Early Baseball

Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s.

Baseball's Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there. Selected from the original tapes on which Lawrence S. Ritter based his classic book of baseball history, The Glory of Their Times is a collection of wonderful tales that paint a vivid and evocative picture of a lively young America and the giants who starred on her ballfields, legends like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and many others.

This baseball rhyming book is great for any toddler learning their abc's and they will get to learn about baseball as well. The book is a rhyming book with 26 beautifully illustrated pictures by Michael Golez. The author Antoine Cameron also has close ties to the game of baseball since he played pro for the Chicago Cubs. You child will enjoy learning his or her abc's as well as the beautiful pictures.

This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror. Baseball in the Garden of Eden draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game.

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...

It's time to throw your way into Softball Strikeout! For Olivia, a new town, school, and softball team were possibly the last things on her mind, but after being told they’d be moving, it was now becoming a reality. Not only would she need to make new friends, but she’d also have to prove herself on her new softball team all over again. Olivia lived and breathed softball. Growing up, the only sport she’d ever been interested in was softball, and with her dad teaching her, she’d become a pretty good pitcher. However, finding herself now living in Greenville meant that she’d have to...

From the star of Bravo’s hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the “Stud of the Sea’s” first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas, where he has spent more than twenty-five years as a superyacht captain. The cast...

Olivia had been scared starting over in a new town, with new friends and a new softball team, but her worst fears hadn’t materialized, and, in the end, she was settling in as the Blue Jay’s lead pitcher and had quickly formed a small group of core friends she was growing to love. With the first softball game of the season done and dusted, the Blue Jays were off to a great start, but could they carry their winning momentum into their upcoming games? Only time will tell. The girls were working hard on and off the field, with a new business venture quickly taking shape and their friendship...

An authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s game—by award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall...

For Olivia, life in Greenville is finally starting to feel like home. She's made amazing friends, become one of the Blue Jays' star pitchers, and helped build a thriving dog-walking business. But balancing softball, school, friendships, and responsibility is becoming harder than she ever imagined, and every choice feels like it matters more. When problems at school threaten Olivia's confidence and a dog-walking mishap puts the girls' business at risk, she'll need to lean on her teammates more than ever. With intense softball games, growing friendships, and new challenges on and off the ...

Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s. It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace...

This book takes us back to the Early Years from 1878 throughout the 1800’s with some special insights, and into the 20th century. It takes us to the first Black professional baseball game, first Black All Star game, and first Black World Series. Gives a history of the various Black Leagues, and the Black Players, and the Latin Connection. A look back into the early history of Black Afro American baseball in the Negro Leagues. The precious memories of the early years from about the 1880’s to integration, to today. Hundreds of Black baseball teams were formed during and after the ...

The Chronicles of Ed Evaldi Jr. – Volume 1: The Early Years (1940’s & 1950’s) From the Podcast of The Me and Pop Show By Joseph Evaldi and Ed Evaldi Jr. Step back into the streets, neighborhoods, and living rooms of America in the 1940’s and 1950’s through the memories of Ed Evaldi Jr. In this heartfelt first volume, stories from The Me and Pop Show are brought to life, capturing a generation shaped by war, family, faith, hard work, and simpler times. From gathering around the radio to listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous Fireside Chats, to the fear and confusion ...

Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have combed New York and Pennsylvania for the gravesites and biographies of some of our most interesting and accomplished sports figures. Included in this volume are: Alan Ameche “The Horse” William “Willie” Law Anderson “Golf’s Forgotten Legend” Paul Arizin “Pitchin’ Paul” Don Richard “Ritchie” Ashburn “His Whiteness” De Bonneville “Bert” Bell “Modern Football’s Founding Father” Billy Conn “The Pittsburgh Kid” James “Jim” Crowley and Harry Stuhldreher “Half the Horsemen” Joe William Frazier “...

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the twenty-first century.

Platinum Anniversary Edition of New York Times bestselling and RITA Award-winning author Rachel Gibson’s Simply Irresistible! Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can’t marry a man old enough...

In 1963, volunteer Jack Harjo sits in the jungles of Costa Rica pondering three questions: Is there a greater good; does it apply here; and can you really trademark Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, and Maui Wowie? A story of sex, drugs, revolution, and the dawn of the Peace Corps....

Jackie Robinson became the first black Major League baseball player of the modern era when he stepped onto the field as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947. In simple, engaging language, this audiobook follows Jackie from childhood through his career as an MVP-award winning baseball player and a hero of...