park in the Major Leagues, with hundreds of ...

?A delight for baseball lovers? (Kirkus Reviews) and ?one of the most significant baseball books of the year? (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball?s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic.Forget batting average. Kill the ?Win.? Say goodbye to starting p...

From the day he first stepped into the Yankee clubhouse, Jim Bouton (1939?2019) was the sports world?s deceptive revolutionary. Underneath the crew cut and behind the allAmerican boynextdoor good looks lurked a maverick with a signature style. Whether it was his frank talk about player salaries and mistreatment by management, his passionate advo...

A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and ...

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the ?holy book of baseball.? Now, baseball's beloved ?Sultan of Stats? (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium.Like the original, The New Bill James Histor...

The Summer Game, Roger Angell?s first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans, it goes beyond the usual sports reporter?s beat to examine baseball?s complex place in our American psyche. Between the miseries of the 1962 expansion M...

From the arrival at the stadium to the last goodnight, Goodnight Baseball isa sweet, nostalgictaletold in gentle, fun rhymeabout the thrill of a baseball game....

Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoscack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball p...

The debut book in the New York Times bestselling Contract series, The Contract is a middle grade baseball novel inspired by the youth of legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter.As a young boy, Derek Jeter dreams of being the shortstop for the New York Yankees. He even imagines himself in the World Series. So when Derek is chosen for the Li...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Baseball, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." Babe Ruth Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, worldfamous for his hitting prowess, he transcended the sport to enter the mainstream of American life as an authentic folk...

Joe Stoshack lives for baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game except how to play well. His specialty is striking out. Stosh feels like a real loser, and when he takes a lowpaying job cleaning a bunch of junk out of his neighbor's attic, he feels even worse until he comes across a little piece of cardboard that takes hi...

With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize?winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.The year was 1949, and a warweary nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beg...

With its threehourlong contests, 162game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to selfreflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime in recent years, bringing metr...

From picking coffee in the Dominican Republic to reaching icon status as a Major League pitcher in America, here is the story of baseball?s most colorful player told in his own words Bartolo Colón?also known as Big Sexy?is a baseball icon and one of the most beloved players to ever play the game. In a career spanning 21 years, Colón has won the C...

Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year, as Bill Veeck notes in his Introduction, "preserving for all time a remarkable tale of ineptitude, mediocrity, and abject failure." Indeed the 1962 Mets were the worst major league baseball team ever to take the field. (The title of th...

The #1 Bestseller!Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his daytoday life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his...

?If you build it, he will come.? These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfield baseball diamond in honor of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your w...

The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played in just a single major league baseball game and how they responded to the heartache of never making it back. Featuring exclusive interviews with each of the players, their insight provides a unique look into the struggles of being a professional ballplayer. Reaching the major league...

In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees seventeenyear old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey?s autism?a disorder still not truly understood even today?has alie...