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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lyle spatz”
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  • Mike Donlin

    A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen

    by Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz ...
    Winner of the 2025 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research AwardWinner of the 2025 Larry Ritter Book AwardFinalist for the 2024 CASEY AwardMike Donlin was a brash, colorful, and complicated personality. He was the most popular athlete in New York and was a star on the powerful New York Giants teams of 1905 and 1908. Though haunted by tragedy, including the deaths of both of his parents as a boy, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Colonel and Hug

    The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees

    by Steve Steinberg, Lyle Spatz ...
    From the team’s inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap Til Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely partnership of the two figures began, one that set into motion ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Comeback Pitchers

    The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn

    by Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg ...
    2022 SABR Baseball Research AwardFinalist for the 2022 SABR Seymour MedalThe careers of pitchers Jack Quinn and Howard Ehmke began in the Deadball Era and peaked in the 1920s. They were teammates for many years, with both the cellar-dwelling Boston Red Sox and later with the world champion Philadelphia Athletics, managed by Connie Mack.As far back as 1912, when he was just twenty-nine, Quinn was ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • New York Yankees Openers

    An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-2017, 2d ed.

    by Lyle Spatz ...
    The New York Yankees are baseball's most storied team. They first played at Hilltop Park, then moved to the Polo Grounds, then Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium, back to the renovated Yankee Stadium, and now in the new Yankee Stadium.They also frequently opened the season in Boston's historic Fenway Park, fondly remembered Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Griffith Stadium in Washington, and all around the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Bad Bill Dahlen

    The Rollicking Life and Times of an Early Baseball Star

    by Lyle Spatz ...
    He was often nonchalant and unfocused, showing up minutes before a game. He was rumored to get himself ejected so he could get to the racetrack. He was feisty, and abusive towards umpires even by today's standards. And he's among the best shortstops ever to play the game. "Bad Bill" Dahlen retired having played in more games than anyone in major league history; he was in the top ten for walks, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Bridging Two Dynasties

    The 1947 New York Yankees

    by Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) ...
    Series series Memorable Teams in Baseball History
    Of all the New York Yankees championship teams, the 1947 club seemed the least likely. Bridging the gap between the dynasties of Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel, the team, managed by Bucky Harris, was coming off three non-pennant-winning seasons and given little chance to unseat the defending American League champion Boston Red Sox. And yet, led by Joe DiMaggio, this un-Yankees-like squad of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Willie Keeler

    From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame

    by Lyle Spatz ...
    Playing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Willie Keeler is still considered one of baseball’s most accomplished batters in the history of the game. Wee Willie’s popular “Hit ‘em where they ain’t” explanation for his batting success has become part of baseball lore. He is known for his quick-thinking at the plate and for his record-setting forty-four-game hitting streak in 1897 ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Hugh Casey

    The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger

    by Lyle Spatz ...
    Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s, a team that took part in four great pennant races, the first National League playoff series, and two exciting World Series over the course of Casey’s career. That famed team included many outsized personalities, including executives Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey, manager Leo Durocher, and players like ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Baseball

    by Lyle Spatz ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Sports
    Dating back to 1869 as an organized professional sport, the game of baseball is not only the oldest professional sport in North America, but also symbolizes much more. Walt Whitman described it as “our game, the American game,” and George Will compared calling baseball “just a game” to the Grand Canyon being “just a hole.” Countless others have called baseball “the most elegant game,” and to those ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    by Daniel Okrent, Steve Wulf ...
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  • The Pitch That Killed

    by Mike Sowell ...
    On a torridly hot August day in 1920, Ray Chapman was struck and killed by a Carl Mays fastball, in what was and remains the only on-the-field fatality in the history of major league baseball. The drama of Good Guy Chapman versus Bad Guy Mays is a wrenching human tale. Add to it an intense pennant race, the meteoric ascension of Babe Ruth to baseball supremacy, the banning of the Black Sox for ... Read more

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  • Fenway Park

    A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America

    by John Powers, Ron Driscoll ...
    A centennial celebration of the Boston Red Sox's home stadium and the city's historical landmark.Fenway Park evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a city's identity than any stadium or arena in the country. The park's instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history, including Carlton Fisk's "Is it fair?" home run in the ... Read more

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