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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
epub |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:David Maraniss [Maraniss, David]

( Category: Biographies December 6,2017 )
Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain by Marty Appel
epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Marty Appel [Appel, Marty]

Canton, Sunday, July 22 While the Yankees were at home playing the Mariners, back home in Canton Bill Shearer was having a Sunday breakfast with Jack Dole at a farm ...
( Category: Biographies December 6,2017 )
The Matheny Manifesto by Mike Matheny
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Mike Matheny [Matheny, Mike]

I HADN’T BEEN told there would be nine highly touted catchers at Michigan that season—my third unpleasant surprise. That made it all the more gratifying to win the job and ...
( Category: Coaching November 30,2017 )
Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Roger Kahn [Kahn, Roger]

Dog-Day Nights No one can really explain what happened next, but, quite simply, fortune turned. We had been both good and lucky in playing .800 baseball and now the team ...
( Category: Baseball November 29,2017 )
Inside the Park: Running the Base Path of Life by Willie Wilson & Kent Pulliam
epub |eng | 2013-09-01 | Author:Willie Wilson & Kent Pulliam [Wilson, Willie & Pulliam, Kent]

21 SUSPENDED I got out nine days early for good behavior and then I went home for just a little bit. Then I had to go to spring training. For ...
( Category: Biographies November 28,2017 )
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro De MacOris by Mark Kurlansky
epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Mark Kurlansky [Kurlansky, Mark]

Many of the streets of San Pedro were unpaved, or the pavement was so badly crumbling that they were in the process of unpaving. Like all Caribbean towns, San Pedro ...
( Category: Baseball November 28,2017 )
Blue by Richard A. Merk
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-08 | Author:Richard A. Merk

Poks’ twitching became more pronounced. “That’s not what I meant, you stupid female!” He was becoming exasperated. At Carter’s pouty uncomprehending look, Poks began angrily explaining what he wanted. All ...
( Category: Architecture November 27,2017 )
The Baseball Whisperer by Michael Tackett
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tackett

8 No Bright Lights CHUCK KNOBLAUCH PACKED his bags in College Station, Texas. He had completed his freshman season at Texas A&M, where he’d validated his reputation as a player ...
( Category: Biographies November 27,2017 )
The Yogi Book by Yogi Berra
mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Yogi Berra

That’s Larry having a good time watching Carmen help me pack, back in the early days. Or should I say both of us were watching Carmen do the packing? “When ...
( Category: Baseball November 26,2017 )
100 Things Cubs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jimmy Greenfield
epub |eng | 2012-02-17 | Author:Jimmy Greenfield [Greenfield, Jimmy]

Rick Sutcliffe gets set to deliver another pitch during the first inning against the San Diego Padres in National League playoff action on October 2, 1984, in Chicago. Versatile Sutcliffe ...
( Category: United States November 26,2017 )
100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die by Jon Weisman
epub |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Jon Weisman

48. Chief Noc-a-Homa and Joe Morgan The two leading hitters for the 1982 Dodgers were named Topsy and Turvy. The ping-ponging jolts of that season, even more than in years ...
( Category: United States November 26,2017 )
Painting the Corners by Bob Weintraub
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Bob Weintraub

• THE SHORT END OF IMMORTALITY • “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.” —Vin Scully YOU WANT TO know how I feel ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2017 )
Now Batting for Boston: More Stories by J. G. Hayes by J. G Hayes
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-09-09 | Author:J. G Hayes

I GOT MY LICENSE back that week. Monday afternoon when I got home from work my apartment was hot, it was end of spring now, May, right? So I took ...
( Category: Americas November 23,2017 )
Terror in the City of Champions by Tom Stanton
epub |eng | 2016-11-22 | Author:Tom Stanton [Stanton, Tom]

Detroit fans had not grown complacent. They remained exuberant. The winning of the league title brought 100,000 fans downtown on September 21. They crushed onto Woodward Avenue, halting traffic in ...
( Category: Baseball November 22,2017 )
Greatness in the Shadows by Douglas M. Branson
epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Douglas M. Branson [Branson, Douglas M.]

Beginnings of the Legend Any retrospective on the Mantle legend should emphasize the stellar achievements of a baseball player called “a hero all his life,” “the Natural,” “the All-American boy.”9 ...
( Category: Biographies November 15,2017 )

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