Baseball

This combination reference book and history covers the inroads and achievements made on professional ball fields by Latin American athletes, the...

While scholars disagree on where and when baseball was first played in Mexico, it's clear that the game quickly became popular--and stayed that ...

The 1909 World Series featured Hall of Fame players Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner and was the first championship to extend to Game Seven, the final a...

Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginnings in the late 19th century up to...

Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and their bitter crosstown rivals, the Mi...

In 1886, a semipro team known as the Union Baseball Club was founded in Chicago. Under the leadership of Frank Leland, this team of black player...

In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote to obtain the injunction that ended th...

Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the asterisk next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried ...

The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spent a dozen seasons as a high-profil...

Experience every baseball stadium in the country from the comfort of your favorite easy chair Major League Baseball occupies a special place in the...

Few Major League Baseball teams have a history as glorious and as interesting as the Cincinnati Reds. From the earliest days of baseballs first pro...

This work focuses on the Norfolk team (nicknamed the Mary Janes), which played in the Virginia, Eastern and Atlantic leagues. Much attention is ...

When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans a...

The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team - team being the operative word. There were no superstars - although Roberto Clemente would become ...

It was a novel experiment as baseball's leading men formed the National Association, bringing order to the hodgepodge of professional and amateu...

This comprehensive visitor's guide to the teams of baseball's South Atlantic League lays out the methods needed to plan efficient, cost-effectiv...

At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were co...

From 1900 through the 1940s Latino baseball players suffered discrimination, poor accommodations, low pay and homesickness to play a game they l...

There are many sports-related books about what happens on the playing field, but few are written about the equally interesting stories of what h...

Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defensive replacements, and he didn't lik...

The Cubs were at the end of the best five-season run of any team in history, based regular season wins. The team featured Three Finger Brown, the f...

For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking ...