A Celebration of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
That was when a 22year- old Carlos Beltrán showed up. He spoke little English. He was paralyzingly shy. But the talent was already awe- inspiring. “He can be as good as he wants to be,” then assistant general manager Allard Baird told ...
Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 ...
The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,?
The 100 Greatest Games that Shaped the 19th Century Bill Felber, Mark Fimoff, Len Levin, Peter Mancuso. 4-5; Freyer and Rucker, eds.; Peverelly's National Game, p. 57. 8. “Base Ball—Match of the Niagaras with the Excelsior Club of ...
Yankee Greats features 100 baseball cards of the greatest and most popular Yankees from the celebrated trading-card company Topps.
The only book of its kind to tell the history of baseball, from its inception to the present day, through 100 key objects that represent the major milestones, evolutionary events, and larger-than-life personalities that make up the game A ...
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Bennett Park. Navin Field. Briggs Stadium. Tiger Stadium. And now PAL Field. A few weeks ago, I caught myself telling someone I hadn't given much thought to baseball over the past two or three years. Hearing those words out loud, ...
To diehard baseball fans, the selection of players who will join the ranks of Cooperstown inductees often seems a bit arbitrary. Over the years there have been many outstanding players...
A New York Times Bestseller Through 100 Evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of baseball, America’s past time.