Essays & Writings 5

Fail Better uses the sport of baseball as the entry point for a philosophical examination of the beneficial lessons that failure can offer humanity. Unlike many philosophers, Kingwell's style is ope……続きを見る

Bryce Harper’s unprecedented ascent to the major leagues, from a 17-year-old first overall draft pick to a headline-creating, 19-year-old rookie center fielder for the Washington Nationals, dropped ……続きを見る

Um 1900 waren die beiden Sportarten Baseball und Cricket in den USA sehr populär und fanden ungefähr gleich viele Anhänger. Doch dann erlebte plötzlich nur Baseball einen starken Boom und Cricket wu……続きを見る

Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captu……続きを見る

A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. It’s……続きを見る

First published in 1927, Jack Johnson’s autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: “I am astounded when I re……続きを見る

Originally published in 1958, this is the autobiography of renowned U.S. boxing writer and collector, Nat Fleischer. It not only tells the fascinating story of the author himself, but crucially allo……続きを見る

AT BATーWITH BILL STERN Baseball is a game rooted deep in the heart of America. I’ve loved it ever since I was a kid old enough to yell: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game!” As long as I can remember, I’……続きを見る

“To millions there has never a fighter like Jack Dempsey, and there never will be again.” Originally published in 1960, this is the autobiography from boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey himsel……続きを見る

Written by and for baseball fans (or those trying to live with one), this collection of essays joins a perennial conversation all fans have--"Why do we love baseball?" Thirty contributors share pers……続きを見る

Life had not been kind to young Tommy Riggsーand even though he had all the natural playing ability to become a Major Leaguer, his anger at the world kept him from becoming the great player he could……続きを見る

The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball’s endless possibilityーthe way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game……続きを見る

How do you measure success? Baseball players, for instance, can fail seven out of ten times at the plate and go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. So why do you think you need to bat 1.000? Swing for the……続きを見る

An informal autobiography of the old-time professional baseball pitcher and entertainer, Al Schacht. The Bronx-born Schacht pitched for a decade in the minors with the New York Giants, then the old ……続きを見る

First published in 1963, the year Russ Hodges started his fifteenth season as the voice of the Giants, MY GIANTS is the story of the man who has lived and died with the team through years that have ……続きを見る

When authors Billy Staples and Rich Herschlag are asked to write a baseball column for The Trentonian, they decide to put their own stamp on it. Covering primarily Philadelphia and New York, they fo……続きを見る

"...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 publishe……続きを見る

Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship. The year is famous, but most fans know very little about the season. During that tumultuous ……続きを見る

Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team. In Shortstop or Bust!, author Lind……続きを見る

"If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!" -Richard Alderman KTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television) "Beethoven Baseball Buicks [and] Elway . These sonnets enjoy the world!" ……続きを見る

In this autobiographical sweep through the mists of baseballs past, the author recounts his summer of professional baseball as a pitcher/bus driver for a Class C team in Missoula, Montana in 1956. L……続きを見る

Mark Twain called baseball "the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteeth-century". This book searches the……続きを見る

Welcome to the earliest days of baseball in historic Cincinnati, Ohio. Pick out your spot and don’t budge as you may lose it. “Thousands surrounded the grounds on the outside, standing in wagons, fo……続きを見る

50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS ‘This isn’t, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant……続きを見る

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 losin……続きを見る

Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when con……続きを見る

He's not tall enough. He's not big enough. He won't make it. Jared Robinson's career was brought to an abrupt halt after just three years of high school baseball. The right-handed pitcher had quite ……続きを見る

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1948) - Here is Joe DiMaggio’s inside story of baseball, an instructive and entertaining survey of the game written expressly for fan and player alike ー the bleacher fan, the ……続きを見る

Pete Rose holds more Major League Baseball records than any other player in history. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He i……続きを見る

In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate, second-hand r……続きを見る