Experience a unique fan's-eye view of a night that many have called the most exciting night in the history of Major League Baseball. Going beyond a standard retelling of the balls and strikes and homers and webgems, the book hears from 20 fans in their own words. Loyal fans of the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays provide exciting and deeply personal eyewitness accounts -- either from the stadiums or their living rooms. This critically acclaimed book is for casual and serious fans alike. "This is a magical book about a magical night. This beautifully told...

Baseball. Zen. Poetry. Put them all together, and you have word sketches of baseball icons: Mays, Musial, Maris, Mantle, Williams, Aaron, Ruth. A salute to the 2012 San Francisco Giants. And personal reflections of mindful observation. Even if baseball or poetry is not your cup of tea, you are sure to enjoy these portraits and snapshots in words. Celebrate the human spirit on the playing fields of the heart.

This stirring tribute in poetry and prose honors the rich cultural history and heritage of the Tipperary Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. Rather than serving as a recitation of facts and dates, "Tipp Hill Litanies" is a personal meditation on memory, identity, character, and place.

Part memoir, part history, and part travelogue, World Serious is all love and devotion for the San Francisco Giants and their 2012 World Series championship. Take a journey with Paul Kocak as he goes from Syracuse to San Francisco searching for fan love in all the right places.

I write about what moves me. This is a perfect description of my love for the San Francisco Giants. They have moved me to tears of joy, tears of frustration, tears of sadness. I have kicked walls in the aforementioned frustration and almost worn a groove in my carpet from pacing as Game Seven of the 2014 World Series unfolded its drama, going to the very last out with the game on the line. I have shouted at the radio during Matt Cain's perfect game such useful things as "Stay Calm " in a frenzied, decidedly not calm voice, as if Matt could hear me from my living room. During Tim Lincecum's...