The ESPN sports commentator describes his twenty-five-year career covering professional baseball, drawing on candid interviews with notable players, coaches, managers, and executives to furnish revealing insights into the game, the bizarre rituals and superstitions of some of the game's great players, what transpires in the clubhouse, and much more. 100,000 first printing.

Provides brief profiles of 150 baseball players nominated as Hometown Heroes by the fans, organized by team and including Mike Schmidt, Hank Aaron, Jamie Moyer, Honus Wagner, Roger Clemens, Minnie Minoso, and Babe Ruth.

An illustrated tour of the history of baseball tells the story of baseball in a series of doublepage photo spreads and features such important images as the handwritten lyrics of 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and the contract transferring Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees. 50,000 first printing.