Product Description: It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak; Ted Williams batted .406; the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World Series; and America went to war.Baseball in 41makes us all remember why the game is still the purest representation of the American Dream...read more

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] ''I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.''-- Babe Ruth He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life...read more

The home run in baseball is exhaustively analyzed through words, images, stats, and much more, in a fascinating visual tour of some of the great players and moments from the history of baseball, with contributions from Ray Robinson, Robert Creamer, Donald Honig, Lee Schreiber, and other notable authors. (view table of contents)

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Tells the stories of players who did their best despite personal adversity, including Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Roger Maris, Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, and Jimmy Piersall (view table of contents)

Recreates the glory and atmosphere of the great baseball season of 1941, when DiMaggio had his record fifty-six game hitting streak, Williams batted .406, and America went to war

Product Description: The ultimate umpire relives the good old days on the diamond. Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he became an umpire. Thus began a career lasting more than a quarter century, most of it with the National League...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ''I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.''-- Babe Ruth He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life...read more

One of the most endearing of American heroes, Casey Stengel guided the New York Yankees to ten pennants in twelve seasons. Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked—the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey's playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished—until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey's managing successes and failures—dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation's consciousness. "I'm a man that's been up and down," Casey said in a serious moment. Certainly his knack for bouncing back made him a legend in our national pastime. Here are the stories and gags, the Stengelian style, the full dimensions of the man. (view table of contents)

A tribute to the late baseball hero reprints articles from 'Sports Illustrated' that trace the highlights of his career and sum up his final battles against alcoholism and cancer

A celebration the best baseball seasons in history discusses DiMaggio's fifty-six-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, the Yankees classic World Series, and such baseball personalities as Lefty Grove, Bobby Feller, and Hank Greenberg. Reprint. NYT.

Former Yankee manager Ralph Houk recounts the historic 1961 season, when sluggers Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle pursued Babe Ruth's home run record, and the team, considered by many to be the greatest ever, battled its way to the championship

Former Yankee manager Ralph Houk recounts the historic 1961 season, when sluggers Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle pursued Babe Ruth's home run record, and the team, considered by many to be the greatest ever, battled its way to the championship