Warren N. Wilbert's history of the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants begins in 1876, when the Cubs won the first NL championship. The story ends in 1932 when John McGraw stepped down as manager of the Giants.

Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no one can lay a bat to; cool heads and confidence in their stuff when they get in a jam; and the kind of dexterity that makes difficult plays seem easy. Is elite status revealed through statistics? Though the author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, he argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another. In a thoughtful discussion of the evidence of head-to-head...

Chronicling the 1917 Chicago White Sox, this work looks at the team that took Charles Comiskey - one of the founding fathers of the American league - back to the World Series and restored the White Sox to the status of one of the game's elite.

In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy. This book covers the American League's origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.

In Major League Baseball, the shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games that have been played since the origins of the major leagues, only approximately 10 percent have been shutouts. Clean fielding, incredible pitching, and the combined efforts of a team that turns its talent into a work of baseball artistry must all come together to make a shutout possible. This work covers every shutout from the beginning of professional baseball through the 2010 World Series, including no-hitters and perfect...