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My Baseball Journey
A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History
A Baseball Companion
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds
Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
A Life in Baseball
Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers
The 1970 Baltimore Orioles
The Life of Hugh Alexander
Italian Americans in Baseball
Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer
On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
A Search for the Roots of the Game
The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
How Sports Media Grew Up, Sold Out, and Got Personal with Billions of Fans
Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing
A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
The Wizard of College Baseball
How Ron Fraser Elevated Miami and an Entire Sport to National Prominence
The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba
A Novel
Nine Who Did It with Grit and Class
The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
A Personal History
Baseball and the American Military during World War II
The Iconoclastic Showman behind the Chicago Cubs
Reflections from Baseball's Front Office
A Year in the Minor League Life
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
The True Record
The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities
Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope
My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design
His Life and Times
Images of Minor League Baseball
Writers on Baseball
Dreams and Realism on Chicago's South Side
Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game
The Hidden Language of Baseball
How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime
Baseball's Prodigal Son
Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl
How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul
The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball
The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America
Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour
The Integration of the Pacific Coast League
Race and Baseball on the West Coast
Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977–78 Dodgers
The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
The 1920 American League Pennant Race That Rattled and Rebuilt Baseball
The 1969 Chicago Cubs
Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers
The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball
How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties
The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues
Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire
Conversations with Umpires
The Turbulent Midcentury Years
A Memoir
An International Pastime
The International Pastime
The Working Lives of Baseball People
Life in Professional Baseball
A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties
The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize
The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72
Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nine Most Popular Myths
Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968
The Twins in the Turbulent 1960s
The Summer of '81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You’ve Never Heard Of
The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
An Appreciation of Vin Scully
The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero
Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom
Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier
Johnny Vander Meer's Historic Night under the Lights
When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World
When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game
The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line
How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball’s Best Battery
The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code
Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators
The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop
African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson
The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton
Baseball and America in the Time of JFK
A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
How We Loved and Played the Game
A Minor League Baseball Memoir
A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season
The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War
From the Dugouts to the Trenches
Baseball during the Great War
Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I
The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
How the Cleveland Indians became the Kings of Baseball, 1916-1920
Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
A History of Baseball's Labor Wars
The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956
Memories from 47 Major Leaguers
Heroes in and out of Baseball
or Baseball from the Inside
Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion
The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras
The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song
Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig
Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959
How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball
The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
The Life of a Baseball Original
Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy
The Story of California Baseball
The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising
Drama and Pride in the Gateway City
The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals
The Society for American Baseball Research's Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game
Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox
The Life behind the Baseball Legend
A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood
A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
The Story of the Seattle Rainiers
A History of Baseball in Asia
My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues
Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball
Reflections on a Life in Baseball
My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball
On a Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place
Baseball's Worst Teams
Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues
The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
Baseball in the Dominican Republic
American Jews and America's Game
Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball
Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball
Calling the Game and Living My True Self
Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words
With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers
Ace of the Greatest Generation
Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
The Presidents and the Pastime
The History of Baseball and the White House
Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York
The 1947 New York Yankees
The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn
The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America
The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees
A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen
Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908
A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972-2008
A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972
A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900-1948
The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties
Baseball's Golden Age Revisited
How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama
The Story of Eddie Waitkus
Baseball's Big Train
The Mordecai Brown Story
The Life of Horace Stoneham
The Eighth Wonder of the World
The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome
How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game
A History of Baseball on Television
A History of Baseball on the Radio
The 1954 Cleveland Indians
The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team
A Novel
The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star
Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932
The Biography of a Baseball Legend
A History of Baseball in Taiwan
A Hall of Fame Life
In the Best Interests of Baseball?
Governing the National Pastime
A History of Expansion, 1961-1998
The Untold History of Baseball