Baseball - History
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One-Year Dynasty: Inside the Rise and Fall of the 1986 Mets, Baseball’s Impossible One-And-Done Champions
$19.95 Read moreRelive the games, moves, and players of the hard-hitting team that won the 1986 World Series. Vin Scully called the tenth-inning groundball in Game Six of the 1986 World Series–Mets versus Red Sox–t… [more below]
- Author: Silverman, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493009095
- Language: English
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
$19.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1963, Eliot Asinof’s Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as “th- Author: Asinof, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0805065377
- Language: English
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Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age
$23.99 Read moreBetween 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New York Yankees
- Series: Sports History
- Author: Bak, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0738502448
- Language: English
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The Philadelphia Phillies
$24.95 Add to cartA facsimile edition of the 1953 history of the Philadelphia Phillies
Fred Lieb and Stan Baumgartner’s history of the Philadelphia Phillies was originally published in 1953 as part of the celebrated se
- Series: Writing Sports
- Author: Baumgartner, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 259
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1606350129
- Language: English
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Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It
$24.95 Read more“Anyone who has love for the game of baseball will enjoy this remarkable book.” Library Journal, Starred Review
In Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball great
- Author: Golenbock, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538154870
- Language: English
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Picturing America’s Pastime: Historic Photography from the Baseball Hall of Fame Archives (Baseball Pictures)
$34.95 Add to cartBaseball Photography Classics
“It’s a great addition to your coffee table, or as a gift to the baseball fan in your life.” ―baseballmusings.com
#1 New Release in Photojournalism, Photo Essays, Sta
- Author: National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1642505331
- Language: English
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So You Think You Know Baseball: The Baseball Hall of Fame Trivia Book
$16.99 Add to cartThe National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is the premiere national institution celebrating the history of baseball and its place in our social and cultural landscape. It reaches more than ten mill… [more below]
- Author: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and M
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1642507695
- Language: English
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
$20.00 Add to cartMinor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real dea
- Series: Anchor Sports
- Author: Feinstein, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0307949583
- Language: English
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Stan Musial: From Donora, Pa, to St. Louis, Mo, and the Big Leagues, 2nd Edition
$17.00 Read moreStan the Man was one of the greatest baseball players to set foot on the field and he wore a Cardinals uniform his entire career. With a lifetime batting average of .331 and 475 career home runs, Stan… [more below]
- Author: Bearce, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064480
- Language: English
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Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997
$19.95 Add to cartRelive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory!
Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almos
- Author: Pluto, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1938441354
- Language: English
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research … [more below]
- Author: Kepner, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1101970855
- Language: English
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St. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know
$17.00 Read moreSt. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know!, offers a unique approach to telling the story of Cardinals baseball for fans young and old. Hundreds of vivid photos and accompanying vignettes allow… [more below]
- Author: Wheatley, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064456
- Language: English
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
$18.99 Add to cartNow available in paperback, the “fresh and fascinating” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), “splendid and brilliant” (Philadelphia Daily News) history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major L… [more below]
- Author: Thorn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0743294041
- Language: English
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Shadows of Glory: Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories
$26.95 Add to cartMany baseball fans may not be aware of lesser-known but equally engaging stories about the Fall Classic. Shadows of Glory recounts 18 of these stories and will encounter some unlikely World Series her
- Author: Brown, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081292
- Language: English
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Chicago Cubs Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History
$22.95 Add to cartIn the more than 140-year-history of the Chicago Cubs, fans have been treated to countless firsts – well-known things such as the first Cubs Black player (Ernie Banks), the first night game at Wrigley… [more below]
- Series: Sports Team Firsts
- Author: Yellon, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493074512
- Language: English
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Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War
$34.95 Add to cartWhen the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integr… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496219457
- Language: English
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Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
$19.00 Add to cartTheir names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chanc… [more below]
- Author: Rapp, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 022679024X
- Language: English
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The Pine Tar Game
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller–“a rollicking account” (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off on… [more below]
- Author: Bondy, Filip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1476777187
- Language: English
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The Story of the Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball’s All Brothers World Champions
$10.99 Add to cartThe story of the most famous all-brother, semi-pro baseball team of all time began when Mary and Martin Stanczak were forced to flee their Polish homeland for America. They settled in Illinois where,
- Author: Stanczak, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1638370001
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
