This book tells the story of professional football in the 1950s and 60s through the words of the players themselves. The chapters are full of anecdotes and reflections on the…

Broad in scope and deep in analysis, this biography of Stan Musial details not only the personality and the accomplishments of the man, but artfully examines his life against the…

A collection of notable major league ballplayers’ favorite baseball-related memories with their fathers and how their relationships with their fathers shaped them as players. It reveals, through its fifteen profiles…

Using a Canadian emigre lens, David Wayne Stewart’s essay collection, True North, Down South, entertains and educates readers about immigrant and national identity, cultural misunderstandings, and belonging in the modern…

Here’s what former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck had to say about baseball: This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness echoes the call of the Navajo sage and the psalmist who invited their hearers to stop–If we keep going this way, we’re going to…