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Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America's national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last 200 years has it become an American institution. Growing from a sport played in open fields and big-city streets, baseball has seen its share of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains.

If you’re the parent of a young pitcher, you already know the fear: One weekend of too many pitches. One coach says, “He’s fine.” One bullpen too soon. One sore elbow that turns into a season-changing problem. Arm Care Mastery was written for parents and coaches who want to build real velocity without gambling with a young arm. In this no-nonsense guide, Walter Beede breaks down exactly how to protect and develop pitchers ages 10–16 in today’s high-pressure baseball world of travel teams, tournaments, showcases, and nonstop throwing. This book shows you how to: prevent overuse ...

Two Harvard undergraduates must decide how to juggle their travails in Cambridge with the increased tensions in Europe. As they endure the horrors of the Western Front, William clings to the hope that he may somehow find answers about his past.

In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports. In addition to the fact that they fielded the first all-minority lineup in major league history, the 1971 Pirates are noteworthy for the team's inspiring individual performances.

Before the floodlights and television deals, before analytics and billion-dollar contracts, baseball was the story of a nation learning who it was. It rose from muddy fields and smoke-filled taverns, from gentlemen’s clubs and back alleys, from dreams stitched into horsehide and hope. It was America in miniature—its courage, its contradictions, its relentless ambition played out between the baselines. In Baseball- The Untold Story of America's Pastime, bestselling author, Tim Cooper, tells the sweeping, cinematic story of baseball’s evolution from a 19th-century curiosity to the ...

*"[An] excellent exercise in narrative nonfiction." --Booklist (starred review) From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player...

Baseball explores the history of organized baseball during the mid-twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded. Gietschier covers a then-burgeoning group of owners, players, and key figures whose stories figure prominently in baseball's past and some of whom are still prominent in its collective consciousness.

Beloved writer Sean Dietrich--also known as Sean of the South--will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her. Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local...

The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part Tenth Inning directed with Lynn Novick. The authors of the acclaimed and bestselling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American...

In this essay originally aired in the 1950s, baseball legend Jackie Robinson reflects on fighting imperfection to create a better world in "Free Minds and Hearts at Work", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans...

Historian John Ferling delves into baseball in the fascinating dozen years following World War II, when baseball ruled as the national pastime, and the names of the game's principal stars were known even by those who weren't fans of the sport. Major league baseball integration in 1947 also...

A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. The book is published by The University of Illinois Press.

The Swingin' Friars are scoring runs. Can this Padres team make a run without four of their star players? We look at the Dodgers and Angels, plus the Phillies, Giants and Nationals. The Clippers and Lakers are hunting for free agents. NFL news including Sunday Ticket, 49ers, Dolphins, Jets, and Raiders. Plus, NHL, WNBA, NCAA, Bo Jackson, drag races, and soccer. Got a question or comment for Hacksaw? Type it in the live chat on Facebook, X or YouTube. Here’s what Lee Hamilton thinks on Monday, July 1, 2024. 1)...PADRES...GREAT SPORTS WEEKEND “SWINGING FRIARS LIVE UP TO NAME" 2)......

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.

“It's easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.” —Floyd Patterson Twenty-two notable writers—including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese—examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so...

Cleveland Indians pitcher Paul Byrd gives an honest account of how he has kept his faith in God despite all the trials and temptions associated with the Major League Baseball lifestyle.

Your Friday podcast source for all things baseball. Listen to FREE BASEBALL each week for informative, analytical and entertaining news and perspectives on our National Pastime past, present and future!

Road Trip Baby! Lee is vacationing in his cottage in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York near the Canadian border. But that can’t stop The Franchise from dropping a new Hacksaw’s Headlines podcast episode. We talk Padres, Dodgers, Angels, NBA, Lakers, Clippers, SDSU, NHL, Kings, Ducks, ESPN, and Tennis. Hacksaw is Bleepin’ Brilliant! Here’s what Lee Hamilton thinks on Thursday, July 6, 2023. These are Hacksaw’s Headlines: 1.. PADRES HEAD TO BREAK...TATIS TO ALL STAR GAME? "TATIS/SNELL ALL STAR SNUB--FANS-PLAYERS" 2.. PADRES LEADERS SOUND OFF "SEIDLER/PRELLER NO ...

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Hacksaw's got the latest updates from Peoria and Camelback Ranch. Padres and Dodgers have pitching news, some good, some bad. Braves Jurickson Profar suspension. World Baseball Classic starts soon. NFL news from Rams, Chiefs, Chargers, Patriots, Cardinals, Dolphins, Cowboys, Raiders. Hacksaw breaks down all the big name, big money NFL Free Agents. We remember greatness in Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz. RIP. Aztecs and UCLA basketball news. NBA gambling plea bargains. NHL Deadline Day. Team USA soccer. Plus, IndyCar, NASCAR and F1. Got a question or comment for Lee? Drop your take in the live...