Rob
Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything
Else
by Rob Neyer
Paperback from Fireside
The well-told baseball story has long been a staple for baseball fans.
In Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, Neyer breathes new
life into both classic and obscure stories throughout twentieth-century
baseball -- stories that, while engaging on their own, also tell us fascinating
things about their main characters and about the sport's incredibly rich
history. With his signature style, Rob gets to the heart of every anecdote,
working through the particulars with careful research drawn from a variety
of primary sources. For each story, he asks: Did this really happen? Did
it happen, sort of? Or was the story simply the wild invention of someone's
imagination? Among the scores of legends Neyer questions and investigates...
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Did an errant Bob Feller pitch really destroy the career of a National
League All-Star?
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Did Greg Maddux mean to give up a long blast to Jeff Bagwell?
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Was Fred Lynn the clutch player he thinks he was?
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Did Tommy Lasorda have a direct line to God?
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Did Negro Leaguer Gene Benson really knock Indians second baseman Johnny
Berardino out of baseball and into General Hospital?
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Did Billy Martin really outplay Jackie Robinson every time they met?
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Oh, and what about Babe Ruth's "Called Shot"?
Rob checks each story, separates the truths from the myths, and places
their fascinating characters into the larger historical context. Filled
with insider lore and Neyer's sharp wit and insights, this is an exciting
addition to a superb series and an essential read for true fans of our
national pastime. |
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Johnny
Bench (Baseball Legends)
by Mike Shannon
Hardcover from Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 0791011682
A biography of the outstanding catcher who led the Cincinnati Reds to
four National League pennants and two World Series victories in the 1970s. |
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Baseball
Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery (NY) (Images of Baseball)
by Peter J. Nash
Paperback from Arcadia Publishing
Media Published: 2003-
ISBN: 0738534781
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's
foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables,
including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also
has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred
baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior
Clubs of the nineteenth century; Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium
owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick.
The first baseball monument appeared at Green-Wood in 1862 to honor
the game's first martyr and star, James Creighton Jr., initiating baseball's
tradition of honoring its own with stone or bronze memorials. Green-Wood
Cemetery has since served as a model for other tributes, including those
found at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Yankee Stadium's Monument
Park. Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, through painstaking
research, brings these baseball legends back to life with a compelling
array of rare images that tell the story of the game's birth in Brooklyn,
New York City, and Hoboken. |
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1941
-- The Greatest Year In Sports: Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs,
and the Unstoppable Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War
by Mike Vaccaro
Hardcover from Doubleday
Media Published: 2007-
Joe DiMaggio . . . Ted Williams . . . Joe Louis . . . Billy Conn
. . . Whirlaway
Against the backdrop of a war that threatened to consume the world,
these athletes transformed 1941 into one of the most thrilling years in
sports history.
In the summer of 1941, America paid attention to sports with an intensity
that had never been seen before. World War II was raging in Europe and
headlines grew worse by the day; even the most optimistic people began
to accept the inevitability of the United States being drawn into the conflict.
In sports pages and arenas at home, however, an athletic perfect storm
provided unexpected--and uplifting--relief. Four phenomenal sporting events
were underway, each destined to become legend.
In 1941--The Greatest Year in Sports, acclaimed sportswriter
Mike Vaccaro chronicles this astounding moment in history. Fueled by a
somber mania for sports--a desire for good news to drown out the bad--Americans
by the millions fervently watched, listened, and read as Joe DiMaggio dazzled
the country by hitting in a record-setting fifty-six consecutive games;
Ted Williams powered through an unprecedented .406 season; Joe Louis and
Billy Conn (the heavyweight and light-heavyweight champions) battled in
unheard-of fashion for boxing's ultimate championship; and the phenomenal
(some say deranged) thoroughbred, Whirlaway, raced to three heart-stopping
victories that won the coveted Triple Crown of horse racing. As Phil Rizzuto
perfectly expressed, "You read the sports section a lot because you were
afraid of what you'd see in other parts of the paper."
Gripping and nostalgic, 1941--The Greatest Year in Sports focuses
on these four seminal events and brings to life the national excitement
and remarkable achievement (many of these records still stand today), as
well as the vibrant lives of the athletes who captivated the nation. With
vast
insight, Vaccaro pulls back the veil on DiMaggio's anxieties and the building
pressure of "The Streak," and chronicles the brash, young confidence Williams
displayed as he hammered his way through the baseball season largely in
DiMaggio's shadow. He takes readers inside the head of Billy Conn, a kid
who traded in his light-heavyweight belt for a shot at the very decent
and very powerful Joe Louis, and tells the story of the fire-breathing
racehorse, Whirlaway, who was known either for setting track records or
tearing off in the wrong direction.
Rich in historical detail and edge-of-your-seat reporting, Mike Vaccaro
has crafted a lasting, important book that captures a portrait of one of
America's most trying, and extraordinary, eras. |
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The
500 Home Run Club: From Aaron to Williams
Bob Allen, Bill Gilbert
The 500 Home Run Club tells the stories of the 15 men who hit
more than 500 home runs-out of 14,000 major leaguers who played the game-in
their own words talking about themselves and about each other. Over 180
former major leaguers, from Yogi Berra to Don Zimmer, have been interviewed
to get their first-person accounts of playing with and against baseball's
15 most dominant sluggers. Amazon.com
Hardcover
Musial
: From Stash to Stan the Man (Missouri Biography Series)
by James N. Giglio
Hardcover - 345 pages
University of Missouri Press; ISBN: 0826213367
Rube
Waddell : The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist
by Alan Howard Levy
Mel
Ott : The Little Giant of Baseball
by Fred Stein
Cy
Young : A Baseball Life
by Reed Browning
Mickey
Cochrane : The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher
by Charlie Bevis
(Paperback)
Jimmie
Foxx
by Mark R. Millikin
(Hardcover )
Jimmie
Foxx : The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967
by W. Harrison Daniel
(Hardcover)
Honus Wagner : The Life of Baseball's 'Flying Dutchman'
by Arthur D. Hittner
(Hardcover- August )
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Honus
Wagner : A Biography
by Dennis DeValeria, Jeanne Burke DeValeria
(Paperback- April )
Honus
: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hero
by William Hageman
(Hardcover- June )
Dugout
Days : Untold Tales and Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Career
of Billy Martin
by Michael DeMarco
(Hardcover- April )
Whitey
Ford (Baseball Hall of Famers)
by Arthea Nolan
(Library Binding)
Micky Mantle
Minnie
and the Mick : The Go-Go White Sox Challenge the Fabled Yankee Dynasty,
1951 to 1964
by Bob Vanderberg
(Hardcover- November )
Mickey
Mantle : The Yankee Years : The Classic Photography of Ozzie Sweet
by Ozzie Sweet (Photographer), Larry Canale
(Hardcover)
The
Quality of Courage
by Mickey Mantle, Robert W. Creamer (Introduction)
(Paperback)
The
Mick
by Mickey Mantle, Herb Gluck (Contributor)
(Paperback - April 1986)
My
Favorite Summer, 1956
by Mickey Mantle, Phil Pepe
(Paperback)
All
My Octobers (Harper Spotlight)
by Mickey Mantle, Mickey Herskowitz
(Paperback- April )
Yogi Berra
The
Yogi Book : 'I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said'
by Yogi Berra, et al
(Paperback)
When
You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One
of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
by Yogi Berra, et al
(Hardcover)
Connie Mack
Connie
Mack : A Life in Baseball
by Ted Davis
Paperback - 232 pages
Lightning Source; ISBN: 0595121128
Connie
Mack's '29 Triumph : The Rise and Fall of the Philadelphia Athletics Dynasty
by William C. Kashatus
Hank Greenberg
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg ()
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Hank
Greenberg : The Story of My Life
by Hank Greenberg, Ira Berkow (Contributor)
(Hardcover)
Hank
Greenberg : Hall-Of-Fame Slugger (The JPS Young Biography Series)
by Ira Berkow, Mick Ellison (Illustrator)
(Hardcover - April 1991)
Walter Johnson
Walter
Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
by Henry W. Thomas
Hardcover - 458 pages (March )
Farragut Pub Co; ISBN: 0964543907
Cal Ripken Jr
Cal:
Celebrating the Career of a Baseball Legend
by Sporting News (Editor), The Sporting News
Hardcover - 176 pages (October 24, )
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Cal
: A Tribute to an American Hero
by York Daily Record (Editor)
Lefty Grove
Lefty
Grove : American Original
by Jim Kaplan
Paperback - 225 pages
Bison Bks Corp; ISBN: 0910137803
Joe Jackson
Shoeless
: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson
by David L. Fleitz
Paperback - 320 pages
McFarland & Company; ISBN: 0786409789
Don Zimmer
Zim
: A Baseball Life
by Don Zimmer, et al
Hardcover - 304 pages (April 9, )
Total Sports; ISBN: 1930844190
Casey Stengel
Stengel
: His Life and Times
by Robert W. Creamer
Paperback Reprint edition
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803263678
Roger Maris
Roger Maris : A Man for All Seasons
by Maury Allen
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Roger Maris : A Title to Fame
by Harvey Rosenfeld
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Maris, missing from the Hall of Fame
by C. W. Edwards
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Fouled Away : The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson
by Clifton Blue Parker
A hundred and ninety-one. Mention the number anywhere near a ballpark
and before you can ask who or what, fans will almost certainly shape their
lips with a single word: Wilson. Amazon.com
Paperback - 232 pages
McFarland & Company; ISBN: 0786408642
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