Baseball category: 2631 books
by Alexander Bessemer
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Baseball 101: Learn How To Play Baseball - A Guide For Beginners
This book covers several topics including:
Learn Baseball Fundamentals Coaching Philosophies For Kids To Learn Baseball Learn Baseball And Bunting Techniques Learn Baseball Rules Learn Baseball Basics An Overview For...
by Ace McCloud
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Would you love to know the incredible and exciting history of baseball?
Whether you want to (1) learn incredible and interesting facts about baseball history, (2) discover some of baseball’s greatest events and stories, or (3) be thoroughly entertained as you learn how baseball has evolved...
by Chris Epting
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Capturing such quintessentially American pastimes as baseball and road trips in one fascinating work, the updated and expanded third edition of Chris Epting’s Roadside Baseball chronicles more than 500 important events in baseball history with detailed descriptions of the event and information on...
Infinite Baseball
Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's...
Baseball beyond Borders
From Distant Lands to the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In 1973, Roberto Clemente was honored as the first baseball player born outside the continental U.S. to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the former Pittsburgh Pirate amassed 3,000 career hits and 240 home runs. Since then, eight more international players of Major...
A Moment in Time
An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
A first-hand account of the golden era of baseball from Jackie Robinson’s friend, former teammate and featured player in the 2013 biopic "42."
Ralph Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World,” the historic home...
Play Ball!
The Story of Little League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Bestselling history of Little League Baseball and the World Series now available on KINDLE. The eBook is updated through 2013! Includes a new chapter on John Grisham's movie, "Mickey," the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on the South Lawn, Pitch Counts and Arm Injuries, Child Protection...
Cuba's Baseball Defectors
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home...
Six Decades of Baseball
A Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
"...one of the most heart-felt baseball books to come out in the last few months, written not by a journalist with nice advancement but by a simple fan who put up his own money, got it self published, and got himself heard." - Tom Hoffarth, columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News
"His...
by Douglas B. Lyons, Who's Who In Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In celebration of the 100th issue of Who’s Who in Baseball—one of the game’s most venerable publications—comes a century's worth of the annual's iconic covers, insightful breakdowns of the players featured on those covers, and informative accounts of the baseball history tied to each year’s...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2004
"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange...
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
The Secret History of the Early Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.
Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball...
What Baseball Means to Me
A Celebration of Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
For some people baseball means a memory-of a certain dusty ball field on a certain summer day, or the first time they walked into a major league park and saw the perfect emerald playing field. For some, baseball means one heartbreaking or heroic moment. And for others, it means a father, a friend,...
Baseball Americana
Treasures from the Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Foreword by George F. Will
With a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
A lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.
“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. …...