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My Baseball Journey

More than Merkle

A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History

A Baseball Companion

The Summer Game

The Great Eight

The 1975 Cincinnati Reds

In Pursuit of Pennants

Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

A Life in Baseball

Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers

The 1970 Baltimore Orioles

Baseball's Last Great Scout

The Life of Hugh Alexander

Beyond DiMaggio

Italian Americans in Baseball

Yankees Legend and Baseball Pioneer

On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat

Oscar Charleston

The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

Baseball before We Knew It

A Search for the Roots of the Game

The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball

No Place I Would Rather Be

Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing

Making My Pitch

A Woman's Baseball Odyssey

Greatness in the Shadows

Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League

Last Seasons in Havana

The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba

A Novel

Swinging for the Fences

Nine Who Did It with Grit and Class

Native American Son

The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe

The Continental League

A Personal History

Playing for Their Nation

Baseball and the American Military during World War II

It's Good to Be Alive

The Iconoclastic Showman behind the Chicago Cubs

Winning in Both Leagues

Reflections from Baseball's Front Office

Bluegrass Baseball

A Year in the Minor League Life

Called Out but Safe

A Baseball Umpire's Journey

My Life in Baseball

The True Record

Baseball's Most Wanted

The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities

Electric October

Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever

When the Crowd Didn't Roar

How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope

When Big Data Was Small

My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design

Baseball and Other Matters in 1941

His Life and Times

Small-Town Heroes

Images of Minor League Baseball

Scoring from Second

Writers on Baseball

James T. Farrell and Baseball

Dreams and Realism on Chicago's South Side

The Black Prince of Baseball

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

Road to Nowhere

The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball

Baseball Rebels

The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

Baseball History from Outside the Lines

A Reader

Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club

Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age

The Tour to End All Tours

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

A Game of Brawl

The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant

Under Pallor, Under Shadow

The 1920 American League Pennant Race That Rattled and Rebuilt Baseball

Miracle Collapse

The 1969 Chicago Cubs

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

The Unforgettable Season

One Nation Under 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

Summer Baseball Nation

Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues

The Men in Blue

Conversations with Umpires

The Turbulent Midcentury Years

The Warsaw Sparks

A Memoir

Baseball Beyond Our Borders

An International Pastime

Baseball without Borders

The International Pastime

In the Ballpark

The Working Lives of Baseball People

Life in Professional Baseball

Playing with Tigers

A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties

Hairs vs. Squares

The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72

Tales from the Deadball Era

Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History

Errors and Fouls

Inside Baseball's Ninety-Nine Most Popular Myths

Empire of Infields

Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968

Bang the Drum Slowly

It Looked Like For Ever

A Ticket for a Seamstitch

The Pride of Minnesota

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

The Chalmers Race

Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession

Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom

Andrés Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier

Johnny Vander Meer's Historic Night under the Lights

The Era, 1947-1957

When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World

Good Enough to Dream

Memories of Summer

When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game

A Season in the Sun

501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die

Jackie and Campy

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

Native Athletes in Sport and Society

A Reader

Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators

The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop

Out of the Shadows

African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson

The Worst Team Money Could Buy

Baseball and America in the Time of JFK

The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training

Conspiracy of Silence

Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball

The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War

Growing Up with Baseball

How We Loved and Played the Game

A Minor League Baseball Memoir

Buzzie and the Bull

A GM, a Clubhouse Favorite, and the Dodgers' 1965 Championship Season

The Best Team Over There

The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War

From the Dugouts to the Trenches

Baseball during the Great War

The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

The Best They Could Be

How the Cleveland Indians became the Kings of Baseball, 1916-1920

Baseball's Endangered Species

Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It

Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman

The Imperfect Diamond

A History of Baseball's Labor Wars

The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931

Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

The Grand Old Man of Baseball

Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956

They Played the Game

Memories from 47 Major Leaguers

Minor Players, Major Dreams

The Quality of Courage

Heroes in and out of Baseball

Pitching in a Pinch

or Baseball from the Inside

Mover and Shaker

Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion

Stumbling around the Bases

The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song

The Conscience of the Game

Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig

Crossing the Line

Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959

Level Playing Fields

How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball

After Many a Summer

The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball

The Life of a Baseball Original

Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson's Radical Legacy

The Golden Game

The Story of California Baseball

Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, 2-volume set

Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 1

The Ballplayers Who Built the Game

Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, Volume 2

The Hall of Famers and Memorable Personalities Who Shaped the Game

Here's the Pitch

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

Alexander Cartwright

The Life behind the Baseball Legend

Maybe I'll Pitch Forever

A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood

The American Indian Integration of Baseball

Pitching in the Promised Land

A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League

Pitchers of Beer

The Story of the Seattle Rainiers

Taking in a Game

A History of Baseball in Asia

Bring In the Right-Hander!

My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues

A Game of Their Own

Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball

Throwing Hard Easy

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 Great Baseball Revolt

The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

The Tropic of Baseball

Baseball in the Dominican Republic

Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

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

The Umpire Is Out

Calling the Game and Living My True Self

Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Two Sides of Glory

The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words

Seasons in Hell

With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History"—The 1973–1975 Texas Rangers

Ace of the Greatest Generation

The Pitcher and the Dictator

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

Bridging Two Dynasties

The 1947 New York Yankees

Comeback Pitchers

The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn

The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America

The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers

The Colonel and Hug

The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees

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 Age of Ruth and Landis

The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties

The Postwar Yankees

Baseball's Golden Age Revisited

Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats

How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression

Baseball's Power Shift

How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture

When Baseball Went White

Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime

Chief Bender's Burden

The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star

One Season in Rocket City

How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama

Baseball's Natural

The Story of Eddie Waitkus

Baseball's Big Train

The Mordecai Brown Story

Forty Years a Giant

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 Midsummer Classic

The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game

Center Field Shot

A History of Baseball on Television

Crack of the Bat

A History of Baseball on the Radio

Pitching to the Pennant

The 1954 Cleveland Indians

Weaver on Strategy

The Classic Work on the Art of Managing a Baseball Team

Castro's Curveball

Escape from Castro's Cuba

A Novel

Philadelphia's Top Fifty Baseball Players

Sol White's History of Colored Baseball with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886–1936

Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez

The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star

The Called Shot

Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932

The Biography of a Baseball Legend

Playing in Isolation

A History of Baseball in Taiwan

A Hall of Fame Life

In the Best Interests of Baseball?

Governing the National Pastime

Baseball's New Frontier

A History of Expansion, 1961-1998

Diamonds in the Rough

The Untold History of Baseball