42 Is Not Just a Number

Doreen Rappaport

Baseball, basketball, football — no matter the game, Jackie Robinson excelled. His talents would have easily landed another man a career in pro sports, but such opportunities were closed to athletes like Jackie for one obvious reason.

Banana Ball

Jesse Cole

The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story.

Charlie Hustle

Keith O'Brien

Baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century.

Game of Edges

Bruce Schoenfeld

Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around.

Josh Gibson

Mark Ribowsky

It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in a season. All agreed he was a frightening hitter to face.

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

A's' GM Billy Beane and his amateur baseball theorists try to revolutionize the sport.

Only the Ball Was White

Robert Peterson

Exposing the unofficial boundary that prevented hundreds of superstars from playing big-league baseball.

Oscar Charleston

Jeremy Beer

Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history.

Picturing America's Pastime

National Baseball HoF

A collection of rarely-seen photos that reveals the full landscape of our national pastime as no other collection can.

Shades of Glory

Lawrence Hogan

This comprehensive historical recollection combines vivid narrative, visual impact, and a unique statistical component, to preserve the Negro Leagues.

Sho-Time

Jeff Fletcher

The story behind Shohei Ohtani’s legendary MVP season as baseball’s greatest two-way player.

The Big Fella

Jane Leavy

The definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."

The Bona Fide Legend

Lonnie Wheeler

Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, and in St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses.

Vin Scully

LA Daily News

A legend early in his prestigious career, Scully was a trusted companion to countless baseball fans across generations.

When Baseball Went to War

Bill Nowlin

Compelling stories of ballplayers such as Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and Johnny Pesky who answered their nation's call to serve their country.

Willie Mays Five Tools

Bill Nowlin

Five Tools tells the story of arguably the greatest baseball player in the game’s history, through more than 20 insightful essays and recaps of over 30 of the most significant games in his career.

YADI

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Yadi features 144 pages of award-winning reporting, vivid storytelling, dramatic photographs, and exclusive coverage.

¡Arriba!

Bill Nowlin

The first universally acknowledged Latino inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Clemente played every one of his 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates.