496円 If you love the game of baseball, this book is a must read. If you're trying to understand the game, no more eloquent writer will take you by the hand. James Thomas Farrell’s "Studs Lonigan" books are considered among the best of the 20th century. Like ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series, Farrell...

2,382円 Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this mo...

1,058円 The Impossible Dream 1967 Red Sox is the story of the incredible team that captured the heart of New England and give birth to Red Sox Nation. Herb Crehan’s intimate and detailed account of that wonderful season could not have been written without the author’s unparalleled access to the 1967 play...

2,254円 Debate still rages on about who invented baseball. But one thing is certain...it was alive and fractious in southwestern Ontario in the summer of 1949. Charlie Hodge, just finishing his last year of high school, has made the Galt Terriers’ roster and will be riding the bench with a star-studded t...

777円 NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most torturedーand now triumphantーfranchise. Heartbreak and hope. Charm...

661円 "Baseball got in me when I was little.  It runs in my family, and it rubbed off on me.  It's a disease." ーDennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Red Sox pitcher (1982-1989) Baseball is woven into the fabric of American life. For every New Englander, the Boston Red Sox are an institution: kids grow up...

3,310円 Baseball Beyond Our Borders celebrates the globalization of the game while highlighting the different histories and cultures of the nations in which the sport is played. This collection of essays tells the story of America’s national pastime as it has spread across the world and undergone instruc...

300円 A lifelong baseball enthusiast and student examines each of the current Hall of Famers according to a ranking system he created and discusses how to fix the Hall of Fame.

2,024円 Culled from 50 years' worth of columns from one of the country's most popular sportswriters, It Happens Every Spring stands as a remarkable and evocative anthology that is guaranteed to delight baseball fans of all ages. Former New York Times columnist Ira Berkow captures the spirit of America's ...

1,989円 This will be the first Latin American and Caribbean anthology about baseball in English. Translates from the Spanish, the volume includes the best short stories written about baseball and its important to the popular cultures of the Caribbean and Central and South America. The editor/translator, ...

2,248円 Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failureーa very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attemptsーMark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becom...

447円 Um 1900 waren die beiden Sportarten Baseball und Cricket in den USA sehr populär und fanden ungefähr gleich viele Anhänger. Doch dann erlebte plötzlich nur Baseball einen starken Boom und Cricket wurde als Freizeit-Aktivität für empfindsame Schöngeister in eine Nische abgedrängt, während Baseball...