Baseball - History
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Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series
$34.95 Add to cartStarting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever publ… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496230809
- Language: English
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The Baseball Ultimate Trivia Book: Test Your Superfan Status and Relive the Most Iconic Baseball Moments
$16.99 Add to cartPut your baseball expertise to the test with over 600 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite baseball moments throughout history.
Quiz yourself or compete- Series: Ultimate Trivia
- Author: Spada, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0760393710
- Language: English
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Diamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups
$24.95 Add to cartDiamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups takes a magnifying glass to some of the game’s most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers.
- Author: Nogowski, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493084828
- Language: English
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True Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Told by the Men Who Lived It
$14.99 Add to cartIn 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums, whose exploits inside — and outside — the white lines h
- Author: Delsohn, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0380806150
- Language: English
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Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning baseball writer and coauthor of Ninety Percent Mental, an unprecedented look at the job of Major League Baseball managers–showing how they shape the game, and how the ever-chan… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 306832704
- Language: English
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A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey
$32.95 Add to cartWillie McCovey, known as “Stretch,” played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome left-handed power hitter, McCo… [more below]
- Author: Haft, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496236246
- Language: English
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Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
$35.00 Add to cartAn authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s … [more below]
- Author: Early, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1984863223
- Language: English
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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
$19.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES bestseller
Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year An NPR “Book of the Day” #1 New York Times bestselling- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593472683
- Language: English
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The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football “knocks it out of the park” (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and mem
- Author: Cohen, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1250192781
- Language: English
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The Ultimate San Francisco Giants Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Giants Fans!
$9.85 Add to cartCalling all San Francisco Giants fans
The Ultimate San Francisco Giants Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the G-Men. You will be tested on your knowledge of min
- Author: Walker, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1953563120
- Language: English
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
$45.50 Read moreA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond base… [more below]- Author: Nusbaum, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1541742214
- Language: English
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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
$18.99 Add to cartThe riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major
- Author: Epplin, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250266319
- Language: English
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Dewey: Behind the Gold Glove
$30.00 Add to cartFor twenty Major League seasons, the name Dwight Evans was synonymous with sterling defense and a potent bat. A Red Sox legend, he played in 2,505 games in Boston – second only to Carl Yastrzemski –
- Author: Evans, Dwight
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 163727565X
- Language: English
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
$40.00 Add to cartWhen Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball’s beloved “Su… [more below]
- Author: James, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: June 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0743227220
- Language: English
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Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing
$19.00 Read more“A baseball book that reads like a spy novel–a story about cheaters and the cheated that has the power to forever change how we feel about the game.” –Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor and host of The 11… [more below]
- Author: Martino, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593311434
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Wrigley Field
$24.99 Read moreWrigley Field is the second oldest ballpark currently in use in the major leagues, but it ranks first in the hearts of Cubs fans. Rooting for the home team from the corner of Clark and Addison to smal… [more below]
- Series: Images of Baseball
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0738533750
- Language: English
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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game
$16.99 Add to cart“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” –Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax
From Pulitzer Prize-winning New Y
- Author: Barry, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0062014498
- Language: English
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Bad Boys, Bad Times: The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941
$24.95 Read moreIn 1937, the Great Depression was still lingering, but at baseball parks across the country there was a sense of optimism. Major League attendance was on a sharp rise. Tickets to an Indians game at Le
- Author: Longert, Scott H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0821423800
- Language: English
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Best Mets: Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York’s Most Agonizingly Amazin’ Team
$16.95 Read moreAs the New York Mets celebrate their fiftieth anniversary of National League baseball, this rollicking chronicle recounts a half century of the team’s ups and downs. Chapters recount the best and wors… [more below]
- Author: Silverman, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1589796705
- Language: English
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The Twins in the Dome
$39.95 Read more‘The Dome was our signature.” –Torii Hunter
- Author: Showers, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1634890604
- Language: English
