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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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:...

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...

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

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 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...

The spectacular rise and terrible fall of Tony Conigliaro is one of the most compelling stories in all of sport. Boyhood star, home run record setter, pop star singer and heart throb, playboy,...

Author: Bill NowlinPublisher: Summer Game BooksPublication Date: May 27, 2020Number of Pages: 308 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1938545605ISBN-13: 9781938545603