Bums narrates the colorful history of this beloved team with recollections from the players, the writers who covered them, and fans.

    Comprehensive introduction to "new statistics" in baseball.

    

    Sparky Anderson, the Tigers' colorful manager and 1984 American League Manager of the Year, tells all in this, his day-by-day diary of the making of a championship ball club.

    Here is the brilliant manager stripped naked—the person underneath all the clowning, mugging, and double-talking. Robert Creamer shows us Casey at twenty-two, famous from his very first day in the big leagues. We see Casey’s playing career fall apart as he is traded, shunted to last-place teams, hampered by injuries, considered finished—until he bats a glorious home run in the 1923 World Series. Here are Casey’s managing successes and failures—dismissed by the Yankees, he returns to the limelight with his new and inept New York Mets, the team he single-handedly lifts into the nation’s consciousness.“I’m a man that’s been up and down,” Casey said in a serious moment. Certainly his knack for bouncing back made him a legend in our national pastime. Here are the stories and gags, the Stengelian style, the full dimensions of the man.

    Kerrane is a professor of English at the University of Delaware.

    Illustrations.

    Color photographs of great moments and great players of the past twenty years in baseball, accompanied by an essay on the sport and the photographer.

    

    

    

    Ten stories deal with a farmer who loves baseball, a carpenter repairing a broken doll, a clever prostitute, and a wandering salesman

    Uses photographs and anecdotes to present the history of the Boston Red Sox, including their legendary players, triumphs, and disappointments.

    A nine-year-old Brooklyn boy from an immigrant Jewish family makes his passion for baseball the guiding force of his life.