Baseball

Although he never played a day in the white major leagues, John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. A sho...

This work traces New Mexican baseball from its beginnings in the West of Billy the Kid and Geronimo to today's modern game. Set against the back...

I don't think you could find, in the history of baseball, any other player who suffered as many setbacks as Roy Sievers did, and still prevail to b...

This is a memoir of a diehard - a diehard fan who drove himself and his family half crazy to get to Cubs games that were 700 miles away from their ...

This biography of Edd Roush, Indiana-born deadball batting king, centers on the events of the 1919 Black Sox World series but covers his life in...

Beginning with the premise that there is no other rivalry in team sports like that between the Cubs and the White Sox, this work traces the history...

The typical baseball fan yearns for one of two things: a strike out or a home run. But most of the game takes place in between these electrifying m...

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, Fred Clarke began his career in 1894 with a record day at the plate, going 5 for 5. He would go on to...

Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors a...

After coming close to winning the pennant on more than one occasion during the early 1920s, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally shed the stigma of be...

This is a graphic biography of Fred Hutchinson, one of baseball's most beloved men. Hutch enjoyed a successful big league career, first as an Al...

This work is a biography of Carl Hubbell, a baseball legend who was active in the 1930s for the New York Giants and an eight-time All-Star. Hubb...

This biography of Fred Hutchinson recounts the life of the former manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Facing a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer in Dec...

For the reader interested in learning more about working in sports--or the fan that wants a look at what those inside the radio booth go through...

For 52 years, Boston was a two-team Major League city, home to both the Red Sox and the Braves. This book focuses on the two teams' period of co...

After the old National Association of Professional Ball Players collapsed in 1875, Brooklyn went eight years without a baseball team of its own. T...

Tony Gwynn spent his entire professional baseball career with the San Diego Padres. As a player, he stands second only to Ty Cobb in batting titles...