"A wonderfully lyrical tale of the season that put poetry back into baseball...The best book yet by America's finest sportswriter." - Pete Hamill. "Here is what makes Mike Lupica so good - he is a gifted writer with the skills of a first-rate reporter and the honest sentiment of a lifelong fan. Here is what makes this book so good - baseball's summer of '98 provided authentic moments of poetry and passion, the kind of stuff that shines through all the crassness and nonsense, to remind us all why...
With extraordinary photographs and fact-filled essays, "Far From Home" gives the sports fan and the historian alike reason to celebrate the incredible rise of the number of Latino players in American baseball and the courage and conviction they have needed to accomplish this feat. In three compelling essays, Tim Wendel tells the story from the first game in Cuba in 1898 and the subsequent diaspora of baseball in the Caribbean all the way through the decades of player development and up to today...
2017 World Series Champions (American League Lower Seed)
by Triumph Books
Baseball is so Great! 2790 Irresistible Sports Quiz Questions
by Craig Philips
This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central in understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters of this title cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrou...
A False Spring (Fireside sports classic) (Hungry Mind Find)
by Pat Jordan
In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first "bonus babies" for the Milwaukee Braves organization. Jordan's sojourn through the lower levels of minor-league ball takes him through the small towns of America: McCook, Waycross, Davenport, Eau Claire...
For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners, play by play. More than half a century later, he could still be heard, broadcasting over National Public Radio from his retirement home in Tallahassee. Announcing for the Brooklyn Dodgers and later for the New York Yankees, he became a legend long before his death in 1992. Red's story reveals the growth...
Baseball Batter Up, Composition Notebook, College Ruled
by Slo Treasures
