Summer Game Books

Editor-photographer Randy Cox literally had a front-row seat to history when he covered the Braves' 1974 home opener and his hero Henry Aaron belted career home run #715. Pull up alongside Randy in...

An anthology of nine touching and funny stories by the editor of Spitball Magazine, and author of 16 baseball books. The book is filled with characters from all walks of life, all of whom are...

Amazing Phillies Feats: The Greatest Player Performances In Philadelphia Phillies HistoryAuthor: Rich WestcottPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: July 08, 2021Number of Pages: 216...

Baseball was rocked in the winter of 1926 when one-time star pitcher and all-time trouble maker Dutch Leonard produced letters implicating Baseball Gods Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker in a game-fixing...

Seamheads' Mike Lynch turns his keen eye for the amazing and unusual to baseball's biggest stage, the World Series, in Volume II of his acclaimed Baseball's Untold History Series. Read about the...

Go deep inside the game with Seamheads.com founder and SABR stalwart Mike Lynch. Amazing stories about the players, managers, and owners that will educate and fascinate even the most ardent students...

Author: Ammie NursePublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: Dec 22, 2020Number of Pages: 290 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938545753ISBN-13: 9781938545757

Longtime diehard Red Sox fans did just that-DIE HARD-almost too many times to count over the decades until they finally won the World Series in 2004 after an incredible postseason run. Red Sox...

Boots Poffenberger spent only parts of three seasons in the major leagues, but is unquestionably among the wildest figures of his era--one that included Dizzy Dean, Bobo Newsom, and Van Lingle Mungo...

Third generation ballplayer Jim Campanis, Jr. shares stories from his life as part of one of baseball's most prominent families - from batboy to All American at USC, to promising minor leaguer, to...

Dreaming .400Author: Steve MyersPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: Sep 17, 2015Number of Pages: 182 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1938545648ISBN-13: 9781938545641

Author: David RussellPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: Aug 28, 2020Number of Pages: 358 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938545982ISBN-13: 9781938545986

Who is Fari Madrigal? Only the first female player in the history of the major leagues. Fari is a mystical girl from the Dominican Republic whose beauty is exceeded only by the hop on her fastball...

Leroy "Satchel" Paige was a man of many words--boastful, brash, bitter, wise. Maybe I'll Pitch Forever is Paige's story in his own words. It is unadulterated Satchel, as pure as knee-high smoke over...

Statistics and stories about more than 400 players from the 1960's baseball era.Author: Thad MumauPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: Jun 15, 2018Number of Pages: 226 pagesLanguage:...

When Tobey Shiverick turned 78, he gave himself the gift of fulfilling a lifelong dream: To see a ballgame at every major league stadium in one season. Five months, 34,000 miles, a cycle and a steal...

The history of baseball in Nashville stretches back over 130 years, as home to great minor league teams, a Negro Leagues hub, and host of star-studded exhibitions that involved some of the greatest...

The excitement and drama of the 1986 post season are unsurpassed in the history of baseball. First the Red Sox overcame a 3-1 deficit to defeat the Angels, while it took the Mets 16 innings to...

Sol White was a standout player and manager in the early years of professional African American baseball. In 1907, he wrote and published the first and only account of the stars, teams, and great...

Author: Gabriel SchechterPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: Jul 20, 2020Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938545966ISBN-13: 9781938545962

For the frustrated runner there is another way to race. By focusing on what others overlook, you can get back to enjoying your races. With this clear, concise dose of reality, you can format the...

By the time "The Brawl Heard 'Round the World" blew up baseball on a hot Sunday in 1953, young Dell Franklin had been a regular in Pacific Coast League clubhouses for three years. His father, former...

The Forever Boys is the funny, heartbreaking, authentic story of the men who played in the short-lived Senior Professional Baseball Association. Best-selling author Peter Golenbock spent the season...

The Global Baseball ClassroomAuthor: Brent LoehrPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: May 12, 2015Number of Pages: 194 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1938545621ISBN-13:...

Casey Stengel is unquestionably one of the great characters and showmen in the history of baseball. What is less well known about him is he was also one of the greatest strategists and managers the...

The most intimate, insightful, and fun history ever written about the Impossible Dream Team, when Red Sox Nation was born. Take a warm trip back to 1967 and visit with Yaz, Conig, Lonnie, Boomer,...

Bill Nowlin, author of six previous books on Ted Williams, provides an intimate look at all 110 game-deciding home runs hit by The Kid. Essays are packed with quotes, stats, stories, and Williams...

Universally regarded as one of the best baseball books ever, the Summer Game Books edition has a new foreword by the author and is being released ahead of the upcoming major film, War on the Diamond...

When Babe Ragland makes the hapless Boston Red Sox in a Spring Training tryout, he becomes baseball's "seventh Babe." He soon establishes himself as an acrobatic third baseman, and his rookie fright...

Few writers know more about pitching, and few pitchers know more about writing than Pat Jordan. Suitors of Spring is a collection of eight of Jordan's essays about pitchers and pitching, originally...