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Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the present - including Cotton Mather, John Wesley Powell...

It's often said that catcher is the most important, most demanding defensive position in baseball. This view explains why so many light-hitting ...

After Babe Ruth erased Buck Freeman's record in 1919, the new mark stood for 34 years before Maris bettered it, defying as he did an incredulous...

The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro League teams and white professional teams in one league. It operated from Oct...

This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, according to their offensive and defensive ...

Baseball is played in all corners of the world, so it is no surprise to learn that some of the greatest hardballers of all time never played on ...

After winning the 1981 World Series and raising the expectations of management and fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers followed up with six years of d...

Are today's major league baseball pitchers better than ever? Or do they pale in comparison to the great hurlers of 20, 30 or 40 years ago? This boo...

Many of the great ballplayers of the Negro League have been forgotten simply because baseball's Hall of Fame would not recognize black players u...

Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a yo...

Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet....

Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball diamond have filled its rosters....