Baseball Books

This is a great book for any Cleveland Indians fan! I just Wish Lindy Powers would do more books on other sports teams as well! Would love to see some hockey teams do a book like this. Really awesome shots of the players and their families.

This is a great addition to any baseball fans library. Just wish there were more teams that would put out a book like this.

A Coach's Letter to His Son is a short book. I read it in one sitting but I found that its simple yet powerful message resonated with me for the remainder of the day.

Reading this book brought back memories of playing pick-up baseball at my local park, perhaps the most enjoyable time of my youth. Allen's story captures the loss of that simple joy for the game that so many kids experience when they are exposed to overzealous coaches and parents who make baseball too much about winning and not enough about having fun.

The longing to recapture the pure joy of the game of baseball is what makes A Coach's Letter to His Son such a meaningful book.

Beautifully illustrated by John Thompson, A Coach's Letter to His Son is a must-read for parents, players and coaches alike.

This book is an elegant and beautiful account of an experience so common in modern America. Childhood sports are no longer, sadly, about the kids. They are about winning, and nothing else. No longer are kids allowed to experience the game for what it really means, rather they are forced by their parents and coaches to care only about being better than others. This sort of enviroment contributes nothing to children, it only damages their capacity for enjoyment. This book gets at the core of the meaning of baseball and shows that just because the major leagues are a job, doesn't mean that little league has to also be corrupted. Reading this book made me take a step back and see that childhood sports need to be returned to their origin, an origin that was pure; sports used to be about fun, why can they no longer be?

An essential read for coaches of kids or parents, you will thank yourself for reading this book and hopefully realize the beauty of the game once again.

Thomas Owens' Collecting Baseball Cards (1708-2) provides a primer on collecting, with color photos of cards and players supplementing the basics on how to start and value a collection.

It would be a shame to limit Thomas Owens' Collecting Baseball Cards to the young audience it was written for: many an adult collector will find this the perfect introduction to baseball cards, using easy language to explain how the cards are graded and what determines their value. Color photos throughout display vintage cards.

This is where it all began for one of baseballs teams going from worst to first.All the behind the scene photos,as well of information of that first season.A must read for the serious Rockies fan.

All devoted Colorado baseball fans should purchase this book and pass it down to future generations of Rockies fans. Looking through this book brings back all the wonderful memories from that magical first season of Major League Baseball in Colorado.

This book is the best baseball book!! It helped me be a better catcer, and in general a better player over all. I highly recomend this book to ANYONE who has even the slightest intrest in playing baseball. So if anyone out there thinking about buying this book... Stop trying to decide and do it!! you won't be sorry

I read this whole book in one day and I really learned a lot from it. I wanted to become better at pitching and batting and this book has helped me to achieve this. I have seen a significant improvement in the way I play the game. It is a must for any serious baseball player.

"Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig" is that rare treasure of a sports book that takes the reader on a compelling historical journey through time, while simultaneously posing thought-provoking questions concerning the future.

The volume illustrates the different ways in which each person holding that office has approached his mandate to advance and protect the best interests of the national pastime...and the challenges that the Commissioner of Baseball faces today and into the future.

For those who love the game of baseball, enjoy its history and care about its future, this book offers a wonderful, thought-provoking read.

As its title and subtitle suggest, this book is a history of baseball's office of the commissioner, and contains many fascinating details (both familiar and little-known). Yet it's more than that: It's a meditation on the social and personal factors involved in the challenging effort to preserve a professional sport's moral compass.
Best of all, Mr. Moffi writes with an elegant informality on behalf of us long-suffering yet ever loyal fans. Reading "Conscience of the Game" is like drinking a beer and talking baseball into the wee hours with a thoughtful, humorous, and impassioned friend.
Also highly recommended: two of Mr. Moffi's other books ("Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959" and "This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s"), as well as his volumes of poetry ("A Citizen's Handbook" and "A Simple Progession").

I have followed baseball for nearly 50 years and still learned some things about the game. All the basics are covered and she makes it such fun to read!

Finally a sports reference book written for a woman's sense of humor! A must read for all "cool chicks" that want to more out of baseball games than just bad hotdogs!

Just an amazing, soothing, great summer read. A brilliant plot, and suspenseful until the last few pages. The book moves slowly, and peacefully at first, like the summer itself, and then, like a funnel, sucks you in. Powerful and brilliant.

MH Levine is one of the finest, most original voices in American literature today, as he once again proves with characteristic flair and scathing elan in his latest work, The Cooperstown Murders. Destined for legend or infamy, this author and his work should not be missed.

This book is a good addition to the Curious George collection. It is great to see an entirely new book for this series

Published in 2006, this 24-page book tells the story of Curious George going to a baseball game. The Man With the Yellow Hat happens to be friends with the head coach of the Mudville Miners and arranged for them to watch the game from the dug out.

George sees the coach sending hand signals to the runner on second base--and thinks this is a new way to cheer on the Miners. So he begans to wave his arms--but his gestures distract the runner and he gets tagged out. Needless to say, those in the dugout are angry at George!

So George and TMWTYH watch the rest of the game in the stands. George notices a camerawoman roving through the crowds--and was excited to see people around him appear on the large screen in the stadium! So he tries to climb on the camera and ends up angering the camerawoman. But the good news is that his antics help reunite a lost boy with his father!

This past weekend we visited a bookstore and my son wanted not one, but SEVEN Curious George books to add to his collection (he already had several at home). Written by Laura Driscoll and illustrated in the style of H.A. Rey by Anna Grossnickle Hines, Curious George at the Baseball Game was one of the books we bought at the store.

This engaging tale--one of the best in the CG series--is geared towards ages 4-8, so it's a good book for beginner/intermediate readers. It's also makes a great bedtime story!

In addition, Curious George at the Baseball Game contains two Bonus Activities: The inside of the back cover has two black and white illustrations for a Spot the Difference activity (I loved those as a kid!). There is also a circular maze on the back cover; George must get through the maze to find his baseball cap and ball.

I got this book shortly after it came out in 1991 and have enjoyed through numerous re-readings since. It covers the Yankees from the time George Steinbrenner bought the team in the early '70s to 1990, when Steinbrenner was banned "for life," by which time he had made the franchise a laughingstock. Moss Klein and Bill Madden were two of the many beat writers to cover the Yankees during that time and tell some neat stories from the inside. The book has a chapter on each manager under Steinbrenner (the Billy Martin, chapter is, of course, the most interesting), and also writes about the stars of the Yankees, as well as some of the lesser-known players who still made things interesting. Klein and Madden not only tell of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) stories of the team, but also tell some from the point of view of the writers, showing how out-of-the-ordinary it was to cover this particular team. Non-Yankee fans will probably enjoy reading how this proud franchise was reduced (however briefly) to a second-divison club, while Yankee fans can relive a lot of the interesting stories and, looking back, can breath a sigh of relief that a meddlesome owner has seen the error of his ways and has let the people he hired just do their job and bring the team newfound success.

I got this book shortly after it came out in 1991 and have enjoyed through numerous re-readings since. It covers the Yankees from the time George Steinbrenner bought the team in the early '70s to 1990, when Steinbrenner was banned "for life," by which time he had made the franchise a laughingstock. Moss Klein and Bill Madden were two of the many beat writers to cover the Yankees during that time and tell some neat stories from the inside. The book has a chapter on each manager under Steinbrenner (the Billy Martin, chapter is, of course, the most interesting), and also writes about the stars of the Yankees, as well as some of the lesser-known players who still made things interesting. Klein and Madden not only tell of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) stories of the team, but also tell some from the point of view of the writers, showing how out-of-the-ordinary it was to cover this particular team. Non-Yankee fans will probably enjoy reading how this proud franchise was reduced (however briefly) to a second-divison club, while Yankee fans can relive a lot of the interesting stories and, looking back, can breath a sigh of relief that a meddlesome owner has seen the error of his ways and has let the people he hired just do their job and bring the team newfound success.