Small though that number is, it is inflated by dozens of skippers with only a few weeks or months at the helm of a club. If we were to define "real" managers as those who have managed a thousand games - not, after all, a terribly high bar to hurdle, fewer than seven full seasons - we would find that fewer than one hundred men qualify. Now Bill James, "the guru of baseball" (Newsweek), takes on the challenge of chronicling that history, including a decade-by-decade snapshot of baseball strategy from the 1870s through the 1990s.

    Conlon who took thousands of photographs of the baseball heroes of his day, including stars such as Cy Young, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Honus Wagner, Home Run Baker, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. His work covers the golden age of baseball, from 1904 to 1942, and captures the drama, power and human emotion of the game. The authors have supplied anecdotal captions.

    His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother’s passion was for poetry. Somehow, young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the New York Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Time.Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era—Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Red Smith, Dick Young, and many more—and recollects the wittiest lines from forty years in dugouts, press boxes, and newsrooms. Often hilarious, always precise about action on the field and off, Memories of Summer is an enduring classic about how baseball met literature to the benefit of both.

    This book revisits the main performers of this illustrious team and weaves their stories into a cohesive narrative that captures all the drama and color of Detroit's 1968 season.

    Baseball has never been chronicled they way this timeline works. It covers every great moment in baseball, along with the colorful people, events, quotations, turning points, scandals, comic moments, and nostalgia of the national sport. Unlike any other baseball book, The Baseball Timeline is a day-by-day, year-by-year account of what happened throughout the baseball world. Every significant event is chronicled with just the level of detail fans want. In addition to individual feats, entries include landmark pennant races, important trades, disputes (on and off the field), famous firsts and lasts, franchise shifts, the openings of new ball parks, and even details of the last game played at stadiums scheduled for demolition. Keep The Baseball Timeline by the TV; let it stand as a home reference that provides nostalgic memories, "the last word" in disputes, or the one place to ensure that you know what really happened. It is a baseball fan's paradise for sidelights, trivia, nostalgia, color, and "I never knew that!" information. Lively text invites readers in for an exciting tour of the past beginning with its possible origins as an Native American game and continuing on through the first season of the new millennium.

    Unless the business of baseball changes drastically, it will be mighty tough to assemble a team of all-star players and keep them together long enough to build the sort of dominance the Cincinnati Reds (and their fans) enjoyed in the 1970s. Greg Rhodes and John Erardi present this formidable marriage of all-stars and brilliant coaching with anecdotes, quotes, pictures, and year-by-year commentary. The exciting rise of the Reds begins with the arrival of general manager Bob Howsam in 1967 and subsequent hiring of little-known Sparky Anderson three years later and gains momentum with the grooming of one of the greatest lineups to take the field. Over the course of seven years, the Big Red Machine won consecutive World Series, four National League pennants, and five National League Western Division titles. The "Great Eight"--led by Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Davey Concepcion, and George Foster--earned 63 All-Star selections, six MVP awards, and 26 Gold Gloves. The glory of this dynasty, maybe the last of its kind, is preserved with a careful, knowledgeable touch and a true fan's attention to drama and detail.

    The mighty Beymer Buffalo baseball team struggles to win games while the players struggle to win love.

    It traces the history of one of Major League Baseball's most successful organizations, from the misty beginnings of its predecessors in rural Brooklyn more than 140 years ago, through their formative years in the major leagues, as a member of the American Association from 1884 through 1889, to a full-fledged representative of the National League since 1890. It covers the exciting and often zany years in Brooklyn through 1957, as well as a long and successful sojourn in Southern California during the last half of the 20th century and the first part of the new millennium (2002).

    Drawing on the reminiscences of forty-five fervent fans, this spellbinding oral history celebrates baseball’s powerful hold on our national consciousness-from a journalist who remembers his excitement when he first saw Jackie Robinson in the majors to a nun who looks back fondly on her stint at the Texas Rangers’ fantasy camp.

    Now, as part of the Sports Illustrated's Collector's Library Series, the magazines finest writing on baseball has been gathered together in one entertaining volume.

    Professional sports teams are demanding and receiving fancy new playing facilities that are heavily subsidized by government. In many cases, the rationale given for these subsidies is that attracting or retaining a professional sports franchise—even a minor league baseball team or a major league pre-season training facility--more than pays for itself in increased tax revenues, local economic development, and job creation.But are these claims true? To assess the case for subsidies, this book examines the economic impact of new stadiums and the presence of a sports franchise on the local economy. It first explores such general issues as the appropriate method for measuring economic benefits and costs, the source of the bargaining power of teams in obtaining subsidies from local government, the local politics of attracting and retaining teams, the relationship between sports and local employment, and the importance of stadium design in influencing the economic impact of a facility.The second part of the book contains case studies of major league sports facilities in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities, and of minor league stadiums and spring training facilities in baseball. The primary conclusions are: first, sports teams and facilities are not a source of local economic growth and employment; second, the magnitude of the net subsidy exceeds the financial benefit of a new stadium to a team; and, third, the most plausible reasons that cities are willing to subsidize sports teams are the intense popularity of sports among a substantial proportion of voters and businesses and the leverage that teams enjoy from the monopoly position of professional sports leagues.

    This title includes: 700 illustrations, including a 16-page color section; statistics through the 1996 season on hitting streaks and ERA's, box scores, trades; and a roster of managers, players and position leaders.

    stands as a steadfast example of what makes baseball "America's game". Now the team that gave readers Rare Air and Andretti provides an up-close look at this future hall-of-famer. 100 color photos.

    Artist Beverley Ransom's colorful drawings truly capture the playful spirit of baseball in this innovative interpretation of tarot Book includes instructions for playing a game of baseball with the cards.

    And kvetch he did, for the next 15 years. As the Dodgers moved out of the city and Nixon moved in, through Vietnam and Reagan, Oppenheimer painted a portrait of an era that was profoundly affecting a generation of young people and that ultimately changed the country.

    These traditions are brought back to life in Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan -- 186 pages of team histories, rare photos, and location maps for all the communities in Michigan that have participated in professional baseball leagues dating back to the 1880s. All the diamond heroes of yesterday are remembered in this volume, along with the baseball pioneers and the ballparks that provided the memories for generations of fans in Michigan. An enjoyable and informative journey through time that is unprecedented for any state -- a treasure chest for sports fans and an irresistible reference volume for any sports library.

    In his own words and through the lens of award-winning photographer Walter Iooss, Jr., Griffey's photographic autobiography reveals a private life that revolves around his family, the relationships between Griffey and his teammates, his early life around the Cincinnati Reds and later the New York Yankees, the influence of his parents, the feelings a son feels when reading about his father in the local newspapers, the balance provided by Griffey's wife, Melissa, and their two children and the swing that hasn't changed since he first picked up a bat.

    Rose learns how to deal with her condition and how to minimize its effects on her life. Explains juvenile diabetes and treatments, and includes a glossary at the end.

    Collects humorous quotations on the Bronx Bombers, from coaches, players, commentators, and fans.

    Veteran sportswriter Maury Allen, who spent hundreds of hours with Mantle during both the good times and the bad, paints a revealing portrait and a piercing analysis of Mantle's life. More than 100 photographs taken by the Yankees' official team photographer Bob Olen cover Mantle's legendary career from 1950 to his final appearance in 1995.