Amos Otis, Frank White, George Brett, Hal McRae, Dan Quisenberry, Bret Saberhagen, Paul Splittorffone mention of any of those names can bring about visions of great baseball, determination, and winning. However, one vision outweighs all others: the boys in blue . . . the Kansas City Royals.The Kansas City Royals, an expansion club in the American League in …
The St. Louis Cardinals are one of baseball’s most storied franchises, and as much a part of St. Louis as Anheuser-Busch and the arch. From Lou Brock to Matt Carpenter, Ozzie Smith to Yadier Molina, Bob Gibson to Adam Wainwright, from Hall of Famers to rookie busts, the Cardinals are beloved in St. Louis. In this book, Stan …
2016 Baseball Forecaster: & Encyclopedia of Fanalytics (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster)
For 30 years, the very best in baseball prediction and statistics The industry’s longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2016 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the …
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team?It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies — with real players, in a real ballpark, playing in real time. That’s what Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when the Sonoma …
The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter’s iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.Derek Jeter’s twentieth and final season in Major League Baseball truly marks the end of a sports era. The New York Yankees’ shortstop—a five-time World Series victor, …
Celebrate the 2015 World Series champions with the official publication from Major League Baseball!2015 World Series Champions takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers fans not only …
The essential guide to the 2016 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you’re a fan or fantasy player―or both―you won’t be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2016 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and …
The Hardball Times Annual 2016 is the ultimate baseball annual…the “MVP of baseball annuals.” Now in its 12th year, this year’s edition contains more than 30 articles from some of the best-known writers in baseball today, such as… Dave Cameron Jeff Sullivan Mitchel Lichtman Carson Cistulli Eno Sarris Erik Malinowksi Kiley McDaniel …and many other great …
Pitch by Pitch gets inside the head of Bob Gibson on October 2, 1968, when he took the mound for game one of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers and struck out a record seventeen batters. With the tension rising in the stadium, an uproarious crowd behind him, and the record for the most strikeouts thrown in …
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell–“organized baseball’s first girl pitcher.” On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field …