3,144円 "Scientific analysis intersects with flat-out fandom. [Gould] could write, he was funny, and he loved, loved baseball."ーBooklist Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloq...

559円 In Baseball Karma & The Constitution Blues, Ronnie Norpel gives us a play-by-play, behind-the-scenes account of a woman learning about life, luck, love and superstitions during her youthful days as a (real-life) ballgirl and front office representative for a top-level major league baseball team. ...

422円 The Business & Politics of Sports contains over 100 of Evan Weiner’s columns written between 1998 and 2005 that describe the power plays, players, media and political (federal, state and local) connections, which rule the 19 billion dollar a year business of sports. At the heart of Evan Weiner’s ...

2,065円 Hall of Famer Robin Roberts was baseball's most dominant pitcher from 1950 to 1955. He was the ace of the Whiz Kids rotation that led the Phillies to the NL pennant in 1950. In 1966 Roberts introduced Marvin Miller to the players' union, a major chapter in baseball history.

2,334円 Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed,...

777円 A comic lineup of stories, essays, cartoons, and more, from Lardner and Runyon to Philip Roth, Charles Addams to Charles Schulz, plus dozens of other funny fans. "The best baseball book of the season." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review. B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.

2,069円 Taking baseball fans behind the microphone, into locker rooms, and through the most memorable season in Texas Rangers history, this firsthand account from announcer Josh Lewin is both insightful and entertaining. Recounting the Rangers' struggles during their pivotal 2010 seasonーwhen the Rangers...

1,326円 In 2012, SABR named F.C. Lane as an honoree of the Chadwick Award, given to baseball's greatest researchers. Lane (1896-1984) was the editor and a prolific writer for Baseball Magazine from 1912 through 1937, and then served as editor of the Little Red Book of Major League baseball through 1948. ...

2,334円 "One of the most enjoyable, satisfying sports books I have ever had the pleasure to read." ーJeff Pearlman author, Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won! Yogi Berra once said: “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” But for lifelong baseball aficionado Emma Span, it hasn’t always been that...

2,069円 When Mickey McDermott came up with the Red Sox at 19, the buzz was that his 100-mph fastball could make his the greatest southpaw ever. But McDermott took his eye off the ball to have a ball. His focus became booze, broads and baseball (in that order) before he struck it rich in 1991 by winning $...

1,867円 A hilairious inside baseball account of year in the minor leagues Odd Man Out captures the gritty essence of our national pastime as it is played outside the spotlight. Matt McCarthy, a decent left-handed starting pitcher on one of the worst squads in Yale history, earned a ticket to spring train...

1,393円 In Good Wood, New York Times contributor Stuart Miller takes readers on a journey through the rich and storiedーand occasionally nefariousーstory of the baseball bat and those who have made them and swung them. With over 50 photos, Miller reveals the creation, history, and development of the bat,...