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Bill Simmons. Originally Published In A Different Form By Espn Books, New York, In 2005 -- Verso.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

Jeff Blair Takes Us Back To The Days When The Toronto Blue Jays Were The Cadillac Of Franchises, And Shows Us How They Become Baseball's Premier Club. Then ...

From the moment these two legendary players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. In Celtic green ...

A story with a big heart about a boy, a coach, the game of baseball, and the game of life. "There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind...

The Definitive Story Of One Of The Greatest Dynasties In Baseball History, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.when Joe Torre Took Over As Manager Of The Yankees I...

Michael Holley.Categories: History United StatesState & Local

On New Year's Eve, 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he a...

Authorized By Willie Mays And Written By A New York Times Bestselling Author, This Is The Definitive Biography Of One Of Baseball's Immortals. Alabama Roots...

For pure exhilaration and drama, there's nothing quite like sports: It's the crack of the bat as it connects with the baseball, hurtling it into the bleac...

In 1998, the conversation of the country was about baseball again, as the taste of the 1994 strike was finally washed away in a sweet flood of glory. With h...

Terry Bradshaw -- Evander Holyfield -- Jerry West -- Byron Whizzer White -- Danielle Green -- Bill Yoast -- Joey Cheek -- Dwayne The Rock Johnson -- Dorothy...

The summer of 1967 turned out to be one of the most exciting – and improbable – seasons in the history of baseball. Dubbed “The Impossible Dream,” t...

obsessed With Baseball Explores Little Known Facts, Fascinating Anecdotes, And Great Trivia Of America's National Pastime. This Comprehensive Yet Compact Bo...

Provides complete statistics for every major league player since 1876, includes Negro league statistics for more than a hundred players, and briefly traces ...

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named ...

Guide To The Inner Workings Of Baseball's Internal System Of Justice And Sportsmanship. In The Beginning -- On Retaliation -- On Fear And Intimidation -- Sh...

in 1985, Bill James, Already Recognized As Baseball's Most Brilliant Analyst, Scholar, And Author, Unveiled A Masterwork Called the Bill James Historical B...

Ever since his astonishing victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, John Daly, known affectionately on the PGA Tour as "Big 'Un," has enthralled fans with his...

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his guntoting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk H...

Continuing in the tradition of Sports Illustrated's 50th Anniversary Book and The Football Book comes a spectacular celebration of baseball that will be tr...

The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey t...

Frank Deford.Categories: Sports & Outdoors BaseballHistory

Play, watch, and understand America's favorite pastime Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Since the public...

From an award-winning journalist, a real Field of Dreams story about a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's ...

St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's New York Times bestselling manifesto about what parents, coaches, and athletes get wrong about sports; what we c...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategi...

Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoe boxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting ...

lou Gehrig Was The Iron Horse, Baseball's Strongest And Most Determined Superstar — Struck Down In His Prime By A Disease That Now Bears His Name. But Who...

Play, watch, and understand America's favorite pastime Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Since the public...

From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays that comes more than 20 years after Joe Carter's World ...

"This book provides practical strategies for developing the mental skills which help speed you to your full potential."—-Dave Winfield What does it mean t...

In this young adult autobiography, Tony Hawk shares the stories from his life that have helped him become a skateboarding hero. Hawk speaks of being a su...

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseba...

The Field Guide To Baseball Is An Armchair Reference Guide To The Sport. It Organizes And Explains The Vague, Misleading, Confusing, Inconsistent, And Obscu...

The Complete Inside Story Of The Shocking Steroids Scandal That Made Headlines Across The Country - Told By The Award-winning Reporters Who Broke The Story ...

THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS is a glorious celebration of the Great American Game, and of the city that loves it so. It is a love affair that began in 1874, whe...

Chronicles the 1949 pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, profiling the players, owners, and fans as baseball was poised on the ...

Howell Raines has gone fly fishing with presidents of the United States and legends of the sport, as well as relatives, childhood friends, and his two sons...

From the olden days of flannel uniforms and metal spikes to those of retractable-domed stadiums and nine-figure player salaries; from the golden era of Bab...

Since Their Inception In 1977, The Toronto Blue Jays Have Been One Of The Most Dynamic Franchises In All Of Baseball. As An Award-winning, Longtime Jays Col...

Product Description The Ultimate Baseball Trivia Book\#1 New Release in Statistics and Baseball History\In this third title published by National Baseb...

Jam-packed with cool baseball trivia, history-making records, unforgettable moments, and wacky true tales of your favorite games, players and events. This b...

Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave t...

Recounts The Life Of The Hall Of Fame Ballplayer Whose Career Was Cut Short By The Disease Now Commonly Called After Him, In A Portrait That Shares Details ...

Batter up to understand baseball as you never have before with The Visual Dictionary of Baseball. Here is an entirely new kind of dictionary — one that is...

The 1988 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers are best remembered for Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run, Orel Hershiser’s pitching dominance, and man...

Ever Wonder What's Being Said at Home Plate?How a Team Silently Communicates?What Goes on in the Clubhouse Behind Closed Doors? America's pastime has alway...