Lists the best pitchers of all time, briefly sketches each player's career, and summarizes their most notable accomplishments

100 Greatest Pitchers

Kelley, Brent P.

Biographies & Memoirs

Crescent

The question of which pitcher throws the hardest has been one of the most hotly debated questions in all of sports. For the first time, we now have the missing data required to allow us finally reveal the fastest pitchers ever recorded.

Barnes&Noble Books

The New York Yankees have won more league titles and World Series championships than any other franchise, thanks in large part to Hall of Famers such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. But stars alone have not made the Yankees the greatest of franchises, though. Little or nothing until now has been written about the supporting casts that helped the Yankees dominate baseball. Lou Clinton, Rip Coleman, Russ Derry, Charlie Devens, Ryne Duren, Allen Gettel, Steve Hamilton, Billy Hunter, Deron Johnson, Don Johnson, "Little Ray" Kelly, Cliff Mapes, Bob Martyn, Lindy McDaniel, Irv Noren, Duane Pillette, Bill Renna, Steve Souchock, Bob Turley, and Dooley Womack tell their New York stories. Teammates of Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle talk about their playing days and the men with whom they played. This is Yankee history from the early 1920s into the 1970s, by the men who made it.

They Too Wore Pinstripes: Interviews With 20 Glory-Days New York Yankees

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

McFarland Publishing

Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations with 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960

Baseball lore is replete with the tales of such legendary Negro League stars as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson and a few others. But the stories of the many other African Americans, both stars and journeymen, have largely been forgotten. These were the men who barnstormed the country, playing in loosely organized leagues and eking out a living doing what they did best, playing baseball. In this work, 52 players reminisce about what it was like to play in the Negro Leagues, from the great teams and players to the terrible Jim Crow conditions they faced in the South. Now in their sixties, seventies and eighties, these men reflect on their careers with humor, bluntness, and poignancy, providing a rich record of a part of the game that is quickly being lost to history.

Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations With 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960

This is a followup volume to the acclaimed ("wonderful book"-Booklist/RBB; "a solid contribution"-MultiCultural Review) Voices from the Negro Leagues, which featured interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s. Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big Train Dudley, Mex Johnson, Buck O'Neil, Herbert Barnhill, Bernard Fernandez, Dick Powell, Jimmy Barnes, Charlie Biot, Monk Favors, Alton King, Buster Haywood, Casey Jones, Hickey Redd, Tommy Sampson, John Gibbons, Schoolboy Gulley, Schoolboy Kimbrough, Briefcase Simpson, Doc Dennis, Ralph Johnson, Lefty LaMarque, Junior Miller, Tex Williams, Baby Face Peatros, Big Jim McCurine, Eddie Williams, Zipper Zapp, Billy Fender, Dave Pope, Bill Powell, Marvin Price, Bob Scott, Dirk Gibbons, Hoss Ritchey, Lefty Bo Maddix, Hank Presswood, Mickey Stubblefield, Josh Gibson, Jr., Bobo Henderson, Fancy Dan Porter, Jumpin Johnny Wilson, Quack Brown, Granny Gladstone, Hoppy Hopkins, Carl Long, Jim Robinson, Juan Armenteros, Peanut Johnson, Eddie Reed, Ricky Maroto, Peachhead Mitchell, Ted Rasberry, Pedro Sierra, Jim Cobbin, Dick Scruggs, Sonny Webb and Tommy Taylor. Rare personal photographs and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.

The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations With 66 More Baseball Heroes

The San Francisco Seals were members of baseball's Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1958. Arguably the most successful minor league franchise ever, the Seals held the minor league attendance record from 1946 until it was broken by Louisville in the 1980s, and remained independently owned until 1956. The Seals were also Joe DiMaggio's first team and many another major league star was on the team's roster on his climb up the ranks. This work is a collection of oral histories of players who took the field for the Seals from 1946 through 1957, just before the Giants came to San Francisco and when the Seals played their final game. Ferris Fain said of the 1946 Seals, "I just think that that was the best ballclub that I've ever played on, including major league. I mean, as a team." Frank Seward, Don Trower, Jack Brewer, Roy Nicely, Neill Sheridan, Joe Brovia, Bill Werle, Con Dempsey, Dario Lodigiani, Lou Burdette, Ed Cereghino, Bill Bradford, Reno Cheso, Nini Tornay, Jerry Zuvela, Leo Righetti, Jim Westlake, Ted Beard, Chuck Stevens, Bob DiPietro, Don Lenhardt, Riverboat Smith, Jack Spring, and Bert Thiel also reminisce about their careers with the Seals.

The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957: Interviews with 25 Former Baseballers

History

Americas

McFarland

This book continues the riches of two highly praised previous volumes, Voices from the Negro Leagues "interesting...solid"--MultiCultural Review and The Negro Leagues Revisited "wonderful"--Booklist/RBB; "voluminous...top-notch"--Public Library Quarterly). The players interviewed in this new book of interviews are Bill Bethea, John "Scoop" Brown, Paul Casanova, Jim Colzie, Bunny Davis, Ross Davis, Clifford DuBose, Lionel Evelyn, Hubert Glenn, Herald "Beebop" Gordon, Raymond Haggins, J.C. Hartman, Joe Henry, Carl Holden, Vernell Jackson, Clarence Jenkins, Ernest Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Marvin Jones, Ezell King, Willie Lee, Larry LeGrande, William Little, Nathaniel McClinic, John Mitchell, Grady Montgomery, Bob Motley, Charley Pride, Mack Pride, Bill "Sonny" Randall, Henry Saverson, Eugene Scruggs, Willie Sheelor, Sam Taylor, Ron Teasley, James Way, Sam Williams, Walter Williams, and Willie Young. Photographs of the players and their teammates and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.

I Will Never Forget: Interviews With 39 Former Negro League Players

A biography of the determined star of the University of Utah basketball team who became one of the top rookies in the NBA in 1998

Keith Van Horn (Basketball Legends)

Children's Books

Biographies

Chelsea House Pub

Lisa Leslie (Women Who Win)

Presents a biography of the star player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association.

James Monroe: American Statesman (Revolutionary War Leaders)

Profiles the Revolutionary War soldier who became the fifth president of the United States, discussing his political career, influence as president, and the impact of the Monroe Doctrine in modern diplomacy.

SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR MEIER

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100 Greatest Pitchers

100 Greatest Pitchers

They Too Wore Pinstripes: Interviews With 20 Glory-Days New York Yankees

Voices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations With 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960

The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations With 66 More Baseball Heroes

The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957: Interviews with 25 Former Baseballers

I Will Never Forget: Interviews With 39 Former Negro League Players

Keith Van Horn (Basketball Legends)

Lisa Leslie (Women Who Win)

James Monroe: American Statesman (Revolutionary War Leaders)