1,058円 The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association. Peter Golenbock spent the season with the league champion St. Petersburg Pelicans. Like the league’s other seven teams, the Pelicans were a collection o...

2,912円 In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once againーbut this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of Caitlin, th...

1,088円 Built on material that appeared in The Washington Post, this is a raw, inside look at the wear and tear and the glory and impermanence of baseballーshortlisted for the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. At 162 games, it is the sports world’s longest season. Grueling. Thrilling. Rout...

1,326円 THE MAN WHO BATTED A THOUSAND A spectacular major-league debutーthen obscurity. On the final day of the 1963 major-league baseball season, Houston Colt .45s teen sensation John Paciorekーin his one and only big-league gameーwent three-for-three, giving him a career batting average of 1.000. He a...

3,973円 Spanning nearly fifty years and featuring hard-to-find pieces, this anthology collects the most essential writings on American baseball, boxing, and more, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sports writer of the last century and ...

0円 It was hard for Peanut to be a star player on the local baseball team, since she had never even got a chance to join them on the field. That all changed one day when a case of chicken pox suddenly struck some key teammates. Peanut did not go on to be a hall-of-famer; but she did leave her mark in...

1,326円 During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie O’Brien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. To put that accomplishment in perspective, Hall of Fame catchers Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra each work...

1,911円 Love ’em or hate ’em, the New York Yankees have long been a dominating presence on the baseball diamond for decades. And everyone has something to say about them, especially some of the franchise’s own sages, like Casey Stengel, who “couldn’t have done it without my players.” Or the inimitable Yo...

1,243円 Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, returns with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the ...

451円 The last man to win 31 games in one season tells how to pitch and how to win in baseball. Two time Cy Young Award Winner Denny McLain gives tips and techniques to become a great pitcher in America's game.

752円 Few characters soar to such dizzying heights and then plunge to the depth of despair like McLain did. But it is his ability to finally reflect on his mistakes and self-indulgences that make his story especially compelling. Winner 2015 eLit Award for Sports-Bronze Medal

1,500円 Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful and analytical look at the business of baseball by author Vince Gennaro, a consultant to MLB teams. In doing so, Gennaro addresses some key questions that affect how teams make decisions, how they assemble their roster, and ultimately, their bot...