"Baseball: 365 Days" is a colourful, surprising, even moving panorama of modern baseball, covering the 1960s up to the present day. Vivid, revealing images from Major League Baseball's rich photo archives trace the arc of a ballplayer's career, touching on childhood triumphs, minor-league struggles and the triumphs and tribulations of life in the ...
A great Father's Day gift, this second volume of oral histories from former Major League Baseball Commissioner Vincent covers the 1950s and 1960s, the era when baseball expanded across the country. 40 b&w photographs throughout.
In these nine essays on baseball, a professor writes on changes in the game over the years--and includes essays on Branch Rickey and Larry McPhail, and on the decision of the Boston Braves to move to Milwaukee in 1953.
Nineteen sixty-two - it's been called 'the end of innocence', as America witnessed the Cuban Missile Crisis and the following year saw the Kennedy assassination and the early stirrings of Vietnam. In baseball, 1962 was a thrilling season. Five years prior the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had migrated west to Los Angeles and San Francisco, ...
This reexamination of some of baseball's most enduring barroom debates reconceives and what-ifs a number of baseball legends, asking if Babe Ruth was truly as great as his legacy, resurrecting the argument as to who was the better player in the 1950s, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle, and making the case for Mike Schmidt as a candidate for "Player of ...
No season in the history of baseball matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the perennially hapless Washington Nationals (Senators), making their first Series appearance, grabbed the world ...
From 1921 through 1930, the young George E. Outland, who would go on to be a professor and United States Congressman, documented his love for baseball by arriving early at major league and Pacific Coast League ballgames armed with his camera and an album of his own photographs. He used his photographs to gain access to some of the greatest players ...
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