The National Pastime, 2019, Paperback - Society for American Baseball Research (

DescriptionFrom Albert Spalding, who settled in San Diego in the latter part of his life, to late Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn, San D...

The National Pastime is the annual review of baseball historical research and regional topics published by the Society for American Baseball Resear...

Reducere. Since its inception, The National Pastime has featured excellent research and essays about baseball history. This year, though, we asked our contri...

Reducere. Babe Ruth continues to interest and fascinate us over 100 years after his fateful trade from Boston to New York. As Michael Haupert writes in "The ...

Reducere. Harvey's Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers commemorates a team that captured the hearts and imagination of baseball fans not just in Wisconsi...

Baseball in Puerto Rico has a long history, dating back to the nineteenth century and now extending into the twenty-first. As of the end of 2016, t...

Reducere. In 1975, the Boston Red Sox played in what was the most-watched World Series in history, an epic seven-game battle with Cincinnati's Big Red Machin...

Reducere. Everything About Everybody on the Go-Go SoxThe 1959 Chicago White Sox broke a 40-year pennant drought on the city's South Side, begun after the 191...

Reducere. From Rube to Robinson brings together the best Negro League baseball scholarship that the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) has ever pro...

Reducere. DescriptionA SABR BioProject BookThe 1984 Detroit tigers roared out of the gate, winning their first nine games of the season and compiling an eye-...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1972 Texas Rangers were a culmination of decades of trying to get a major-league team in Dallas-Fort Worth. The area has a long hist...

Reducere. Catcher Gus Triandos dubbed the Philadelphia Phillies' 1964 season"the year of the blue snow"a rare thing that happens once in a greatwhile.The Phi...

Reducere. "You talk about destiny, well, you can't rule that out. We were hard-nosed and that showed up in 1957." -- Braves catcher Del Crandall to editor Gr...

Reducere. The Kansas City Monarchs are arguably the best-known of all Negro League teams, thanks in part to the inimitable Satchel Paige's association with t...

A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years, star...

Reducere. The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case.When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eigh...

Reducere. Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracl...

DescriptionOne of two companion volumes of biographies of the players, coaches, announcers, and others involved with the 1986 World Series, one on ...

Reducere. This volume celebrates the 1965 Minnesota Twins, who captured the American League pennant in just their fifth season in the Twin Cities. Led by an ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory H. WolfEditor: Gregory H. WolfEditor: James ForrThe intersection of Grand Avenue and Dodier Street on the north sid...

Reducere. The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies--the "Whiz Kids"--threatened to run away with the pennant, but slumped badly in late summer before finally beating t...

Reducere. This book was inspired by the last Negro League World Series ever played and presents biographies of the players on the two contending teams in 194...

Reducere. In modern baseball history, only one team not named the New York Yankees has ever won three consecutive World Series. That team was the Oakland Ath...

Reducere. This volume by members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) presents the 50 greatest games in Montreal Expos history. The games des...

Reducere. This book rekindles memories of Milwaukee's County Stadium through detailed summaries of 72 games played there, and insightful feature essays about...

Reducere. Baseball Photography Classics"It's a great addition to your coffee table, or as a gift to the baseball fan in your life." ―baseballmusings.com #1 N...

Reducere. A comprehensive tome of baseball facts, figures, and did-you-knows--​newly updated For fans of baseball trivia, this updated version of The New Bas...

Reducere. In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as w...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Will CarrollNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 230 x 19Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. DescriptionOne Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmark...

A graphic novel-style history of baseball, providing an illustrated look at the major games, players, and rule changes that shaped the sport. This ...

Reducere. Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a "southpaw?" Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was...

Reducere. The original Thank God for Football! was published to great acclaim in 2006. This new edition, with abbreviated text, contains almost 120 illustrat...