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Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

Baseball's Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there...

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history....

Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought to the game....

なぜ力を出しきれないのか!?「試合で自分の力が出せなかった」「スランプに陥った」などを克服する、メンタル強化の必読書。目次…第1章 トップ選手たちのメンタルトレーニング(投手・木田優夫・デトロイトタイガース;投手・牛島和彦・解説者;投手・高橋薫・千葉ロッテマリーンズ ほか);第2章 イメージトレーニング入門(イメージトレーニングで技術を高める;緊張をイメージトレーニングによって緩和する;制球力をア

Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball.....

Learn the inspiring story of the Seattle Mariners' Legendary outfielder Ichiro Suzuki! In Ichiro Suzuki: The Inspiring Story of One of Baseball’s Greatest Outfielders, you will learn the story of one of baseball's greatest outfielders, Ichiro Suzuki....

The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R. A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues....

At forty-four years old, Tim Wakefield is the longest-serving member of one of baseball’s most popular franchises....

From baseball's Joe DiMaggio to NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt, Speeches by Great Hall of Famers is a collection of more than 50 inspiring speeches by some of the greatest athletes....

■抱腹絶倒の阪神ネタ、怒涛の33連発！ 全国の阪神ファンの皆さん、 お待たせしました！ 伝説の虎番記者が書いた 「阪神タイガースあるある本」がついに登場です！ 著者の楊枝秀基さんは、 阪神ファンの方ならご存じかと思いますが、 【元「デイリー・スポーツ」伝説のトラ番記者】として有名な方で、 現在スポーツライターとして活躍されています。 ■記者時代は、 赤星、桧山、今岡

An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games - with a 41 percent return in his first year....

An homage to one of the great baseball players of our era, Baseball Is Just Baseball is a wide-ranging selection of Ichiro’s most startling and provocative observations....

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was old school and stubborn. But after 20 straight losing seasons and his job on the line, he was ready to try anything....

Ted Williams was arguably the greatest pure hitter who ever lived. A lifelong student of hitting, he sought advice from every great hitter - and pitcher - he met. Drawing on that advice, as well as his own legendary life in baseball, Williams produced this all-time batting classic....

"I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story..."

Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports....

With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game....

Shizuka Ijuin, profiles the beloved New York Yankee–a world-class athlete who exemplifies a quality that Ijuin believes is central to success and well-being: modesty....

From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than 300 people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today....

In 2007, pitcher Barry Zito signed a seven-year, $126 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. At that time, it was the largest contract ever given to a pitcher. He was at the top of his game, in peak physical condition....

From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry....

Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules....

Written with years of access to the team’s stars and executives, Astroball is the story of the next wave of thinking in baseball and beyond, at once a remarkable underdog story and a fascinating look at the cutting edge of evaluating and optimizing human potential....

The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades....

Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball. In this smart, incisive, and eye-opening book, Keith Law applies Kahneman’s ideas about decision making to the game itself....

In State of Play, Major League veteran, Emmy Award-winning MLB Network analyst, and author Bill Ripken breaks down these modern statistical methods to explain which ones make sense in the game's historical context, bringing them together with proven old-school strategies....