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He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation.

It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his fifty-six-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World Series, and that America went to war.

Set in the small towns, ball fields, barns, and bedrooms of Alberta, Canada, and populated by some of the quirkiest and rowdiest folks in fiction…

Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball.

As a boy in the 1890s he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with humiliation from the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine...

The Most Gigantic Sporting Swindle in the History of America! This headline proclaiming the...

Honus Wagner was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century.

From May 30, 1982, until 1997, Cal Ripken, Jr., didn’t miss a game. In 1995 he succeeded in toppling baseball’s most unbreakable streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.

Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League.

Alexander’s entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as he chronicles the advent of the first professional leagues, baseball’s surge in the early twentieth century…

Pitching in a Pinch is an insider’s account blending anecdote, biography, instruction, and social history.

Roger Maris, one of baseball’s most misunderstood heroes, still has not received his rightful place in the game’s history…

In the 1920s, Rogers Hornsby was the National League’s foremost star.

Shoeless Joe is the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, though like most such relationships, the book is far better than the screen adaptation.

Reporter A. B. Berkowitz finds herself “alone with a locker room full of naked men” as she tries to write about the game of baseball amidst players who only want to gross her out…

Author Mike Shannon takes you behind the scenes into the ballpark, the clubhouse, and the minor leagues in this memorable collection of anecdotes about America’s pastime from some of the greatest players and storytellers.

This memorable collection of anecdotes about America’s national pastime will take you into the dugout, clubhouse, and press box with some of the game’s greatest players and storytellers.

The Great Chase is an exciting day-by-day report of the miracle run of the 1951 Giants, baseball’s most exciting pennant race, including a fascinating examination of the strategy of the final game.

Gideon Clarke is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league.

In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.

Beginning in 1946, the then eight-year-old author, accompanied by father and grandfather, takes the long train ride out to Fenway Park to find some truth in immortals like Doerr, DiMaggio, York, and Williams.

To many, Walter Johnson is the greatest pitcher of all time. He was a star second to none from the dawn of the game’s modern era through the “Golden Age of Sports” of the Roaring Twenties.

Were the careers of Hank Greenberg and Bill Dickey ended by their service? How would wartime players like Hal Newhouser and Dick Wakefield fare against returning veterans?

Jack Keefe, one of literature’s great characters, is talented, brash, and conceited.

With over two decades of laugh-out-loud anecdotes and controversial opinions, Durwood makes the call on managers, relating his explosive relationships with them and the viciously hilarious barbs they trade.