Essays & Writings 10

The long-awaited third issue of Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts is now available for all to enjoy. Featuring over 20 poems, and over 40 total pieces of fiction and creative essays, the ……続きを見る

The year was 1987 in midstate North Carolina. School had released for the summer, and the summer league baseball program was about to begin. This summer would be different than the previous years of……続きを見る

"The Last Nine Innings is the last word on the inside of baseball. It's full of wonderful revelations and perceptions that help us understand the game in ways that we might never have imagined. Char……続きを見る

A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany that’s the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees. The Devil’s Snake Curve offers an alternative American history, in wh……続きを見る

L’immagine di un lupo che ulula a una luna blucerchiata descrive, come meglio non potrebbe la “voce” dell’autore, una penna lucida e graffiante che si caratterizza per competenza calcistica, ironia ……続きを見る

Jim Prime deploys both memory and imagination in these short stories that take you from his youth on Long Island, Nova Scotia to the pitcher's mound at Fenway Park in Boston, and even deep into the ……続きを見る

With the world's eyes on Jackie Robinson, there were not many who noticed the sportswriter who traveled by the baseball star's side in 1946-47. Wendell Smith was a pioneer not only in writing, but i……続きを見る

LeRoy "Satchel" Paige was a man of many wordsーboastful, brash, bitter, wise. Maybe I'll Pitch Forever is Paige's story in his own words. It is unadulterated Satchel, as pure as knee-high smoke over……続きを見る

The 50th Anniversary edition of "the book that changed baseball" (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Non-Fiction" books. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a fir……続きを見る

Level-up your long-term baseball strategy and GET RECRUITED with insights and tips straight from college coaches!Do you have what it takes to become a top-level player at the college level?Are you l……続きを見る

This insightful collection documents Latinos in baseball from an interdisciplinary perspective. From the late, great Roberto Clemente, to Giants legend Juan Marichal to Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez……続きを見る

"The days seem like minutes, but the memories last forever." Take it from this senior citizen and proud grandfather. Luck is real. I have attended some of the best baseball games ever, always seemin……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figuresーbaseball immortal Pete Roseーand an exquisit……続きを見る

The Little Baseball Poetry Book brings together the love of baseball and poetry; it will make the perfect gift for the baseball fan and add to your baseball sports collection. Educator, Author, and ……続きを見る

The All-Star pitcher tells his incredible life story from picking coffee in the Dominican Republic to reaching MLB icon status in America. Legendary baseball pitcher Bartolo Colónーalso known as Big……続きを見る

A collection of quotes, anecdotes, and malaprops from one of baseball's wisest and wittiest personalities. New York Times–bestselling author Phil Pepe takes readers along on Yogi Berra's journey fro……続きを見る

This New York Times bestseller "takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight" (Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal). Acclaimed New Yorker writer ……続きを見る

"A true insider's perspective on the 2004 Red Sox" and their World Series win, from the bestselling author of Curse of the Bambino ( USA Today). On October 27, 2004, the Red Sox won their first Worl……続きを見る

Using America's favorite pastime as an analogy, this collection of essays teaches children how to apply the lessons learned in baseball to everyday situations. This guide, filled with invaluable adv……続きを見る

Through visiting the game's players and veterans of all ages and skill levels, a writer chronicles the state of baseball in the summer of 1976. For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn retur……続きを見る

A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual……続きを見る

"Baseball's most eloquent analyst" demonstrates why he has "long since attained the status of national treasure," in this classic essay collection ( The New York Times Book Review). Roger Angell's f……続きを見る

The acclaimed New Yorker sportswriter examines the inner working of professional baseball, in these essays from the spring of 1977 to the summer of 1981. Late Innings takes fans far beyond the stadi……続きを見る

From "the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball"ーa definitive collection of three nonfiction classics chronicling MLB into the modern age ( New York Post). In these three classic volumes, legendary ……続きを見る

Angell's absorbing collection traces the highs and lows of major-league baseball in the 1980s Roger Angell once again journeys through five seasons of America's national pastimeーchronicling the lar……続きを見る

"One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America." ー Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opp……続きを見る

A chronicle of our national pastime's most unforgettable era from the bestselling author of The Summer Gameー"No one writes better about baseball" ( The Boston Globe). Classic New Yorker sportswrit……続きを見る

A middle-aged man tries to return to baseballーand become a better husband and fatherーin this funny, heartfelt memoir by the author of A False Spring. One of baseball's original "bonus babies," Pat……続きを見る

This essay collection covers more than forty years of history, fandom, and insider analysis from "the best baseball writer of our timeーmaybe ever" ( Newsweek) The celebrated baseball chronicler has……続きを見る

A Manolo Cortina, el beisbol le llegó por la cuna. Su padre y varios tíos jugaron en las Minas de Matahambre y conquistaron la Liga Popular de Cuba en 1955. Comenzó sobre la lomita con gran talento.……続きを見る