Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.
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Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball p...
These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. These essayists show how the gradual involvement by various ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing nature of baseball--and of American society as a whole--over the course of the twentieth century. Although the sport could not truly be called representative of America until after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, fascination with the ethnic backgrounds of the players began more than a century ago...
These nine essays selected by Lawrence Baldassaro and Richard A. Johnson present for the first time in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of...
Skillfully edited by John McNally, Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories collects nineteen contemporary baseball short stories from a successful mix of well-established writers, lesser-knowns, and a few up-and-comers. These stories are characterized by the same dramatic elements that draw people to the sport itselfthe mythologizing of players, the obsessions and romance of the game, the bonds between players and fans, parents and children. From a key play, a missed catch, a chance lost, these are tales of characters facing high stakes and calls to action,...
Skillfully edited by John McNally, Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories collects nineteen contemporary baseball short...
"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical value to the rich literary merits of this anthology.
Editor Trey Strecker s collection begins with an informal village match in an excerpt from James Fenimore Cooper s "Home as Found "(1838), published the year prior to Abner Doubleday s alleged invention of the game outside Cooperstown, New York,...
"Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction "collects twenty-two classic stories from baseball s youth, presented in chro...
To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, the closest you can come to perfection. He was the first player to hit fifty home runs and steal twenty bases in a single season. Mays played for the New York Giants (19511957), San Francisco Giants (19581972), and New York Mets (19721973), and in his glory days with the Giants he not only set the major league mark for consecutive seasons by appearing in 150 games or more but by winning...
To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the di...
With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Oriolesoriginally the St. Louis Brownsrank among baseball s most storied teams. One of the fifteen celebrated team histories commissioned by G. P. Putnam s Sons in the 1940s and 1950s, The "Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colorful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis" chronicles the club s early history and is reissued on the fiftieth anniversary of their first season in Baltimore.
Hall of Fame sportswriter Frederick G. Lieb begins with the history of baseball in Baltimore from its pre-Civil War...
With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Oriolesoriginally the St. Louis Brownsrank among base...
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women--more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball's accepted history to at last reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game.
Through provocative interviews and deft research, Jean Hastings Ardell devotes a detailed chapter to each of the seven ways women participate in the game--from the stands as fans, on the field as...
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved amon...
