More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus The Baseball Prospectus Steven Goldman ... making the accrual of their season stats less and less an aggregation of 162 batter vs. pitcher matchups, ...
He discusses the influence of Jackie Robinson on the serious baseball novel and the reluctance of baseball fiction to treat race issues realistically.
The writer offers a poetic, profound record of an ordinary, yet active, year in her later life, filled with literary events and travel, the natural beauties of coastal Maine, and the shadow of illness and mortality. Reprint.
Mays out, they go into extra innings. But it was no mystery really. I learned later that Richardson said he first thought the ball was going over his head. But then, in a split second, he read the overspin and knew the ball was going to ...
Time to move on and get the party started again. And I did. Until our paths crossed again, and I remembered what we had. She wasn't getting away a second time because our game just went into Extra Innings.
Focusing on Smith's lifelong love affair with sport of baseball, this volume provides a firsthand account of a season in the Baltimore County, Over-30 league from tryouts to the final game.
After an airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate finds unexpected solace in the stories of his great-aunt Vidalia's childhood travels with a Depression-era Negro League baseball team.
In the year 2092, baseball legend Ted Williams is brought back to life through the science of cryogenics.
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While Extra Innings recalls Claire's remarkable baseball career, it also recounts the miraculous story of his cancer fight at City of Hope.
Frank Robinson describes hi rise through professional baseball from player to manager to executive.
A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examined Extra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing ...
Chronicles the first season of baseball's senior league for retired major league ballplayers and includes comments from the league's founder and the star players who returned to the game
Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber.
A collection of nineteen poems about baseball, including playing and watching the game.
Depicts the career of the baseball player, Minnie Minoso, and describes his contributions to the development of the Chicago White Sox into a champion baseball team
Football, basketball, and now baseball—is there anything the Barber brothers won’t try their best to do? The Barbers join the baseball team in this home-run adventure from NFL superstars and bestselling authors Tiki and Ronde Barber.
Extra Innings: New Poems
These stories inevitably involve escape-to something rather than from something or someone-into fun, friendship, love, rock and roll, sports and commitment.
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