Bill Buckner’s boot to end Game 6 of the 1986 World Series is one of baseball’s most memorable plays. But that gargantuan gaffe and the Mets’ miracle comeback against the Red Sox have come to overshadow what may very well be the most dramatic and exciting League Championships and World Series in baseball history. From the heroics of Dave Henderson, Billy Hatcher, and Ray Knight, to the heartbreak of Donnie Moore, Calvin Schiraldi, and Gene Mauch, October baseball has never had so many extra-inning battles, last-minute heroics, incredible victories, or devastating defeats. One Pitch Away is the inside story of these incredible games and the men who played them. Renowned baseball historian Mike Sowell, author of The Pitch That Killed, combines expert research with intimate access to all the key actors in the incredible post-season dramas. Featuring portraits of Mike Scott, Gary Carter, Mookie Wilson, Mike Witt, Bob Stanley, and many more, One Pitch Away brings you inside the locker room and into the hearts and minds of the players who made the 1986 post season one for the ages.
Few writers know more about pitching, and few pitchers know more about writing than Pat Jordan. Suitors of Spring is a collection of eight of Jordan's essays about pitchers and pitching, originally published in Sports Illustrated. From the cultivated genius of Tom Seaver, to the irresistible wisdom of Johnny Sain, to the tragic mystery of Steve Dalkowski, the fastest pitcher ever, Jordan's portraits show us, simply and hauntingly, that wins and losses have more to do with a pitcher's heart and mind than his velocity and location.
Seamheads' Mike Lynch turns his keen eye for the amazing and unusual to baseball's biggest stage, the World Series, in Volume II of his acclaimed Baseball's Untold History Series. Read about the least likely heroes, biggest MVP flops, the oddest World Series stat lines, and an all-time O-fer line-up. Meet the 16-game winner who spent the series in an insane asylum; the Hall of Famer who was arrested for scalping World Series tickets; the only player to be picked off twice in the same Fall Classic game; the hurler who belted the only home run of his long professional career in his first series at bat; and much, much more.
An anthology of nine touching and funny stories by the editor of Spitball Magazine, and author of 16 baseball books. The book is filled with characters from all walks of life, all of whom are gripped, one way or another, by the force of that feeling so many of us have for baseball. Among the book's characters are a lottery winner whose dream of owning a baseball team turns into a nightmare; a lonely man who has a blind date among the Bleacher Bums at Wrigley Field; and appearances by Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, and the spirit of Pete Rose.
A day-by-day, game-by-game recounting, with humorous and insightful commentary, and historical notes, of the 2016 season that took the Chicago Cubs to the World Championship for the first time in 108 years.
W. Nikola-Lisa explores a fascinating corner of baseball history in The Men Who Made the Yankees, which traces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankees' first world championship title in 1923. Less a history of players, The Men Who Made the Yankees focuses on a handful of powerful club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League team in New York City. A baseball enthusiast from a young age, Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War, a work of historical fiction set in Boston during the waning days of the first world war.
The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association. Best-selling author Peter Golenbock spent the season with the league champion St. Petersburg Pelicans. Like the league's other seven teams, the Pelicans were a collection of former and near major leaguers - some desperate for a return to The Show, some in need of a pay check, all grateful for the joyous opportunity to suit up for another ballgame. Golenbock's genius in capturing the essence of the men he writes about has never been more evident. His pitch-perfect ear for dialog and anecdotes, and deep understanding of the game, take you right onto the bus, into the clubhouse, and side-by-side with the ballplayers. Full of triumphs and failures, hopes and memories, one-liners and muscle pulls, The Forever Boys is a priceless time capsule of 1970s and 80s baseball. Featuring Dock Ellis, Bobby Tolan, Steve Kemp, Lenny Randle, John Matlack, Ron LeFlore, Bill Lee, Ferguson Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Tim Stoddard, Dick Williams, Earl Weaver, Bert Campane
Los relatos de Barra americana se mueven entre la sosegada paz de los campus universitarios del Medio Oeste y el desbocado ajetreo de las fiestas playeras y los concursos de miss camiseta mojada en el Spring Break de Florida; entre los locales nocturnos del blues de Chicago y un motel en el South Side regentado por una dominatrix muy sensible; entre Disneyworld y el Mall of America; entre las vacas sagradas de Wisconsin y el béisbol como metáfora; entre los clientes de Cheers y la Maxell Corporation of America con su mecanismo de casete silencioso. En Barra americana los personajes aceptan prácticas de riesgo narrativas, forman parte de artefactos literarios, se dejan guiar, por un tour operador alucinado, en un viaje al corazón de las nieblas y los tornados, a la medida aventura de los manglares, a la inercia de los campos deportivos. Mitad relato de ficción mitad crónica, en este libro la memoria inventa su propia caducidad y la historia íntima se escribe con materiales ajenos.
Guía de los principios técnicos y las reglas oficiales del béisbol. Incluye: equipamiento e indumentaria, terreno de juego, el partido, jugadas y reglas básicas, arbitraje, anotación, glosario, etc.
Fenómeno social en Japón (un millón de ejemplares y otro millón en formato de bolsillo, película, cómic y CD) que desató un inusitado interés por las matemáticas, esta novela catapultó a Yoko Ogawa a la fama internacional. En ella se nos cuenta la historia de una madre soltera que entra a trabajar como asistenta en casa de un viejo y huraño profesor de matemáticas que perdió en un accidente la autonomía de su memoria (sólo le dura 80 minutos). Aislado socialmente y obsesionado por los números, el profesor se irá encariñando con la asistenta y su hijo de 10 años, con quien comparte la pasión por el béisbol, hasta que se fragua entre los tres una improbable historia de amor, amistad y transmisión del saber. Una novela que genera fe en el alma humana, ahora en edición ilustrada por Montse Martín Juárez y con un epílogo de la autora para celebrar su 20ª edición en español.
Bill Buckner’s boot to end Game 6 of the 1986 World Series is one of baseball’s most memorable plays. But that gargantuan gaffe and the Mets’ miracle comeback against the Red Sox have come to overshadow what may very well be the most dramatic and exciting League Championships and World Series in baseball history. From the heroics of Dave Henderson, Billy Hatcher, and Ray Knight, to the heartbreak of Donnie Moore, Calvin Schiraldi, and Gene Mauch, October baseball has never had so many extra-inning battles, last-minute heroics, incredible victories, or devastating defeats. One Pitch Away is the inside story of these incredible games and the men who played them. Renowned baseball historian Mike Sowell, author of The Pitch That Killed, combines expert research with intimate access to all the key actors in the incredible post-season dramas. Featuring portraits of Mike Scott, Gary Carter, Mookie Wilson, Mike Witt, Bob Stanley, and many more, One Pitch Away brings you inside the locker room and into the hearts and minds of the players who made the 1986 post season one for the ages.
Few writers know more about pitching, and few pitchers know more about writing than Pat Jordan. Suitors of Spring is a collection of eight of Jordan's essays about pitchers and pitching, originally published in Sports Illustrated. From the cultivated genius of Tom Seaver, to the irresistible wisdom of Johnny Sain, to the tragic mystery of Steve Dalkowski, the fastest pitcher ever, Jordan's portraits show us, simply and hauntingly, that wins and losses have more to do with a pitcher's heart and mind than his velocity and location.
Seamheads' Mike Lynch turns his keen eye for the amazing and unusual to baseball's biggest stage, the World Series, in Volume II of his acclaimed Baseball's Untold History Series. Read about the least likely heroes, biggest MVP flops, the oddest World Series stat lines, and an all-time O-fer line-up. Meet the 16-game winner who spent the series in an insane asylum; the Hall of Famer who was arrested for scalping World Series tickets; the only player to be picked off twice in the same Fall Classic game; the hurler who belted the only home run of his long professional career in his first series at bat; and much, much more.
An anthology of nine touching and funny stories by the editor of Spitball Magazine, and author of 16 baseball books. The book is filled with characters from all walks of life, all of whom are gripped, one way or another, by the force of that feeling so many of us have for baseball. Among the book's characters are a lottery winner whose dream of owning a baseball team turns into a nightmare; a lonely man who has a blind date among the Bleacher Bums at Wrigley Field; and appearances by Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, and the spirit of Pete Rose.
A day-by-day, game-by-game recounting, with humorous and insightful commentary, and historical notes, of the 2016 season that took the Chicago Cubs to the World Championship for the first time in 108 years.
W. Nikola-Lisa explores a fascinating corner of baseball history in The Men Who Made the Yankees, which traces the rise of the New York Yankees from the origin of the American League to the Yankees' first world championship title in 1923. Less a history of players, The Men Who Made the Yankees focuses on a handful of powerful club owners and the political and financial pressures that dramatically shaped the arrival of an American League team in New York City. A baseball enthusiast from a young age, Mr. Nikola-Lisa is also the author of Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War, a work of historical fiction set in Boston during the waning days of the first world war.
The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association. Best-selling author Peter Golenbock spent the season with the league champion St. Petersburg Pelicans. Like the league's other seven teams, the Pelicans were a collection of former and near major leaguers - some desperate for a return to The Show, some in need of a pay check, all grateful for the joyous opportunity to suit up for another ballgame. Golenbock's genius in capturing the essence of the men he writes about has never been more evident. His pitch-perfect ear for dialog and anecdotes, and deep understanding of the game, take you right onto the bus, into the clubhouse, and side-by-side with the ballplayers. Full of triumphs and failures, hopes and memories, one-liners and muscle pulls, The Forever Boys is a priceless time capsule of 1970s and 80s baseball. Featuring Dock Ellis, Bobby Tolan, Steve Kemp, Lenny Randle, John Matlack, Ron LeFlore, Bill Lee, Ferguson Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Tim Stoddard, Dick Williams, Earl Weaver, Bert Campane
Los relatos de Barra americana se mueven entre la sosegada paz de los campus universitarios del Medio Oeste y el desbocado ajetreo de las fiestas playeras y los concursos de miss camiseta mojada en el Spring Break de Florida; entre los locales nocturnos del blues de Chicago y un motel en el South Side regentado por una dominatrix muy sensible; entre Disneyworld y el Mall of America; entre las vacas sagradas de Wisconsin y el béisbol como metáfora; entre los clientes de Cheers y la Maxell Corporation of America con su mecanismo de casete silencioso. En Barra americana los personajes aceptan prácticas de riesgo narrativas, forman parte de artefactos literarios, se dejan guiar, por un tour operador alucinado, en un viaje al corazón de las nieblas y los tornados, a la medida aventura de los manglares, a la inercia de los campos deportivos. Mitad relato de ficción mitad crónica, en este libro la memoria inventa su propia caducidad y la historia íntima se escribe con materiales ajenos.
Guía de los principios técnicos y las reglas oficiales del béisbol. Incluye: equipamiento e indumentaria, terreno de juego, el partido, jugadas y reglas básicas, arbitraje, anotación, glosario, etc.
Fenómeno social en Japón (un millón de ejemplares y otro millón en formato de bolsillo, película, cómic y CD) que desató un inusitado interés por las matemáticas, esta novela catapultó a Yoko Ogawa a la fama internacional. En ella se nos cuenta la historia de una madre soltera que entra a trabajar como asistenta en casa de un viejo y huraño profesor de matemáticas que perdió en un accidente la autonomía de su memoria (sólo le dura 80 minutos). Aislado socialmente y obsesionado por los números, el profesor se irá encariñando con la asistenta y su hijo de 10 años, con quien comparte la pasión por el béisbol, hasta que se fragua entre los tres una improbable historia de amor, amistad y transmisión del saber. Una novela que genera fe en el alma humana, ahora en edición ilustrada por Montse Martín Juárez y con un epílogo de la autora para celebrar su 20ª edición en español.