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  • Stealing Home

    Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

    by Eric Nusbaum ...
    A 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 baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    by Michael Lewis ...
    "One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Road to Nowhere

    The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball

    Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by *Sports Collectors DigestRoad to Nowhere* is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees’ then reclaiming of the city and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Electric October

    Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever

    by Kevin Cook ...
    An “entertaining, well-researched” account of the first World Series to be televised—and the forgotten stories of six Yankees and Dodgers (Publishers Weekly, starred review).The 1947 World Series was “the most exciting ever” in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade’s worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and underdog Brooklyn Dodgers. It was Jackie Robinson ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Great Stuff

    Baseball's Most Amazing Pitching Feats

    by Rich Westcott ...
    Who never heard of Johnny Vander Meer’s back-to-back no-hitters? Or Christy Mathewson’s three shutouts in one World Series? Or Steve Carlton winning 27 games for a last-place team that won a total of only 59 games? These and a variety of other pitching feats comprise the contents of Rich Westcott’s latest book, Great Stuff: Baseball’s Most Amazing Pitching Feats.However, this is not a book that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Baseball Heaven

    Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues

    “With its personal feel and near-mystical quality, this highly recommended work will mesmerize baseball lovers and casual fans.” Library Journal**, Starred Review**A behind-the-scenes look at baseball history, as told through timeless interviews with major leaguersFor fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Facing Mariano Rivera

    Players Recall the Greatest Relief Pitcher Who Ever Lived

    by David Fischer ...
    Series series Facing
    The all-time career leader in saves, with 652, Mariano Rivera is one of the greatest professional athletes in history. Since taking over the closer’s role for the New York Yankees in 1997, until his retirement in 2013, Rivera saved 30 or more games in every season but one. In addition, he has an astonishing MLB record 42 postseason saves, with 11 of them coming in the World Series. After 19 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shadows of Glory

    Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories

    For baseball lovers, nothing rivals the excitement and intensity of the World Series. In Shadows of Glory, Dave Brown and Jeff Rodimer recount 18 lesser-known but fascinating stories about the Fall Classic, that range from heartwarming and heartbreaking to amusing and outrageous. Get ready to read about:The unheralded pitcher who carried a no-hitter into the ninth inningThe umpire who received ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949: 1964

    This first book by best-selling author Peter Golenbock is the inside story of the legendary Yankee teams of the Mantle/Berra/Ford/Stengel era, which appeared in an amazing 14 of 16 World Series, winning nine of them. Each season is brought back to life in colorful detail through the memories and reflections of the players--great and ordinary--of those championship teams. From the Casey Stengel’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball's Wildest Season

    Three Leagues, Thirty-Four Teams and the Chaos of 1884

    At the end of the 1883 baseball season, things looked rosy--attendance had skyrocketed and the National League and American Association were at peace. A year later, however, the sport was in total disarray. A third major league, the Union Association, had come on the scene and waged a bitter war that rocked the baseball world. By the dawn of the 1885 season, the UA had dissolved in a sea of red ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Team of Destiny

    Walter Johnson, Clark Griffith, Bucky Harris, and the 1924 Washington Senators

    by Gary Sarnoff ...
    The heartwarming underdog story of the 1924 Washington Senators.In 1924, Washington Senators team president Clark Griffith hired Bucky Harris, his twenty-seven-year-old second baseman, to manage the Senators, a decision called “Griffith’s folly.” Yet the Senators, inspired by their fiery new leader, found themselves in first place heading into the homestretch. The question remained: with an ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • How the Red Sox Explain New England

    An examination of the unique affinity New Englanders have for their Red Sox, this work illustrates how the storied history of the franchise mirrors that of New England itself. Founded in 1901 and playing in front of sold out crowds at Fenway Park for more than a century, the Boston Red Sox are far and away New England’s most beloved franchise, and this work features topics such as the team’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Juicing the Game

    Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball

    by Howard Bryant ...
    In Juicing the Game, award-winning journalist Howard Bryant offers the only big-picture look at the insidious manner in which performance-enhancing drugs infested baseball as the game’s leaders stood idly by, reaping the rewards.Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism with interviews with baseball heavyweights such as Jason Giambi, Commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr, and Hall ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cellar Dwellers

    The Worst Teams in Baseball History

    In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys won a measly 23 games, losing 113. The Cleveland Spiders topped this record when they lost an astonishing 134 games in 1899. Over 100 years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood apart as the only team in baseball history to lose 60 games before July in a season. These stories and more are told in Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History, a ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Fenway Effect

    A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox

    by David Krell ...
    To 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 matters. And life. The team’s history has intersected with the history of Boston and well beyond it, through the Curse of the Bambino, the military service of Ted Williams during World War II, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mustaches and Mayhem: Charlie O's Three-Time Champions The Oakland Athletics: 1972-74

    SABR Digital Library, #31

    Series Book 31 - SABR Digital Library
    In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Athletics, who captured major league baseball's crown each year from 1972 through 1974.Led by such superstars as future Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers, in the final years before free agency and the movement of players from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates

    Treachery and Triumph

    After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season after a monumental deal with the Louisville Colonels. The addition of star players such as Fred Clarke, Honus Wagner, Tommy Leach and Deacon Phillippe allowed Pittsburgh to become the first baseball dynasty of the twentieth century as they won National ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Why We Love Baseball

    A History in 50 Moments

    by Joe Posnanski ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerWinner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearNational Sports Media Association Sports Book of the YearAn NPR "Book of the Day"#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.**Posnanski ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

    The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

    by Jimmy Breslin ...
    Jimmy Breslin’s nostalgic, rollicking look back at the worst baseball team in historyFive years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962, attempted to play something resembling the sport of baseball.Helmed by the sagacious Casey Stengel and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Galento the Great

    The Authentic and Authorized Story of the Life and Ring Battles of Tony (Two-Ton) Galento, World’s Heavyweight Contender

    Galento the Great is the gripping biography of Tony “Two-Ton” Galento, the boxer who once fought Joe Louis—considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time—for the heavyweight title. It was written by Joseph G. Donovan in 1939, the same year Galento challenged Louis for the title.Domenico Antonio Galento (1910-1979) was an American heavyweight boxer, nicknamed “Two-Ton” for his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Willie Stargell

    A Life in Baseball

    by Frank Garland ...
    This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell. It examines the factors that shaped him as a man growing up in the tumultuous racial times of the 1950s and '60s, and then recreates the major moments in his Hall of Fame baseball career. His various endeavors during the post-playing days are fully explored as well.Interviews with more than 80 people--family members, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball

    by Donald Hall ...
    One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world. Dock's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Last Manager

    How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball

    **“Baseball books don’t get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due.” —George F. WillThe first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver—who has been described as “the Copernicus of baseball” and “the grandfather of the modern game”—The Last Manager is a wild, thrilling, and hilarious ride with baseball’s most underappreciated genius, and one of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Made Babe Ruth

    Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School

    by Brian Martin ...
    At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD