Best Players In Baseball History - April 2024

Incredible Baseball Stats: The Coolest, Strangest Stats and Facts in Baseball History

With forewords by Wade Boggs and Lance McCullers, Jr, here is a modern stat book for modern fans. Whether you follow the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Giants, or another Major League team, you fill find something new and fascinating!As America's pastime since the mid-1800s, baseball offers the sights, sounds, and even smells that are deeply entrenched in our culture. But for some, the experience can be less sensory. Some, such as Ryan Spaeder and Kevin Reavy, live for baseball statistics. Stats give the game historical context and measurables for past, present, and predictive analysis.Incredible ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1683583124
• ASIN: 1683583124
• ISBN: 1683583124
• Brand: Sports Publishing
• Manufacturer: Sports Publishing

Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Home Run Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More! (Legends: Best Players, Games, & Teams)

“With the LEGENDS series, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that sports has to offer—the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports-loving kid should know.”—Mike Lupica, #1 bestselling author of Travel Team, Heat, and Fantasy League Experience baseball's most exciting moments, World Series heroics, greatest players, and more! Baseball, America's pastime, is a sport of moments that stand the test of time. It is equally a sport of a new generation of heroes, whose exploits inspire today's young fans. This combination makes for a winning debut in Legends: The Best Pl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 014751262X
• ASIN: 014751262X
• ISBN: 014751262X
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Dingers: The 101 Most Memorable Home Runs in Baseball History

From splitters to spitters; from a frozen rope to the suicide squeeze; from extra innings to no hitters, baseball is truly a great game. But nothing hypes up a crowd like a home run, a round tripper, a big bomb . . . the long ball! Hitting the ball out of the park is one of the greatest feats in baseball, and doing so in the clutch can make an average player a hero overnight.In Dingers, authors Joshua Shifrin and Tom Shea break down the 101 most memorable home runs in baseball history, telling their stories and how they affected the game of baseball. Whether it’s “The Shot Heard ’Round th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1613218311
• ASIN: 1613218311
• ISBN: 1613218311
• Brand: Sports Publishing
• Manufacturer: Sports Publishing

K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches

From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of todayThe baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385541015
• ASIN: 0385541015
• ISBN: 0385541015
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Anchor Sports)

Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making it big. But looming above it all is always the real deal: Major League Baseball. John Feinstein takes the reader behind the curtain into the guarded world of the minor leagues, like no other writer can. Where Nobody Knows Your Name explores the trials and travails of the inhabitants of Triple-A, focusing on nine men, including players, managers and umpires, among many colorful characters, living on the cusp of the dream. The book tells the stories of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307949583
• ASIN: 0307949583
• ISBN: 0307949583
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond

At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in THE GREAT... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1592280838
• ASIN: 1592280838
• ISBN: 1592280838
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

Baseball's Best: Five True Stories (Step into Reading)

Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron—five amazing baseball legends. From the first black man to play major-league ball to the longest hitting streak ever, these are some of the game’s most inspiring stories. Find out what unforgettable feats won each player a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

• ASIN: 0394809831
• ASIN: 0394809831
• ISBN: 0394809831
• Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers

Sports Illustrated Baseball's Greatest

Who's the greatest slugger of all time, Babe Ruth or Ted Williams? Where do Derek Jeter and Cal Ripken Jr. rank on the list of the best shortstops? At third base, would you rather have Mike Schmidt or Brooks Robinson? Is Fenway or Wrigley the better ballpark?This book will end many arguments-and start some new ones. Sports Illustrated's has polled its Major League Baseball experts to determine the ultimate Top 10 in more than 20 categories. The rankings appear alongside stunning photography and classic stories from SI's archives. This is the best of the best in the major leagues, or, more simp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1618930559
• ASIN: 1618930559
• ISBN: 9781618930552
• Brand: Sports Illustrated Books
• Manufacturer: Sports Illustrated

Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Basketball

From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ESPN's Howard Bryant presents the best from the hardwood--a collection of NBA champions and superstars for young sports fans! Fast-paced, adrenaline-filled, and brimming with out-of-this-world athleticism, basketball has won the hearts of fans all across America—yet it is particularly popular among kids and teens. Giants of the game like Steph Curry, LeBron, and Michael Jordan have transcended the sport to become cultural icons and role models to young fans. From the cornfields of Indiana and the hills of North Carolina, t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147512573
• ASIN: 0147512573
• ISBN: 0147512573
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Players In Pigtails

• ASIN: 0439183057
• ASIN: 0439183057
• ISBN: 0439183057
• Brand: Scholastic Press
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

Players: How Sports Became a Business

“Provocative…terrific stories” (The New Yorker) of the people who transformed sports—in the span of a single generation—from a job that required even top athletes to work in the off-season to make ends meet into a massive global business.It started, as most business deals do, with a handshake. In 1960, a Cleveland lawyer named Mark McCormack convinced a golfer named Arnold Palmer to sign with him. McCormack simply believed that the best athletes had more commercial value than they were being paid for—and he was right. Within a few years, he raised Palmer’s annual income from $5,0... [Read More]

• ASIN: 147671696X
• ASIN: 147671696X
• ISBN: 147671696X
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Lineup for Yesterday

In 1949, SPORT magazine published Lineup for Yesterday, a collection of poems by Ogden Nash celebrating the greatest big-league baseball players of the 1800s and early 1900s. Using an alphabetical approach, the famous wordsmith paid entertaining tribute to 24 legends of the diamond, encapsulating each in just 4 clever lines. Creative Editions is proud to present this masterpiece to a new generation of fans, reintroducing icons from the formative years of professional baseball. The masterful mixed-media illustrations of C. F. Payne portray these heroes of summer in their athletic primes in this... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1568462123
• ASIN: 1568462123
• ISBN: 1568462123
• Brand: Creative Editions
• Manufacturer: Creative Editions

The Story of Baseball: In 100 Photographs

A New York Times Bestseller Through 100 Evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of baseball, America’s past time. From the dawn of the professional era, through the days of Babe Ruth, the westward expansion and the thrilling championships of today, baseball’s rich and remarkable history is here. Inspiring events such as Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier, Lou Gehrig’s Luckiest Man speech and one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott’s 1993 no-hitter live in a continuum with stirring photos of the game�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1547800011
• ASIN: 1547800011
• ISBN: 1547800011
• Manufacturer: Sports Illustrated

The 50 Greatest Players in New York Yankees History

The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball’s most renowned and successful franchise. Baseball greats such as Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter have all worn the famous navy blue and white pinstripes. The Yankees have won twenty-seven World Series, and twenty-nine players who spent at least a year with the team have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. With so many Hall of Famers to choose from, selecting the best players in the history of the franchise might seem impossible; yet, that is exactly what Robert W. Cohen has done.This book carefully examines the careers of th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1589798155
• ASIN: 1589798155
• ISBN: 1589798155
• Manufacturer: Scarecrow Press

Baseball: Then to WOW! (Sports Illustrated Kids Then to WOW!)

Baseball: Then to WOW! shows readers how baseball has evolved from the early days of the 1920s to the game it is today. Using MLB action photographs, illustrations, stories, and trivia, the book is a journey through time both for baseball fans and those new to the game. Kids will learn how basic equipment has changed from fingerless gloves to specially tailored leather-bound mitts and how the evolution of game strategy has transformed the sport, players, and equipment. Players throughout history are stacked up against each other in every position so fans can dream up the perfect fantasy team w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1618931423
• ASIN: 1618931423
• ISBN: 1618931423
• Brand: Time Inc Home Entertaiment
• Manufacturer: Sports Illustrated Kids

Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! and Much, Much More!

Presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most notable players, teams, rivalries, and moments, from Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier to the home run race between Sammy Sosa and

• UPC: 42083227

Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups : A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues

Provides a close-up look at every position on every major-league team, past and present, to answer controversial questions about the best and worst players in the major leagues and offers fascinating new insights into the

• UPC: 2135819
• Rating: 3.0

Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball : World Series Heroics! Greatest Home Run Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More!

In this volume, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that baseball has to offer--the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports--loving kid should

• UPC: 48452461

The Cubs Way : The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

-With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest

• UPC: 55219799
• Color: Other
• Size: No Size
• Rating: 4.75

Neymar : A Boy Who Became a Star. Inspiring Children Book about Neymar - One of the Best Soccer Players in History. (Soccer Book for Kids)

Neymar: A Boy Who Became a Star This is the inspiring children story of Neymar, a boy who became a star. Learn about Neymar, and learn how to be successful doing what you love. Perfect

• UPC: 350046826

Stephen Curry : Never Give Up. a Boy Who Became a Star. Inspiring Children Book about One of the Best Basketball Players in History.

Stephen Curry: Never Give UpThis is the inspiring children story of Stephen Curry, a boy who became a star.Fully illustrated children picture book.Fun illustrations with the story of a young boy who nobody believe can

• UPC: 463872134

The Everything Kids' Baseball Book : From Baseball's History to Today's Favorite Players--With Lots of Home Run Fun in Between!

Play ball! From the backyard to the ballpark, The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 9th Edition captures all the action, fun, and excitement of America's favorite pastime! Sports reporter Greg Jacobs gives you all the know-how

• UPC: 48586416

The 50 Greatest Players in New York Yankees History

This book carefully examines the careers of the players who made the greatest impact on the most successful franchise in the history of professional sports. This ranking was determined based on factors such as: the

• UPC: 22332433
• Rating: 4.556

The 50 Greatest Players in St. Louis Cardinals History

This book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports. Features of The 50 Greatest Players in

• UPC: 43768031

The Bad Guys Won : A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--And Maybe the Best

Originally published in hardcover in 2004 by

• UPC: 16001001
• Rating: 5.0

Baseball's 100 - The Best Players in Baseball History - HC w/DJ 1982 - NEAR MINT

• UPC: 162154744241
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 19 USD

MAURY ALLEN BASEBALL'S 100 - RANKING BEST PLAYERS IN BASEBALL HISTORY

• UPC: 123512772950
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 10 USD

Baseball's 100 A Personal Ranking Of The Best Players in Baseball History

• UPC: 263097190342
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 15 USD

Baseball’s 100 : Personal Ranking of Best Players in Baseball History 1987 Allen

• UPC: 274223903450
• Category: School Textbooks & Study Guides
• Price: 12 USD

1985 Donruss #516 RUSTY KUNTZ - Best named Player in the history of the game!!

• UPC: 233454038384
• Category: Baseball Cards
• Price: 4 USD