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The First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903
Roger I. Abrams
Paperback - $20.90
Recapturing the drama and color of this historic sporting event, Roger I. Abrams shows how the first world series (Boston Americans vs. Pittsburgh Pirates) provided a unique lens to view American life and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century....
Black and Blue : Sandy Koufax, the Robinson Boys, and the World Series That Stunned America
Tom Adelman
Paperback - $17.20
"Richly layered....An entertaining and informative portrait of two underappreciated teams in an unforgettable time."--Boston Sunday Globe The most surprising World Series ever? Many baseball fans would agree that it was the epic 1966 clash between...
Chicago Cubs : Tinker to Evers to Chance
Art Ahrens
Paperback - $24.60
It has been a long time. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chancethat trio of bear cubs immortalized in poem and enshrined as a unit in Cooperstownformed the core of a ball club that brought Chicago baseball fans backtoback World Series championships...
West Virginia Baseball : A History, 1865-2000
William E. Akin
Paperback - $41.70
A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling is considered the first ?match game of Base Ball.? Here, the author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor leagues...
Breaking the Slump : Baseball in the Depression Era
Charles C. Alexander
Hardcover - $88.40
Alexander, "the preeminent baseball historian of this generation" (TV producer Ken Burns), takes readers back in time to understand why baseball was so successful during America's hardest times. 15 photos.
Breaking the Slump : Baseball in the Depression Era
Charles C. Alexander
Paperback - $35.60
"Breaking the Slump" is the engrossing story of baseball during the 1930s, when the National Pastime came of age as a business, an entertainment, and a passion, and when the teams of the American and National Leagues fielded perhaps the greatest...
Schoolboy : Jim Tugerson
R. S. Allen
Paperback - $14.70
Jim Tugerson, optioned to the Knoxville Smokies by Hot Springs because he was black, sued the league and then won 33 games at Knoxville - the most in organized baseball in 1953.
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
Thomas L. Altherr
Paperback - $63.80
This is an anthology of papers that were presented at the Tenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 1998, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame These essays,...
More Than Merkle : A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History
David W. Anderson
Paperback - $20.90
"I have done a report of some kind on the Fred Merkle story, whether in print, on radio, or on TV, on or about its anniversary, September 23, virtually every year since I was in college. The saga has always seemed to me to be a microcosm not just of...