Baseball & Softball

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan tells the story of baseball in America, from its rough-and-tumble origins through the first decades of the twentieth century and into the pivotal summer of 1933—when national crisis and a sport’s fight for survival converged in baseball’s first...

Legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker reflects on his extraordinary career—filled with invaluable lessons on perseverance, leadership, and living life meaningfully on the field and off. Dusty Baker walked with baseball legends and became one himself. After he signed with the Braves...

This is the story of baseball’s rich magical history and the centuries-old culture of superstition in the sport. It is a love letter to the jinxes, curses, rituals and myths of baseball’s past and present―and to the innate mysticism of the game.

A Father's Quiet Legacy of Baseball, Blood, and Endurance by Walter A. Beede is a deeply moving memoir that traces one man's journey from childhood fracture to fatherhood, shaped by the steadfast, unspoken presence of his own father. Walter grew up in the blue-collar neighborhoods of Lynn and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The house feels emptier, the winters sharper. What remains is Freddy Beede, factory worker, coach, and quiet architect of a life built on showing up. With callused hands and dry humor, Freddy never lectures; he simply models discipline, sacrifice, and endurance.

Historian John Ferling delves into baseball in the fascinating dozen years following World War II, when baseball ruled as the national pastime, and the names of the game's principal stars were known even by those who weren't fans of the sport. Major league baseball integration in 1947 also...