468円 Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship. The year is famous, but most fans know very little about the season. During that tumultuous summer, the Great War in Europe cast an ominous shadow over the national game, as enlistments and t...

468円 Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team. In Shortstop or Bust!, author Linda Padilla-Diaz shares a compilation of stories covering the journey through the five years her two ...

774円 "If you haven't read poetry since high school, now is the time to start!" -Richard Alderman KTRK Channel 13 (ABC Television) "Beethoven Baseball Buicks [and] Elway . These sonnets enjoy the world!" -Patricia Yongue Professor of English, University of Houston "[E]xtraordinary What fun these poems ...

1,060円 In this autobiographical sweep through the mists of baseballs past, the author recounts his summer of professional baseball as a pitcher/bus driver for a Class C team in Missoula, Montana in 1956. Long road trips through the Rockies gave him time to reflect on his place in the infrastructure of t...

1,144円 Mark Twain called baseball "the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteeth-century". This book searches the concrete actions typical of baseball games for the meaning of what they represent. For example, th...

1,506円 Welcome to the earliest days of baseball in historic Cincinnati, Ohio. Pick out your spot and don’t budge as you may lose it. “Thousands surrounded the grounds on the outside, standing in wagons, for room for which they paid liberally, sitting on the fences, and crowding into windows and on roofs...

756円 50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS 'This isn't, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant Rice talking, rambling happily along, tell again in his wonderful way the wonderful stories he lov...

3,450円 Baseball, first dubbed the “national pastime” in print in 1856, is the country’s most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men. Furthermore, baseball’s great...

3,317円 Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Rob...

150円 He's not tall enough. He's not big enough. He won't make it. Jared Robinson's career was brought to an abrupt halt after just three years of high school baseball. The right-handed pitcher had quite the résumé, winning pitcher of the year, offensive player of the year and taking home a pair of MVP...

752円 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1948) - Here is Joe DiMaggio’s inside story of baseball, an instructive and entertaining survey of the game written expressly for fan and player alike ー the bleacher fan, the sand-lot player, the high school athlete, and anyone who has ever swung a bat or whooped it up for ...

2,334円 Pete Rose holds more Major League Baseball records than any other player in history. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned great talent into legend...