Tag Archive: Baseball

Calling All Baseball Fans: Books to Read for Opening Day

Posted on April 1, 2021 9:00 am Published by hradmin

By The History Reader

Major League Baseball’s Opening Day has long been a symbol of rebirth for baseball fans, a day where the previous season’s slate is wiped clean as records reset to 0-0. From the first Opening Day on

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Wild Bill: Baseball “Player”

Posted on February 28, 2019 1:27 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Tom Clavin

With Major League Baseball emerging from its winter slumber, fans tend to acknowledge what anniversaries the new season brings us. The 2019 season is the centennial of the infamous Black Sox scandal, when gangsters fixed the outcome … Read the article

Ron Darling: Game 7, 1986

Posted on April 5, 2016 2:45 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner

Game 7, 1986: Be careful what you wish for

This book is not like other sports books. Certainly, it’s not like other books by former ballplayers. Athletes seem to want to write about the … Read the article

George Whiteman and the 1918 World Series

Posted on March 11, 2016 4:56 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Glenn Stout

George Whiteman: September 11, 1918

In the eighth inning of the sixth and final game of the 1918 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, with the Red Sox nursing a 2–1 lead … Read the article

The Cardinals Way: In the Spirit of Moneyball

Posted on February 17, 2016 8:45 pm Published by hradmin Leave your thoughts

by Howard Megdal

The Cardinals Way Prologue

In working on The Cardinals Way, spending days, weeks, and months with everyone in this organization from owner Bill DeWitt Jr. to current and former Cardinals John Mozeliak, Dan Kantrovitz, Jeff Luhnow, Sig … Read the article

Split Season: Baseball’s Epic Strike of 1981

Posted on May 19, 2015 3:09 pm Published by Alastair Hayes Leave your thoughts

by Jeff Katz

Those who think Major League Baseball is simply about the play on the field are too romantic and those who think it’s only about the business off the field are too cynical. The truth is somewhere in … Read the article

The Game Must Go On: The Great Days of Baseball During WWII

Posted on May 8, 2015 7:14 pm Published by Alastair Hayes Leave your thoughts

by John Klima

The war years have often been characterized as a void in time where nothing significant happened. In fact, the war years featured some great teams, great races, great players and great stories and sparked a transformation that … Read the article