After thirty-three seasons managing in Major League Baseball, Tony La Russa thought he had seen it all, that is, until the 2011 Cardinals. Down ten and a half games with little more than a month to play, the Cardinals had been ruled out as serious postseason contenders. Yet in t…
The legendary baseball manager discusses the St. Louis Cardinals 2011 season, detailing the journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time.
The legendary baseball manager takes readers behind the scenes of the St. Louis Cardinals' 2011 season, detailing a journey that resulted in one of the most dramatic World Series of all time.
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques, and interesting facts of baseball.
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques and interesting facts of baseball.
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques, and interesting facts of baseball.
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques, and interesting facts of baseball.
Text and detailed photographs present the history, techniques, and interesting facts of baseball.
Details the longest game in baseball history, a grueling minor-league matchup between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings that lasted more than eight hours, with the last of the thirty-three innings being postponed until two months later.
Details the longest game in baseball history, a grueling minor-league matchup between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings that lasted more than eight hours, with the last of the thirty-three innings being postponed until two months later.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history--a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the…
"Emphasizes first the accomplishments within the organized black leagues of the 1920s through 1947 (the year Robinson broke the color line); then the Black Barons of subsequent decades, the former Barons invited to Tryout Camps, others who signed with minor league clubs, and the…
"Emphasizes first the accomplishments within the organized black leagues of the 1920s through 1947 (the year Robinson broke the color line); then the Black Barons of subsequent decades, the former Barons invited to Tryout Camps, others who signed with minor league clubs, and the…
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth…
