Product Description: Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole...read more

Product Description: Willie Keeler: From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame

Product Description: Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox...read more

A compendium of more than one thousand unique baseball lists and records features such marginalia as lead-off home runs that proved to be the only runs of the game, would-be no-hitters that were broken up in extra innings, and more, in an updated edition that incorporates the 2006 season. Original.

Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees...read more

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