Product Description: Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

Rates major league players at each position, including starting and relief pitchers, and managers, and discusses each player's hitting tendencies, fielding, and baserunning

Product Description: The first guide to help you get to the next level of baseball play To continue advancing up the ladder of competition, you need to master the game's advanced skills and techniques, those exciting plays that surface at crucial moments in competition and bring victory--the game-breaker plays and skills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Detroit Tigers 101 is required reading for every Tigers fan! From the legendary Ty Cobb to cheering on the team with Paws in Comerica Park, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing baseball and share your passion for America's pastime...read more

Product Description: Minnesota Twins 101 is required reading for every Twins fan! From the legendary Rod Carew and Harmon Killebrew to eating waving a Homer Hanky and cheering with TC, you'll share all the memories with the next generation. Enjoy all the traditions of your favorite team, learn the basics about playing baseball and share your passion for America's pastime...read more

With rollicking stories from the past and new perspectives on baseball's informal rulebook,The Baseball Codes is a must for every fan. Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules, some of which are openly discussed (don't steal a base with a big lead late in the game), and some of which only a minority of players are even aware of (don't cross between the catcher and the pitcher on the way to the batter's box). InThe Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share their insights into the game s most hallowed, and least known, traditions. For the learned and the casual baseball fan alike, the result is illuminating and thoroughly entertaining. At the heart of this book are incredible and often hilarious stories involving national heroes, like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, and notorious headhunters, like Bob Gibson and Don Drysdale, in a century-long series of confrontations over respect, honor, and the soul of the game. WithThe Baseball Codes, we see for the first time the game as it's actually played, through the eyes of the players on the field.

Product Description: During the biggest game of her life . . . a girl pitches to the world's best slugger. Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1931. Jackie Mitchell is a girl pitcher on a minor-league baseball team, the Chattanooga Lookouts. In her day, few women played sports...read more

Product Description: Baseball stadiums might seem like calm and relaxed places. But come game day, people who work at stadiums are ready to swing into action. Many fans don't get to see what happens as stats are updated, coaches adjust game plans, and production crews entertain the crowd...read more

Product Description: Major League Baseball has compiled the definitive instruction manual on learning to play the game. Fully illustrated with action photos of MLB stars illustrating key points and drills for each defensive position, this book also includes special tips from MLB players on batting, base running, the rules of the game, and coaching...read more

Product Description: Every spring, thousands of ball players across the country step back to the nineteenth century to play vintage base ball using the equipment, uniforms, rules, and customs of the game's early years. A unique combination of athletic contest, living history, and outdoor theatre, vintage base ball transports players and spectators alike to that fascinating and innocent time when athletes gathered on the diamond for recreation, exercise, and pure enjoyment...read more

Product Description: Book by Durrie, Karen

Product Description: Integral to the consciousness of the American people, the sport of baseball has become a steadfast institution in a nation whose identity is constantly evolving. Although the game has undergone its own share of changes since it first took center stage, baseball has maintained an unwavering devotion among fans and players alike...read more

Product Description: Readers learn how scientific principles come into play with sports.

Product Description: New readers can learn all about favorite activities, equipment and rules, and how to enjoy them safely in the real world. From karate and camping to downhill skiing, there's something for every sports lover in this energizing set.

Product Description: As Americas pastime, baseball is played in towns and cities across the United States. It has even spread to countries around the globe. This book is a perfect resource for readers who want to learn to play this exciting game. Those who already play baseball are sure to love it, too...read more