Books in category Baseball

Pouring Six Beers at a Time

Author: Doug Myers, Jayson Stark, Bill Giles
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN : 9781572439313
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REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM (Hardcover)

Author: Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Stewart Tabori & Chang
ISBN : 9781584797166
After the 2008 season, the seemingly immortal House That Ruth Built will shut its gates forever--to be replaced by a brand-new stadium just a homer''s length away. This edition brilliantly and beautifully documents Yankee Stadium''s entire career through a decade-by-decade account, a priceless collection of historical photographs, and, vivid, first-person reminiscences.

Emperors And Idiots

Author: MIKE VACCARO
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN : 9780767919104
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently - and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and the two stunning American League Championship Series th

Ballparks Of The Deadball Era

Author: Philip J. Lowry, Ronald M. Setler
Publisher : McFarland & Co Inc Pub
ISBN : 9780786435616
This work seeks to address an often ignored factor in the study of early 20th century baseball, namely, what was the ballpark like? The author uses original research to answer this question.

Yankee Stadium

Author: Mark Vancil, Alfred Santasiere
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN : 9781416547792
A photographic treasury, timed to coincide with the team`s final season at its current stadium, celebrates some of the most memorable moments in baseball history that have occurred there, in a fan`s compendium that features anecdotes by such contributors as George Steinbrenner, Yogi Berra, and Derek Jeter. 175,000 first printing.

We Would Have Played for Nothing (Paperback)

Author: Fay Vincent
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9781416553434
A second volume of oral history by the former Major League Baseball commissioner documents the events of the 1950s and 1960s, covering among other subjects the careers of such figures as Willie Mayes, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A Special Season

Author: Rob Rains
Publisher : Sports Pub
ISBN : 9781582616575

Just Play Ball (Paperback)

Author: Berra, Joe Garagiola
Publisher : Northland Pub
ISBN : 9780873589529
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Tales from the Arizona Diamondbacks Dugout

Author: Bob Page
Publisher : Sports Pub
ISBN : 9781582614946

Yankees Essential

Author: Joe Torre, Howie Karpin
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN : 9781572438170

Living on the Black (Paperback)

Author: John Feinstein
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN : 9780316113922
John Feinstein`s double sports biography covers the 2007 seasons of aging pitchers Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine. With their blazing fastballs long behind them, the two must use a combination of experience and guile to keep their form. In the end, both the Yankees` and Mets` 2007 seasons were disastrous, so Feinstein`s book is less about sports glory than about the dogged determination of brilliant

Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut (Paperback)

Author: William J. Ryczek, David Arcidiacono
Publisher : McFarland & Co Inc Pub
ISBN : 9780786436774
Its been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseballand many fans today might be surprised to learn that the state ever didbut in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded pioneering professional teams that competed at the highest level. By the end of the decade, when the states final big league team, Mark Twain''s beloved Hartford Dark Blues, left the National Leagu

Tales from the Diamondback Dugout

Author: Bob Page
Publisher : Sports Pub
ISBN : 9781582616650

No Longer a Game

Author: John Rosengren
Publisher : Sourcebooks Inc
ISBN : 9781402209567
That one memorable summer changed baseball forever.

After Many a Summer (Hardcover)

Author: Robert Murphy
Publisher : Union Square Pr
ISBN : 9781402760686
Robert Murphy examines the myriad factors which led to the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants both abandoning New York for the west coast in 1957.

American Icon (Hardcover)

Author: Michael O`Keeffe, Nathaniel Vinton, Teri Thompson, Christian Red
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN : 9780307271808
Four journalists from the sports investigative division of the NY Daily News provide this full report on the extraordinary demise of baseball great Roger Clemens amidst allegations of steroid use. Within a matter of days, Clemens went from being universally acknowledged as one of the greatest athletes of all-time to being the central figure in an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Th

Faith and Fear in Flushing (Hardcover)

Author: Jason Fry, Greg Prince
Publisher : Skyhorse Pub Co Inc
ISBN : 9781602396814
A lighthearted account of fan culture surrounding the New York baseball franchise, written by the creator of the popular Mets blog by the same title, address the unique qualities of the team`s fandom while covering such topics as their history-making 1969 season, their 1986 comeback, and their transition from Shea Stadium to Citi Field.

Pouring Six Beers at a Time (Paperback)

Author: Doug Myers, Jayson Stark, Bill Giles
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN : 9781600782565
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USA Today Baseball Scorebook (Paperback)

Author: Rob McMahon
Publisher : Sterling Innovation
ISBN : 9781402762451
Take this out to the ball game! From USA TODAY comes a fun, one-stop shop for baseball lovers. Featuring 100 red-and-blue scorecards (more than enough for all the home games) and a section for autographs, it''s essential gear for a day at the ballpark. And there''s more, too, including a lavishly illustrated history of baseball, a long list of record holders, and instructions on how to keep score-

Baseball`s Hall of Fame-or Hall of Shame? (Paperback)

Author: Robert Cohen
Publisher : Cardoza Pub
ISBN : 9781580422321
Shares revisionist perspectives on baseball`s lesser-known but significant athletic contributors at various points in the game`s history, drawing on scholarly resources to evaluate the Hall of Fame`s selection process and its perspectives on controversies linked to performance-enhancing drugs. Original.