Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises
To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to l
?We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, ?or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we im
Nine new essays explore issues of ethnicity and race in baseball, discussing the role of blacks, Italians, Slavs, Irish, and Germans in this most American game. Simultaneous.
Chronicles the life and career of the largely forgotten former baseball legend who inspired the creation of Roy Hobbes, the hero of Bernard Malamud's baseball novel, "The Natural."
