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The team now known as the Boston Red Sox played its first season in 1901. The city of Boston had a well-established National League team, known at the time as…
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Just as 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants pitcher Van Lingle Mungo was surprised that Dave Frishberg wrote a song around his name back in 1969, so…
Biographies of every player on the Oakland Athletics championship teams of 1972 through 1974, plus the owner, coaches, and broadcasters during that historic run.
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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 All-Star cast, from Harmon Killebrew…
Before the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves, there were the Boston Red Stockings. They were Boston’s First Nine and 1871 through 1875, they won four consecutive pennants in…
The story of the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox told through biographies of every player, coach, and broadcaster, analyses of the team, and recaps of the unforgettable playoff games.
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…
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…
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…
After almost 40 years of sub-500 baseball, the Sleeping Giant woke in 1995, the first season in the Indians spent in their new home of Jacob’s Field.
The Indians ruled…
"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…
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…
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…
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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.
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.
The Montreal Expos thrilled fans on both sides of the border. This history of the team focuses on their best moments on the field.
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…
Recaps of the greatest baseball games ever played in the eighth wonder of the world, the Astrodome, along with information about Astros history and the building of the Dome. Some…
The intersection of Grand Avenue and Dodier Street on the north side of St. Louis is one of the fabled locations in baseball history. Amateurs began playing on a sandlot…
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 1979 World Series champion Pirates are one of the most memorable teams in baseball history and helped define an era. One look at their pillbox caps-adorned with stars distributed…
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…
