Materia Béisbol

La gran novela americana

Roth, Philip

Por primera vez en castellano, se publica la que quizá sea la novela más hilarante de uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En esta procaz e imaginativa novela, Philip Roth convierte la condición del béisbol como mito y pasatiempo nacional en una ocasión...

Conocer el Deporte. BÉISBOL

Fernández, Luis Manuel/Pariente, Ángel

Guía de los principios técnicos y las reglas oficiales del béisbol. Incluye: equipamiento e indumentaria, terreno de juego, el partido, jugadas y reglas básicas, arbitraje, anotación, glosario, etc.

One Pitch Away

Sowell, Mike

Bill Buckner’s boot to end Game 6 of the 1986 World Series is one of baseball’s most memorable plays. But that gargantuan gaffe and the Mets’ miracle comeback against the Red Sox have come to overshadow what may very well be the most dramatic and exciting League Championships and W...

El sueño y la realidad

Francys Romero

«Yo recuerdo a los hombres en el momento mejor de su caída», dice un verso del poeta Emilio García Montiel. Justo esa divisa rige El sueño y la realidad, un ejercicio virtuoso de reconstrucción histórica, documental y afectiva que presenta de modo minuc...

Intangibles

Miller, Geoff

Una lectura obligatoria para todos los peloteros, entrenadores y fanáticos Geoff Miller, entrenador mental, ha dedicado años a ayudar a peloteros profesionales a mejorar su fuerza mental - tanto fuera como dentro del terreno. Ahora ofrece estas valiosas lecciones para todo el mundo qu...

BUSHVILLE WINS!

KLIMA, JOHN

BROOKS

WILSON, DOUG

Babe Ruth & the 1927 Yankees have the Best Summer Ever

Braund, W. G.

It?s the best time ever in America. The booze is flowing, the flappers are frisky, and anybody can make a killing on the market. Things look bad for the Yankees though. Ahead by ten games with a month to go in ?26 they limped to the finish line and won by two. Their top four pitchers won just six of...

Independence, Mantle and Miss Able

Sumner, Jan / Zelinger, Nick

Independence, Mantle, and Miss Able is the extraordinary history of the small town of Independence, Kansas nestled in the southeastern corner of the Sunflower state.    The first night baseball game in the history of Organized Baseball was played in Independence on April 28,1930.  Mi...

Baseball's Untold History

Lynch, Michael

Seamheads' Mike Lynch turns his keen eye for the amazing and unusual to baseball's biggest stage, the World Series, in Volume II of his acclaimed Baseball's Untold History Series. Read about the least likely heroes, biggest MVP flops, the oddest World Series stat lines, and an all-time O-fer line-...

The Suitors of Spring

Jordan, Pat

Few writers know more about pitching, and few pitchers know more about writing than Pat Jordan. Suitors of Spring is a collection of eight of Jordan's essays about pitchers and pitching, originally published in Sports Illustrated. From the cultivated genius of Tom Seaver, to the irresistible wisdo...

Baseball History

McCloud, Ace

Would you love to know the incredible and exciting history of baseball?Whether you want to (1) learn incredible and interesting facts about baseball history, (2) discover some of baseball’s greatest events and stories, or (3) be thoroughly entertained as you learn how baseball has evolved over...