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Pitching a no-hitter is a dream for every major-league pitcher. Fewer than half the pitchers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame have thrown a no-hitter. Many of the biggest…
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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, there have been 323…
This book is about the last Negro League World Series ever played (1948) and presents biographies of the players both teams (the Birmingham Black Barons and the Homestead Grays), the…
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This is SABR's second volume on baseball's winter meetings, covering 1958 - 2016, plus a special section on the Negro Leagues winter meetings.
The Mets are a team known for warming hearts one day and breaking them the next. Nothing has ever come easy for the National League’s third franchise in New York…
The 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 history with baseball, going back to…
"The only one I ever saw come close to [Frank Robinson], was this kid Bagwell. Boy, is he aggressive... boy can he swing that bat....I want to meet him someday…
Jim Prime,Bill Nowlin
The Red Sox are World Champions again. Their outfield of Andrew Benintendi, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Mookie Betts, was one of the most productive in baseball history. Celebrate the superb…
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Comiskey Park, affectionately known as the Base Ball Palace of the World, was the home of the Chicago White Sox for parts of nine decades, from 1910 to 1990. Despite…
Babe Ruth thrilled baseball fans with his tremendous home-run swing. He made friends-and some enemies-with his loud, larger-than-life personality. The list of books about Ruth could fill a few bookshelves…
More than a century has passed since the glorious Beaneaters era of Boston’s baseball history in the 1890s. While Boston would soon have a second baseball club that would capture…
Len Levin
Featuring an introduction by John Schuerholz, bios of all 40 players, and writeups of 10 key games from 1995.It has been 25 years since that magical night in Atlanta, October…
Harvey’s Wallbangers: The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers commemorates a team that captured the hearts and imagination of baseball fans not just in Wisconsin, but around the country. Named for skipper Harvey…
Biographies of 70 major league players that share one crucial similarity: they got only one hit in their career.
The greatest baseball games played at Minnesota’s Metropolitan Stadium.
Biographies of the ballplayers of the 1883 Philadelphia Athletics, champions of baseball’s American Association, a 19th century major league, plus a history of the ballpark, the Jefferson Street Grounds.
An encyclopedic compendium of the most significant figures, places, and events in Canadian baseball history.
Biographies of every player, broadcaster and coach, as well as selected game recaps of, the 1992 Toronto Blue Jays world championship baseball team.
Jackie Robinson’s presence can be seen in hundreds of examples of cinema, plays, TV shows, musicals, and novels, approaching the level of mythic folk hero. By using Robinson as a…
Allan Wood,Bill Nowlin
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Boston Red Sox’ unprecedented championship run in the fall of 2004, this guide takes fans behind the scenes and inside the dugout, bullpen, and…
Bill Nowlin,Jim Prime
From the Green Monster to Pesky’s Pole, The Triangle to the lone red seat marking the longest home run ever hit in the stadium (a 502-foot blast off the bat…
Bill Nowlin
Nowlin portrays the life of Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams before he made it to the majors. The book digs into Ted’s high school baseball and the semi-professional…
Curt Smith
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This book rekindles memories of Milwaukee’s County Stadium through detailed summaries of 72 games played there, and insightful feature essays about the history of the ballpark. The process to select…
Biographies of every umpire in the Baseball Hall of Fame, other notable arbiters, and essays about women umpires, umpire equipment, and much more.
Wrigley Field evokes a feeling of perpetual summer, youth, and dreams. Any mention of the ballpark at the intersection of Clark and Addison in Chicago conjures up images of the…
The Newark Eagles won only one Negro National League pennant during the franchise’s 15-year tenure in the Garden State, but the 1946 squad that ran away with the NNL and…
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 1919 Black Sox scandal. The scrappy…
The First Negro League Champion: The 1920 Chicago American Giants chronicles the team which won the title of champion in the Negro National League’s inaugural season.
Robert K Fitts
Over 100 baseball teams from the United States and Hawaii have crossed the Pacific to play baseball in Japan. Nichibei Yakyu: US Tours of Japan is the first book written…
Foreword by Monte Irvin
Because of Bobby Thomson’s dramatic Shot Heard ‘Round the World in the bottom of the ninth of the decisive playoff game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, the…
The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies–the Whiz Kids –threatened to run away with the pennant, but slumped badly in late summer before finally beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in a thrilling 10 inning…
"The Stars Shone on Philadelphia provides an overview of the Stars franchise history and a detailed account of the 1934 championship team. Included are as many of the team's players…
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine…
The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. This book features the writing and research of members of the Society for American Baseball…
SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research’s wide-ranging contributions to the game of baseball.
