Baseball Books
Fup Books Rube Waddell King of the Hall of Flakes
£32.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Playing Games at CNN
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£15.72
Golden Driller Media Tulsa Baseball History 2026 Edition
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£14.24
LEGARE STREET PR El El Base Ball En La Habana Matanzas Y Cardenas
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£23.70
Legare Street Press How to Play Third Base
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£21.80
Legare Street Press Baseball
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£24.65
Legare Street Press How to Play First Base
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£22.75
Legare Street Press How to Play Second Base
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Legare Street Press How to Play Second Base
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£22.75
Legare Street Press The The Spalding Baseball Collection
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£21.80
LEGARE STREET PR Chadwicks Base Ball Manual
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£22.75
Creative Media Partners, LLC Spaldings Official College Base Ball Annual. 1911
£18.99
Creative Media Partners, LLC The Mitchell Report
£13.95
MindSpark Publishing 100 MindBlowing Baseball Facts
£12.96
St Martin's Press The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Book SynopsisThe Only Rule Is It Has to Work. Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team. What would happen if two statistics minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team?
£12.99
Picador USA The Chicago Cubs
Book SynopsisThe 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 memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs.When Rich Cohen was eight years old, his father took him to see a Cubs game. On the way out of the park, his father asked him to make a promise. Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win, he explained, and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life. Cohen became not just a Cubs fan but one of the biggest Cubs fans in the world. In this book, he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days. Billy Sunday and Ernie Banks, Three Finger Brown and Ryne Sandberg, Bill Buckner, the Bartman Ball, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzothe early dominance followed by a 107 year t
£15.30
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Year of the Pitcher Bob Gibson Denny McLain and
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£12.34
Xlibris Corporation Pankration An Olympic Combat Sport Volume I
£26.43
Xlibris Corporation Pankration An Olympic Combat Sport Volume II
£26.43
Simon & Schuster Long Shot
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£17.09
£18.57
iUniverse Encyclopedia of Baseball Statistics
£27.49
Simon & Schuster What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now
£10.08
Ebookit.com Rehab to Throw Like a Pro The Clinicians Guide
£14.24
Independent Publisher Winning With Honor
£13.58
AuthorHouse Benny and Babe
£17.56
Globe Pequot Shocktober
Book SynopsisBaseball'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 just a few of the memorable moments that have dominated highlight reels. The outcome of the Series has not always been terribly surprisingespecially during the late 1940s and early 1950s when the Yankees captured five consecutive championships, breaking their previous record of four straight titles from 1936 to 1939. But in spite of its predictability at times, the Fall Classic has taken many unexpected turns. The 1906 Cubs lost to the weak-hitting White Sox after establishing a new regular season record for wins. The 1955 Dodgers avenged seven prior October failures with an improbable victory over the seemingly invincible Yankees. And in 1969, the Mets finally shed their image as loveable losers, dethroning the powerful Orioles. In more than a century of World Series plays, a number of similar scenarios have emerged. Twenty-two of those stories are told in Shoctober. The book also includes an appendix of game statistics as well as a section on World Series trivia.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield The Reshaping of America's Game: Major League
Book SynopsisThe Reshaping of America's Game describes the major developments and challenges that took place in Major League Baseball during the 25-plus years following the players' strike, including cheating scandals, steroids, analytics, and changing demographics.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield A Time for Reflection
Book SynopsisA fascinating look back at the incredible lives and careers of Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, part of the second generation of Black ballplayers who followed in the footsteps of Jackie Robinson.Professional baseball has featured a bevy of superstars over the past century and a half, but only a few of them have impacted their sport and cities as deeply as Willie McCovey and Billy Williams. Born just a handful of miles apart in 1938, they grew up playing baseball in and around one of the sport's true cradles, Mobile, Alabama, on their way to producing two iconic careers in the major leagues. In A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, Jason Cannon weaves together the stories of McCovey and Williams to provide an up close and personal perspective of their lives and Hall of Fame careers. Often overshadowed by their teams' superstars, these two players, through hard work and strength of character, overcame difficult times, formidable obstacles, and hideous racism to become two of baseball's best. Their leadership and dedication to their clubsMcCovey spent 19 of his seasons playing for the San Francisco Giants and Williams played 16 seasons for the Chicago Cubsmade them beloved by fans and teammates alike. Featuring original interviews with family members, friends, teammates, and Williams himself, A Time for Reflection brings to life their monumental accomplishments on the diamond while also detailing how these two legends grew into pillars of San Francisco and Chicago and inspired future generations of ballplayers.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield All the Way
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Rowman & Littlefield Selling Baseball
Book SynopsisA fascinating look back on baseball's humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominated the game.The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of base ball, and players George Wright and Albert Spalding were right in the thick of it. These two young men, the first superstars of the professional game, won the hearts of a country in search of a unifying spirit after a devastating civil war.Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America breathes fresh energy into baseball's origin story with this captivating tale of two vibrant personalities whose rivalry cum friendship was integral to the rise of the professional game. While they came from starkly different backgroundsAlbert Spalding was a young, gangly pitcher from the country's heartland and George Wright was the consummate athlete from New York Citytheir captivating performances on the field and promotion of the game and sports equipment off it fed the public's insatiable appetite for leisure-time pursuits and helped grow professional baseball to unprecedented heights.George Wright and Albert Spalding's stories are masterfully woven together to paint a sweeping picture of the early days of professional baseball, the evolution of sports as a business, and the advancement of sports equipment and the sporting goods industry. Their rise as players and businessmen mirrored the rise of a nation that would lead the world in the coming century.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Lets Play Two
Book SynopsisWhen Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs. Known affectionately as Mr. Cub, he brought exceptional talent and boundless optimism to the game of baseball, earning him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Hall of Fame.In Let's Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, Doug Wilson explores the life of one of baseball's most immortal figures, from his humble beginnings as a young boy living in the segregated South to his last few years and the public battles over his remains and will. Drawing on interviews of those close to Banks from all stages of his life, Wilson presents a portrait of the baseball player not just as an athlete, but also as a complex man with ambitious goals and hidden pains. Ernie Banks's enthusiasm and skill transcended issues of race and helped him to become one of the most highly-regarded men in baseball. Offering details that have never before been printed, this book discusses Banks's athletic prowess as well as the legacy he left behind. Let's Play Two is the essential Ernie Banks biography for sports fans and historians alike.
£999.99
Basic Books The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New
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£15.29
Ivan R Dee, Inc Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The
Book SynopsisHere, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year, as Bill Veeck notes in his Introduction, "preserving for all time a remarkable tale of ineptitude, mediocrity, and abject failure." Indeed the 1962 Mets were the worst major league baseball team ever to take the field. (The title of the book is a quote from Casey Stengel, their manager at the time.) Breslin casts the Mets, who lost 120 games out of a possible 162 that year, as a lovable bunch of losers. And, he argues, they were good for baseball, coming as a welcome antidote to "the era of the businessman in sports...as dry and agonizing a time as you would want to see." Although they were written forty years ago, many of Breslin's comments will strike a chord with today's sports fan, fed up with the growing commercialism of the games. Against this trend Breslin sets the exploits of "Marvelous" Marv Throneberry, Stengel, and the rest of the hapless Mets. "Wonderful."—Charles Salzberg, New York Times. "A touching, enjoyable, and interesting addition to anybody's sports reading list."—Patrick ConwayTrade ReviewPart sports, part politics, all New York, it tells the story of the American metropolis changing with the help of the likes of Marvelous Marv Throneberry and Choo Choo Coleman. -- Dermot McEvoy * Publishers Weekly *Breslin's well-written book remains a hilarious read. -- Jeff Diamant * Newark Star Ledger *A magnificent account of the 1962 New York Mets; their first season in existence. * New York Sun *Mets fans will enjoy this book, as will general history buffs. * MLB.com *
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
£18.90
Triumph Books Red Sox Fans Are from Mars, Yankees Fans Are from Uranus: Why Red Sox Fans Are Smarter, Funnier, and Better Looking (In Language Even Yankee Fans Can Understand)
Book SynopsisA tongue-in-cheek look at the complicated love-hate relationship between Red Sox and Yankees fans, how and why it developed, what accounts for the animosity and the grudging respect, and why it and continues to dominate the baseball landscape, this book provides the only well-constructed tutorial on how both tribes can peaceably coexist. With only around 200 miles of terra firma dividing the two capitals of the "Empire" and the "Nation," Wasif attempts to bring peace to the Northeast through understanding. The humorous book also has key terms, charts, testimonials, quizzes, and even drawings that will save fans from emotional distress and time-consuming arguments.
£12.56
The Perseus Books Group The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
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£999.99
Sunbury Press, Inc. Stealing First and Other Old-Time Baseball Stories
£12.93
Sunbury Press, Inc. I Am Not a Baseball Bozo: Honoring Good Players Who Played on Terrible Teams - 1920 to 1999
£12.93
University of Tennessee Press Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American Culture
Book SynopsisWhether loved or reviled, the New York Yankees have had an impact on American culture that extends well beyond baseball. Since the early twentieth century, movies, novels, memoirs, pop songs, and even TV sitcoms have either dealt directly with the Bronx club and its star players or incorporated key elements of Yankee iconography. In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation’s larger cultural narrative.In 1920, with their acquisition of Babe Ruth, the Yankees rose to prominence. With his power-hitting style attracting legions of new fans, the “Great Bambino” became a national hero of the Roaring Twenties. In contrast to Ruth’s flamboyance, his less flashy successors Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio captured the spirit of striving and courage that carried America through the Depression and WWII years. The Pride of the Yankees, a popular movie celebrating Gehrig’s career, and the Hemingway novella The Old Man and the Sea, whose protagonist reveres DiMaggio, typified the trend.Mirroring the nation’s postwar swagger and confidence, the club of the Mickey Mantle–era remained hugely popular, but “Yankee hating” set in as well. Novels like Mark Harris’s The Southpaw and Douglas Wallop’s The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant signified a widespread resentment of the team’s outsized dominance. Amid the national turmoil of the 1960s, the Yankees also went into decline. In the following decades, as player salaries soared and team infighting grabbed headlines, the once-glowing portrayals of the team gave way to tell-all books like Ball Four and The Bronx Zoo. Yet, as this informative and entertaining book amply shows, the Yankees have, through all their ups and downs, retained a hold on the American imagination unmatched by any other sports franchise.
£37.00
University of Tennessee Press Retro Ball Parks: Instant History, Baseball, and the New American City
Book SynopsisOriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore opened in 1992 as an intentional antidote to the modern multiuse athletic stadium. Home to only one sport and featuring accents of classic parks of previous generations. Oriole Park attempted to reconstitute Baltimore’s past while serving as a cornerstone of downtown redevelopment. Since the gates opened at Camden yards, more than a dozen other American cities have constructed “new old” major league parks – Cleveland, Detroit, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Houston, Arlington, Texas, and San Diego. In Retro Ball Parks, Daniel Rosenweig explores the cultural and economic role of retro baseball parks and traces the cultural implications of re-creating the old in new urban spaces. According to Rosenweig, the new urban landscape around these retro stadiums often presents a more homogenous culture than the one the new park replaced. Indeed, whole sections of cities have razed in order to build stadiums that cater to clientele eager to enjoy a nostalgic urban experience. This mandate to draw suburban residents and tourists to the heart of downtown, combined with the accompanying gentrification of these newly redeveloped areas, has fundamentally altered historic urban centers. Focusing on Cleveland’s Jacobs Field as a case study, Rosenweig explores the political economy surrounding the construction of downtown ball parks, which have emerged as key components of urban entertainment-based development. Blending economic and cultural analysis, he considers the intersection of race and class in these new venues. For example, he shows that African American consumers in the commercial district around Jacobs Field have largely been replaced by symbolic representations of African American culture, such as piped-in rap music and Jackie Robinson replica jerseys. He concludes that the question of authenticity, the question of what it means to simultaneously commemorate and commodify the past in retro ball parks, mirrors larger cultural issues regarding the nature and implications of urban redevelopment and gentrification.
£25.60
Allegro Editions Jackie Robinson: My Own Story
£16.56
Green Publishing House Developing a Pitcher
£48.97
Echo Point Books & Media Dog Days: The New York Yankees' Fall from Grace and: Return to Glory,1964-1976
£21.49
Triumph Books (IL) The Franchise San Francisco Giants
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£19.44
Triumph Books (IL) L.A. Story
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£24.00
HarperCollins Focus Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous,
Book SynopsisA wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it.Join professional baseball broadcaster Tim Hagerty for a journey through the zaniest Minor League stories in Tales from the Dugout. Given its long history, it is no surprise that the game has encountered some bizarre things over the years. This humorous and outlandish collection of stories is sourced from newspaper archives and the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York, and includes a foreword by former MLB All-Star Billy Butler. Whether you're a baseball fanatic or just a fan of sports history, this book captures the spirit of the game.This compendium of minor league shenanigans includes: HOLE IN ONE: In 1942, a Milwaukee Brewers batter hit a low line drive that bounced down the right field line. He rounded the bases while confused Louisville Colonels fielders searched for the ball. They eventually found it inside a gopher hole. MONKEYING AROUND: A chimp's escape turned a Southern Association game into pandemonium on July 17, 1909. "Henry the Chimpanzee," the New Orleans Pelicans' official mascot, busted from his cage and chased players around the field. The chimp then went after fans, who ran from him screaming. The game was delayed a few minutes while Henry was restrained. HEADLESS CRUSHER: A police department in Ohio got a call about a missing head. The Lake Erie Crushers' mascot's head was stolen in 2011, forcing the mascot to miss a few home games. After learning through media reports that police were investigating, the thief returned the head by inconspicuously placing it under the ballpark's tarp. Trade Review'[A] relentlessly entertaining collection of vignettes of strange and sometimes surprising moments in the minors.' * -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *'A collection of memorable stories . . . the minors are fertile ground for good tales.' * -Boston Globe *'A great, easy to digest read. It's a lot of fun.' * -Matt Vasgersian, MLB Network *'Go get this book!' * -Bill Ripken, 12-year major league player and current MLB Network analyst *'I devoured Tim's book over the course of a couple of days. It's fantastic... I love the illustrations. For anyone out there who has a child in their life who loves baseball, this is a book for all ages.' * -Rob Neyer, former ESPN and Fox Sports baseball writer and the author of the CASEY Award winning book Powerball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game *'I love the format. It's bite-sized stories with lots of cool cartoon drawings. It would make a great gift for a baseball lover or anyone who enjoys humor.' * -Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio host *'I love this book. It's fantastic because of the short length of the stories and how much fun they all are.' * -Matt Pauley, KMOX Radio *'It's like a minor-league Weird and Wild column. Full of amazing and hilarious tidbits. Great stuff from Tim Hagerty!' * -Jayson Stark *'The ideal bedside reading book for any good baseball fan. It is a phenomenally researched compendium of all sorts of amazing anecdotes tumbling out of minor league ball dating from the 1880s to the current day.' * -Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe and ESPN's Around the Horn *'Tim Hagerty's collection of anecdotes is a must-read for fans of Minor League Baseball.' * -Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune *'We received six baseball books in July and the absolute favorite was Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball. Hundreds of stories we wish we had on Baseball Almanac. Great work.' * -Baseball Almanac *'Filled with wonderful stories that could only come from the world of Minor League Baseball. It's a joy!' * -Jesse Agler, San Diego Padres broadcaster *
£999.99
Booklocker.com Outside the Fence
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