Product Description: The scholar-editors and eight accomplished colleagues together offer views of phonological research on American Spanish.

Product Description: Incisive essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Mark Harris, John Bowman, John Hildebidle, Thomas Altherr, John Holway and others on the game's social value, intellectual roots, mythic underpinnings, rites of manhood, baseball astrology, and more. Extensive baseball bibliogaphy.

15 fine stories by WP Kinsella, Robert Coover, Jay Neugeboren, William Stafford, Henry Roth, David Nemec and others on the human condition near the baseball diamond. Printed letterpress in sepia ink on 80 lb. Mohawk Vellum. First rate baseball literature bibliography.

Product Description: The Baseball Scrapbook is divided into four sections: The Magic of Baseball The Art of Baseball The Baseball Family Take Me Out to the Ball Game It is a celebration of the powerful grip that America's game has on its millions of fans, and an attempt to recreate baseball history as it lives in our memory and imagination...read more

Chronicles the complete history of the team, highlighting important milestones, legendary players, and great triumphs, including team lore, anecdotes, and statistics

Chronicles the complete history of the team, highlighting important milestones, legendary players, and great triumphs, including team lore, anecdotes, and statistics

Product Description: Book by Bjarkman, Peter C.

An experienced expert on basketball history presents a thorough survey of the 100-year saga of the sport, offering descriptions of the game's players, both great and forgotten, gathering out-of-the-way facts that fascinate and inform, and tracing the game's steady evolution. Original. IP.

The most comprehensive book ever written on the history of the NBA's most storied franchise, The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia will surely be included in every sports fan's library. Written in a unique, easy-to-read style, the Celtics Encyclopedia brings to life the exploits of such Celtic legends as Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Red Auerbach, Kevin McHale, John Havlicek, Bob Cousy and more.

Three hundred vintage photographs provide a chronicle of the notorious Brooklyn Dodgers from 1884 to 1957 as well as a look at owners, managers, and players from Charles Ebbets and Wee Willie Keeler to Don Drysdale and Walter O'Malley

Product Description: The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home run derby champion Yoenis Céspedes, radar-gun busting Cincinnati fast-baller Aroldis Chapman, and a handful of others have been further enhanced by feel-good tales of desperate Cuban superstars risking their lives to escape Fidel Castro’s communist realm and chase a celebrated American Dream of financial and athletic success...read more

Looks at the history of baseball in a variety of countries, including Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, and includes profiles of each country's teams and top players.

A complete history of the American League features narrative histories of all fourteen teams, highlights of every playing season since 1901, pennant and World Series losses and wins, extraordinary games, and star players. Original.

A narrative history of major league baseball features extensive, up-to-date team histories of all fourteen National League teams, on-field playing achievements, front office deeds and misdeeds, and more. Original.

A collection of essays relates the histories of each American League club, portrays outstanding personalities, and includes season records for each team

Traces the develoment of all twelve National League teams, and looks at the players, owners, and managers that have shaped each franchise

Providing a comprehensive history of all past and present NBA teams, a leading basketball historian focuses on franchise histories, brings hometown teams to life, and includes a survey of the careers of the twelve greatest players in NBA history.

A biography of the baseball player who hit over 500 homeruns in his nineteen seasons with the Chicago Cubs

'In this book, Peter Bjarkman follows the full arc of Cuban baseball history, including coverage of the nearly five decades since the Sugar Kings' ejection from the International League. Dispelling the mystery and disinformation that surround Cuba, its leader, and its teams, early and late, Bjarkman gives us the first balanced history of baseball on the Caribbean island'--Provided by publisher.

Forty years of basketball history on and off the court traces the careers of such early greats as Bill Russell and Bob Cousy and such contemporary favorites as Magic Johnson, Alcindor, Frazier, Abdul-Jabar, Bird, and others.

Presents a history of the popular college sport, highlighting important players, coaches, teams, and moments