Baseball - History
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Out of the Mouth of Babe: Babe Ruth on Life: Pitching, Hitting, Striking Out, and Coming Back Swinging
$16.99 Add to cartA collection of quotes compiled by the author of The House that Ruth Built, Kelly Bennett, in collaboration with Brent Stevens, Babe Ruth’s great-grandson, and Stu Dressler, a long-time friend of the… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1641705779
- Language: English
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The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978
$21.95 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area sportswriters labeled the growing group of born-again Christians on the San Francisco Giants the “God Squad.” When the God Squadders helped propel the tea
- Author: Sieger, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1631322184
- Language: English
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The Franchise: San Francisco Giants: A Curated History of the Orange and Black
$22.00 Add to cartIn The Franchise: San Francisco Giants, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Pavlovic, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1637271565
- Language: English
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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
$18.00 Add to cartFor six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball’s unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O’Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players an
- Author: Olney, Buster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061672874
- Language: English
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The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees’ unprecedented talent with this gripping account from a reporter who was there for the team’s dominating 125 wins.
The visiting clubhouse in San- Author: Curry, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1538722984
- Language: English
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The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
$34.95 Add to cartTo be a part of Red Sox Nation is to be a hopeful romantic who neither betrays loyalty nor surrenders hope in the direst of circumstances. From Bangor to Back Bay, New Englanders endure in baseball ma… [more below]
- Author: Krell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623233X
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Season
$20.00 Read moreIn 1984, fantasy became reality in the Motor City. Led by ace Jack Morris, a historic season from lefty Willie Hernandez, and a thumping lineup powered by Kirk Gibson, Chet Lemon, and Lance Parrish,
- Author: Parrish, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1637278489
- Language: English
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Cincinnati Soul
$18.95 Add to cartCincinnati Soul resurrects the inspiring legacies of the Cincinnati Tigers, the Cincinnati Cuban Stars, and other Black baseball teams in Cincinnati.
It sheds light on the players’ remarkable skills, w… [more below]
- Author: Lautenslager, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1636986153
- Language: English
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Interstate ’85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series
$34.95 Add to cartFor 40 years now, the 1985 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals has been largely overlooked, save for the enduring notoriety of umpire Don Denkinger’s infamous missed ca… [more below]
- Series: Sports and American Culture
- Author: Garvey, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0826223273
- Language: English
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Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson
$32.95 Add to cartIf there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher “Christy” Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamb… [more below]
- Author: Gaff, Alan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243277
- Language: English
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Legendary Ballparks: Moments and Memories from America’s Most Storied Stadiums
$34.99 Add to cartTake a grand-slam tour of North America’s best-loved ballparks with this visually stunning, fact-packed book that includes 15 removable pieces of baseball ephemera.
Featuring nostalgic images from acr- Author: Enders, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0785845410
- Language: English
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Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams
$22.95 Add to cartOn May 1, 1951, Orestes “Minnie” Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. Th… [more below]
- Author: Zminda, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088492
- Language: English
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Kansas Baseball
$24.99 Read moreBaseball has long been synonymous with Kansas. Go back to the late 1800s and the birth of Walter Johnson and George Sweatt, Humboldt kids who played baseball at the highest level but in different leag
- Series: Sports
- Author: Travis, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158747
- Language: English
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Shocktober: The Biggest Upsets in World Series History
$24.95 Add to cartBaseball’s October showcase has provided some high drama over the years. Willie Mays’s spectacular catch in 1954, Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off homer in 1960, and Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit blast in 1988 are
- Author: Weeks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087037
- Language: English
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The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
$30.00 Add to cart“Baseball books don’t get any better than this…Earl Weaver has at last been given his due.” –George F. Will
The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver–who has bee- Author: Miller, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668030926
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Yankee Book: From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and Legendary Personalities–A Hist
$35.00 Read moreThe perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people and stories from the team’s creation in
- Author: Frommer, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1624144330
- Language: English
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More Amazing Mets Trivia
$24.95 Add to cartBuilding on the success of Amazing Mets Trivia, published in 2003, More Amazing Mets Trivia tests the memories of Mets fans of all ages with almost five hundred new questions about such Mets stars as
- Author: Samelson, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1493072250
- Language: English
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Cape Dreams: A Season with the Brewster Whitecaps
$18.99 Add to cartCAPE DREAMS-A SEASON WITH THE BREWSTER WHITECAPS
FOREWORD BY PETER GAMMONS
Tucked away on the shores of Cape Cod Bay there lies one of the greatest amateur athletic organizations in American sport’s hi
- Author: Epstein, Mark A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218620240
- Language: English
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From St. Louis to Cooperstown: Legends Born and Made in the Gateway City
$32.00 Read more- Author: Wheatley, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1681065789
- Language: English
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Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves
$32.95 Add to cartThe unlikely story of one of baseball’s greatest comeback seasons
The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place as
- Author: Bush, Martin H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1606354949
- Language: English
