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"Take or Attack, How to Hit While Being Measured" is much more than a book on the skill of hitting a baseball. It explores the most important aspects of hitting in its simplest form while exposing s……続きを見る

Featuring an introduction by John Schuerholz, biographies of 40 players and over a dozen coaches and front office executives, and writeups of 10 key games from the 1995 season. It has been 25 years ……続きを見る

The closer is the ace reliever who specializes in closing out the game without surrendering the lead. Facing a power hitter in the ninth inning with a man on base and no outs takes nerves of steel. ……続きを見る

In this nostalgic memoir, a son provides a unique perspective on his legendary father–the baseball star, Yogi Berra. Yogi Berra was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Cham……続きを見る

After more than 27 years of writing award-winning newspaper columns, one for 1,417 weeks in a row, Mark K. Campbell has gathered his 70 best. Find out about man-breasts, sacred sandwiches, why it's ……続きを見る

Pride of Smoketown: The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords Edited by Frederick C. Bush and Bill Nowlin Associate editors Len Levin and Carl Riechers The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords team, one of the dominant te……続きを見る

Before Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, there was Babe Didrikson Zaharias. This autobiography tells the story of one of the greatest female athletes of all time……続きを見る

Football's premier pass-catcher, Tommy McDonald, says of himself, "I'm just a little guy in a big guy's game." This five-foot-ten-inch, 175-pound fireball has proved that speed, balance, and savvy a……続きを見る

Baseball Research Journal (BRJ): Volume 49, #1 (Spring 2020 Issue) edited by Cecilia M. Tan The flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Baseball Research Journ……続きを見る

Experience a century of the pride, power, and pinstripes of the Yankees, Major League Baseball's most successful team, as told through the stories of their hometown newspaper, The New York Times. Th……続きを見る

Harvey's Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers commemorates a team that captured the hearts and imagination of baseball fans not just in Wisconsin, but around the country. Named for skipper Harvey……続きを見る

"Dirk Hayhurst has done it again. . .Turns out he's a starter and a closer." ーTim Kurkjian, ESPN As a major and not-so-major league pitcher, Dirk Hayhurst has learned to master more than striking o……続きを見る

Babe Ruth thrilled baseball fans with his tremendous home-run swing. He made friendsーand some enemiesーwith his loud, larger-than-life personality. The list of books about Ruth could fill a few boo……続きを見る

More than a century has passed since the "glorious Beaneaters" era of Boston's baseball history in the 1890s. While Boston would soon have a second baseball club that would capture the hearts of New……続きを見る

The Newark Eagles won only one Negro National League pennant during the franchise's 15-year tenure in the Garden State, but the 1946 squad that ran away with the NNL and then triumphed over the Kans……続きを見る

The 1959 Chicago White Sox broke a 40-year pennant drought on the city's South Side, begun after the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The scrappy Go-Go Sox, with pitching, fielding and timely hitting, finall……続きを見る

Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's conv……続きを見る

The majesty and magic of 1960s major league baseball created a legion of lifelong fans. The decade began with epic blasts from Bill Mazeroski and Ted Williams and ended with the Mets amazin' champio……続きを見る

Bringing fresh perspectives to the team that has brought joy, triumph and even a miracle to New York City, this collection of new essays examines portrayals of the Mets in film, television, advertis……続きを見る

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"From the moment he was born, Tex Rickard seemed to be wherever the action was. He entered the world as a posse was riding byー the posse was after the James brothers. Rickard became a trail cowboy ……続きを見る

In "You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters," Ring Lardner employs a distinctive epistolary format to narrate the experiences of a na√Øve, small-town baseball player named Jack Keefe. Through a series of……続きを見る

Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “For that period of time, he was the greatest player of my generation.”ーKeith Hernandez Dave Parker was one of the biggest and m……続きを見る

From sandlots to major league stands, two fans set out to recapture their love of the game. For most of their lives together Dale Jacobs and Heidi LM Jacobs couldn’t imagine a spring without basebal……続きを見る

What are Major League Baseball's greatest comeback games? This book set out to collect the stories of those games, but rather than throw together an anecdotally-determined collection of games, SABR ……続きを見る

Essays about baseball’s past, present, and futureーand the wisdom of Ichiro Suzuki The Only Way Is the Steady Way is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game’s ……続きを見る

"They started merely as boys. They developed into a team. And then, they became...Champions." This is the story of thirteen kids who dared to chase a dream, a dream they shared as ballplayers, and t……続きを見る

Legendary Baseball manager Casey Stengel recounts his memoirs in his inimitable style. Baseball's clown genius, Casey Stengel (1890-1975) was known as much for his hilarious double-talk as he was fo……続きを見る

William T. Tilden II was an American tennis player and is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Tilden was the World No. 1 player for six years from 1920 through 1925. He ……続きを見る

Vintage major league baseball book tells the story of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies National League Champion baseball club, as reported by a Philadelphia sportswriter who covered the team. The team……続きを見る