Baseball Books

I bought the book for my cousin, he and myself love it. Is very easy to read and funny

Is baseball good? Truly a thought to siphen, nor weary and lasting is the prime thought. I'll concede Senor David Ortiz is great, but only if you stop waiving that violin in my face.

If you're a fan of baseball stories, then this is the book for you!! This is the greatest collection of fictional baseball stories I have ever read!! Morningstar is a genius when it comes to combining fact and fiction!!

If you are a fan of baseball, then you have to read this book! It's an excellent combination of history and fiction, while also utilizing humor, to create a very enjoyable book. I would highly recommend this to everyone!!

My only complaint about this book was that it was too short.

I waited too long. Brashler's book sent me back in time to the 1930s and let me enter the world of Negro League baseball, and the atmospheric writing transported me there thoroughly. I'm now going to rent the DVD, and hope it's half as good as the book.

I recommend this book to anyone who's a fan of baseball history.

there was never a dull moment reading this. inspired by countless tape recordings brashler made with cool papa bell and satchel paige, this books puts you into the lives of back baseball players in the 1930's as they travel through the midwest, often encountering prejudice, con-men, loneliness and self-doubt but sticking to their guns and rising about the drama. the language brashler uses to tell the tale makes it authentic and warm. a perfect companion to the movie...

This is an incredible book of historical significance, as former major league pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant profiles the thirteen African-Americans who won 20 or more games in Major League Baseball and ten pitchers from Negro Leagues Baseball who he feels would have achieved that feat in MLB.

Grant writes from a knowledge gained from his own experience in the pro game; he is the first African-American to reach the single-season milestone in the American League and win a World Series Game for an AL club, both achieved in 1965 with the Minnesota Twins.

The updated edition includes additional text and photos and a chronicle of Grant's visit to The White House, with Dontrelle Willis of the Detroit Tigers and former fire-balling aces, Mike Norris and Ferguson Jenkins.

The MLB season is in its opening weeks and dreams are still as fresh as the sod in the stadium outfields. Each of the pitchers in the book dreamed of diamond glory and will forever be remembered for their achievements due to Grant's meticulous work in bringing their stories to life.

This book covers both the African-American Major League pitchers who have won 20 or more games in a season (the "Black Aces": 13 of them to date) and African-American pitchers from the Negro Leagues who the author thinks would have been in the "Black Aces" group (eg Satchel Paige). The lead author is Jim "Mudcat" Grant, the first AL "Black Ace" and his own experiences along with his intimate knowledge of many of the other subjects lend great authenticity and charm to the book.
It is an historical celebration of great baseball players and a reflection of trying times. I am enjoying it greatly.

"From the archives of the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, New York, here are thirty fascinating photographs of the players of the so-called Negro leagues. From 1897 until 1945, when Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Black players were not allowed in the major leagues. So the Negro leagues were formed, with their own regional leagues that met in their own world series. This book of postcards is a lasting tribute to these legendary stars of baseball. 30 duotone photographs.

"Pomegranate's books of postcards contain thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Note: postcards are oversized and may require additional postage. ISBN: 0-87654-943-1; size: 4 3/4 x 6 7/8"."--© Pomegranate

This book contains the best research and information about the Negro Baseball Leagues. This book has very specific details that you won't find in any other book about the Negro Leagues or in matter of fact of baseball. I will not waste my time to write this if I doent think this is a good book. And it;s not good , its great marvulous amazing. Great for research. For reading. And last but not least enjoyment. I urgue you to buy it.

For twenty years, the East-West All-Star Game was a celebration of the outstanding achievements of some of the greatest baseball players ever, and so much more.

The idea of legendary Pittsburgh Crawfords owner Gus Greenlee to have a mid-season exhibition game quickly evolved into a major summer event - there was even fan voting for the starters in some years - with an atmosphere that I compare with college football's Bayou Classic.

Author Larry Lester takes articles, photographs, box scores, league records and other statistics mostly from the leading newspapers that served the black community to recreate the excitement and glory of the games. The book is also an excellent retrospective of the top media sources like the Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago Defender and Baltimore Afro-American.

At its peak, the game was one of the hottest tickets for any sporting event - though mostly ignored by the white press - where Jim Crow could not find a seat in the stadium. There was no prejudice or segregation; the contest was indicative of the openness found on the field, in the seats and within management of Negro Leagues Baseball.

The East-West All-Star Game was truly a showcase, on and off the field.

Bit by bit the obscure story of the legendary Negro Leaguers is being reconstructed, and books like this are playing a major role. Recounted here are all the East-West Games, the annual All-Star Games of the Negro Leagues, complete with boxscores, play-by-play, and contemporary newspaper coverage from the great African-American sportswriters & newspapers of the day. Finally those names from the dusty archives are being fleshed out into real players with recognizable skills. A superb reference. This is also a great companion volume to David Vincent's "The Midsummer Classic" about the (White) Major League All-Star Games, issued by the same publisher.

In "free" America, dads are imprisoned for being dads. Millions of bogus temporary orders of restraint are the uncooperative mother's finest tool of ruin. All Constitutional rights are ignored and routinely denied to fathers, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the presumption of innocence, due process, equal protection, and right to counsel. Child support is an autonomous industry run without state oversight or control - ask any Attorney General. The Feds actually pay the states to persecute fathers with matching funds.

For the millions of disenfranchised fathers who suffer two and a half times the psychological stress of the death of a spouse, divorce and its subsequent utter ruin at the hands of a jackbooted state makes life unbearable. Every 38 minutes another takes his own life - and another child goes through hell.

This American Gulag is occurring right in our own backyard. Every minute, every hour, every day.

This book is nearly in Solzhenetsyn's league - and that's the major league for works in this genere. The author novelizes his own experiences with the surreal "family" court system in my native Michigan - of which I am also a surviving father - and in doing so paints a picture vivid in its absurdity, banality, and vileness that an uninformed reader might associate more readily with the Soviet Union - hence the reason that the Gulag comes so quickly to mind.
Like our former adversary, we have psychiatric prisons, where the inconvienent and uncooperative are sent, drugged, and left incommunicado, when it suits the organs of state power to do so. This Dostoyeveski of American fatherhood writes what rings true - as I read, it was "deja vu, all over again" as my thoughts flashed back to my own experiences at the hands of those my taxes supposedly pay to protect the innocent.
The story is of a man who married badly, to what he calls a "human hand grenade," had children, and for their sakes, stayed, like a latter-day Hosea, with his wife of whoredoms to the bitter end, hostage to his loyalty to his children, and to a passion for a woman who utterly scorned and failed him. Like many a man who has beaten the odds in escaping the ghetto, the author bore wounds not visible to himself, but gapingly obvious to the "idiot savant" whose sole talent in life was an ability to play her intellectual superiors like a harp.
More than a page-turning story, this novelization of divorce purgatory, in which the protagonist's most exquisite pain is not for his own suffering, but for that of his children, this book is also an old-school conservative/libertarian indictment of F.D.R.'s Welfare State, in tones that remind this reader of Atlas Shrugged, as Mr. Green digresses to examine the cause of the troubles visited upon his family, which are only the symptoms of the Moocher State brought to its logical perfection. Welfare subsidizes the woman who wants to destroy her family for short-term gain, funds her sloth, and the producers are made to subsidize it all, minus the state's cut of the loot. (Mr. Green owns up to his share of the mistakes, including the cardinal one of marrying Sal, the anti-wife, but that in no way diminishes her guilt or that of her enablers.)
This book now rests on the same shelf as my copies of Stockdale, Sharansky, Denton, and the other confessors who have stood their ground against the last century's great killer of body and spirit - the Leviathan State. It belongs there, as the feminist-led assault on the traditional family is of one and the same character as those of the other corecive utopias that have blighted humanity within living memory. Could it happen here? It is already, and woe to the unfortunates who fall into its clutches! As Paul Craig Roberts once asked, in writing about another kind of judicial misconduct, will it produce a latter-day Count of Monte Cristo to fight it? It's a wonder that it has not already bred many worse than him among its' many victims.
-Lloyd A. Conway

The Boat is a short picture story, written & illustrated by Monique Felix.

*There is NO text!*

That's right! It's a picture book, but don't assume it's only for the preschool set. When words are missing, imagination has more freedom to develop. The drawings and problem solving aspects of the tale might inspire someone of any age.

I discovered Monique Felix about 20 years ago when I was reading to my two young daughters. They adored the clever little mouse and we would take turns "reading" the pages. I never got tired of reading those books - it was always a fresh story, and now one of my fondest memories. The girls have graduated college, are working adults, but still they ask about these books which brought us all such good times. (Mom won't give them up!)

The author's drawings are quite detailed as weather or seasons change. The mouse's expression of emotion varies on each page, as Monique Felix brings the little mouse to life. These are more or less "naturalistic" drawings. Cute, but not cutesy, cloying, or cartoon-like. They have a timelessness of style.

Caveat Emptor -YMV

Just as a side note:
I am reviewing an edition from a different publisher.
My edition of "The Boat" was actually called "The further adventures of the little mouse trapped in a book" c. 1983 and
what is sold here as "Wind", I have as "The story of a little mouse trapped in a book." c. 1980
Both were "A Star & Elephant Book from The Green Tiger Press"

This is a very lovely little book. It has no words, only beautifully-painted pictures. The little mouse scampers over a blank book and carefully chews away at the page, revealing the ocean underneath. He proceeds to make a little paper boat with the page and sails away to adventures on the high seas.

If you've ever wondered HOW Bostonians became the most passionate fans in the country, this explains it. It's amazing to think it just started with a few people in a bar. Just like any religion, it spread until it went worldwide. And that's where we are today.
This book is the only one out there that gives you that story. Thanks to Pete Nash! -- Andy Wasif, author Green Monster University: Creating Die-Hahd Fans Since 1901

Buy this book for one reason -- the author is Pete Nice. Dig it. 3rd Bass, y'all.

In my opinion, THE HOME RUN MYSTERY is the Best Boxcar Children book ever written! I won't spoil the book, but it's probably one of the most mysterious one ever. A+

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are taking another trip with their Grandfather, and you know what that means! Another mystery! This time they're involved in a baseball game, playing in a lot that has a story behind it, but time is running out. The lot may soon be changed into a parking lot! What happened to the legendary player Home Run Herman? And how is the opposite team winning the games? Can the Boxcar Children solve these mysteries before it's too late? Enjoy!