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Include books by the same authorJoe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
Richard Ben Cramer · 553 pages
"In this biography, Richard Ben Cramer presents a stunning, often shocking portrait of the hero nobody knew. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light along the way not just America's national game, but her movie stars, mobsters, pols, writers...the birth (and the price) of modern national celebrity.". "This is the story Joe DiMaggio never wanted to tell - and nev
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein · 376 pages
"A fascinating account of the mysterious proving ground of America's national pastime, pulling back the veil on the minor leagues of baseball."--
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Eliot Asinof · 302 pages
A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants
Andrew Baggarly
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
Robert W. Creamer · 443 pages
"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, world-famous for his hitting prowess, he transcended the sport to enter the mainstream of American life as an authentic folk hero. In this extraordinary biography, noted sportswriter Robe
Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Leigh Montville · 560 pages
The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream
Jim Collins, James Maddison Collins · 288 pages
56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Kostya Kennedy · 365 pages
Recounts Joe DiMaggio's streak during the summer of 1941 and how it found its way into countless lives.
Summer of '49
David Halberstam · 336 pages
Chronicles the 1949 baseball season, which marked the beginning of the rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.
The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
Tom Verducci · 379 pages
"With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become World Series champions"--
Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers
Mike Shropshire · 250 pages
“Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, ‘If Rich Billings is the starting catcher again, we’re in deep trouble.’ When that evaluation was passed along to Billings, he simply nodded and said, ‘Whitey, obviously, has seen me play.’” In early 1973, gonzo sportswriter Mike Shropshire agreed to cover the Texas Rangers for the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, not realizing that the Rangers
Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball
Tim Kurkjian · 272 pages
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
Ben Bradlee Jr. · 855 pages
Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than five hundred home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in World War II and Korea. He hit ho
Stan Musial: An American Life
George Vecsey · 397 pages
Sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the kind of prestigious biographical treatment previously afforded to his more celebrated contemporaries. More than just a recounting of Musial's life, this is the definitive portrait of one of the game's best-loved but most unappreciated legends, told through the remembrances of those who played b
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
Chris Ballard · 271 pages
viii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm1000L Lexile
Ball Four
Jim Bouton · 472 pages
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And seriou
Fantasyland: True Tales from America's Most Compulsive Fantasy Baseball League
Sam Walker · 361 pages
Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest, most obsessive, and most engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: Rotisserie baseball, a fantasy game where armchair fans match wits by building their own teams. In 2004, Sam Walker, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars, a league reserved
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Dan Barry · 340 pages
From Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history--a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues.
You Gotta Have Wa
Robert Whiting · 339 pages
A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there professionally. In Japan, baseball is a way of life. It is a philosophy. It is besuboru. Its most important element is wa—group harmony—embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down." In this witty and incisive book, Robert Whiting
Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
David Ross · 242 pages
Discusses the author's life and career, including his role as "Grandpa Rossy" on the Chicago Cubs 2016 championship-winning team. In 2016, the Cubs ended a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. One of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season was the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
Joe Posnanski · 276 pages
Documents the author's cross-country travels at the side of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil, a journey during which the pair sought to recapture their love of the game, remembered O'Neil's history-making career, and explored the numerous challenges that the sport has overcome.
The Magical Game: The Spirit and History of Baseball's Superstitions, Rituals, and Curses
Addy Baird · 304 pages