Baseball category: 2631 books
Baseball in Blue and Gray
The National Pastime during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation...
by Baseball Prospectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business Now in its 19th edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: The 2014 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise,...
by Jason Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Historically, people that have had the most interest in fantasy baseball have been statistic junkies and lovers of baseball in general. People who immerse themselves into spreadsheets and stare at computer screens to develop strategies have made a name for themselves in the industry. With technological...
Baseball
The People's Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1991
In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study -The Early Years and The Golden Age -won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every...
Cuba Loves Baseball
A Photographic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
According to the New York Times, Cuba is at an historic turning point. As Cuba catches up with political and economic changes, baseball will inevitably catch up and change as well. In Cuba Loves Baseball, photographer Ira Block, who has spent the past three years photographing the culture of Cuba...
The Baseball Talmud
The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical narration of Major League Jewish Baseball in America. All the stats, the facts, the stories, and the (often unheralded) glory.
The Baseball Talmud...
From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors
SABR Digital Library, #55
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Just in time for the Academy Awards, SABR"s book of baseball's "matinee stars."
For well over a century, stars and supporting players on baseball
diamonds have become stars and supporting players in the movies,
on Broadway, in vaudeville and, eventually, on television and in
concert...
Baseball Goes West
The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed...
by Susan Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s...
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
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Predictably 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 surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means...
by Baseball Prospectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The 2019 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.
PLAY BALL! The 24th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several...
The Presidents and the Pastime
The History of Baseball and the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith’s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the “most American” sport, and the U.S. presidency.
Smith, who USA TODAY calls “America’s voice of...
by National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Featuring more than 200 full-color photographs, Inside the Baseball Hall of Fame brings to vivid life the greatest treasures of baseball’s shrine, most of them rarely if ever displayed to visitors.
For any baseball fan, a trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown,...
by Geoff Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
“Intangibles is filled with lessons and tools for helping baseball players in all stages of their development.”
—Fredi Gonzalez, Manager, Atlanta Braves
“Geoff Miller is insightful in explaining the mental aspect of baseball with real issues, simple terms and practical solutions.”
—Dave...