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Take me out to the ball game with Crabtree's new book Baseball in Action. Children will learn the rules and skills involved in playing. Lively, full-color photographs help demonstrate such basics as pitching, fouling, and bunting. Necessary equipment and safety precautions are also covered along with: -- the layout of a baseball diamond and player positions -- catching and throwing techniques -- when to run and when to stay put -- different variations of baseball from slow pitch to cricket

UPC: 633000000000Minting a coin of a historical monument conserves it's legacy forever! That being said the Highland Mint received special approval to mint this unique 24KT Gold plate SHEA STADIUM GOLD Coin! The 24KT Gold plated Commemorative Coin is struck to highest standards in minting tradition depicting the stadiums slightest detail. The date on the coin is the date of it's 1st ever game played. The back of the Coin is struck with the teams logo and the franchises established date. Each coin is protected by an acrylic capsule to preserve it's mint condition and presented in a black velour jewelry box for display or protection. As well each coin is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. This unique collectible is a Limited Mintage of only 5000 and Officially Licensed by Major League Baseball.

BEHIND THE NUMBERS OF BASEBALL S PREMIER FRANCHISEThroughout their illustrious history, the New York Yankees have amassed some of the most hallowed records in baseball history. The team s 27 World Series titles. Roger Maris 61 home runs. Joe Dimaggio s 56-game hitting streak. But what makes the Yankees the world s most celebrated sports franchise goes beyond sheer numbers: it is the men behind the records that have thrilled and enchanted New York fans since 1903.The Ultimate Yankees Record Book features every relevant team record, statistic, and award winner from the Bronx Bombers incredible past. Author David Fischer has compiled a comprehensive collection of the Yankees all-time leaders in every conceivable category, from hits leaders to strikeout kings, many of which cannot be found anywhere else. And, much like the team itself, The Ultimate Yankees Record Book is about far more than just statistics; in-depth player profiles, historical game details, and action photographs bring the greatest achievements of history greatest Yankees to life.The Ultimate Yankees Record Book is much more than just an exhaustive statistical resource. It recounts the hidden stories behind the most storied franchise in baseball.

Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career. An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it is played in the 1980s. It's all here in this brilliant, honest and sometimes angry autobiography -- Williams' childhood days in San Diego, his military service, his unforgettable major league baseball debut and ensuing Hall of Fame career that included two Triple Crowns, two Most Valuable Player awards, six batting championships, five Sporting News awards as Major League Player of the Year, 521 lifetime homeruns and a .344 career batting average. And Williams tells his side of the controversies, from his battles with sportswriters and Boston fans to his single World Series performance and his career with the declining Red Sox of the 1950s. My Turn at Bat belongs in the library of everyone who loves Ted Williams, baseball, or great life stories well-told. Red Barber proclaimed My Turn at Bat to be: "One of the best baseball books I've ever read." John Leonard of The New York Times said My Turn at Bat was "unbuttoned and wholly engaging...the portrait of an original who is unrepentant about being better than anyone else."

One of baseball's renowned photographers captures this future hall-of-famer in this commemorative keepsake, recording Craig Biggio's last game in the major leagues. Unlike many current ball players, who rarely spend their careers with a single club, Biggio spent his entire twenty-year career with the Houston Astros. He is a sports treasure in Houston and a baseball great, who racked up more than three thousand hits and was selected as a National League All-Star seven times. He played his last game in front of a record crowd at Minute Maid Park, and this visual record captures the emotion and drama of that day in unforgettable photographs.

They were a one-year wonder, but oh what a year! The 1990 Cincinnati Reds stunned the baseball world by winning the National League pennant and then sweeping the heavily favored Oakland A's in the World Series. Louis boys held first place from start to finish---becoming one of only three wire-to-wire champions in major league history.Relive that fabulous season through new interviews with players, dazzling photographs, and statistical analysis that show the team in a whole new light. Award-winning Cincinnati Enquirer columnist John Erardi and blog-master Joel Luckhaupt provide a riveting story told as never before. They bring to life all the colorful characters and dramatic moments from that unforgettable year.With a foreword by Hall of Fame Reds announcer Mary Brennaman, The Wire-to-Wire Reds is the ultimate keepsake for every fan in Reds Country"Nobody writes on the Cincinnati Reds better than John Eardi, and I'm happy to include myself in that statement. That 1990 team was fascinati

Yankee Stadium, a lavish, anecdotal tribute to "the house that Ruth built, " brims with colorful characters on and off the field: managers, players, owners, some of the greatest sports heroes from Babe Ruth to Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson, from Joe DiMaggio to Mickey Mantle, and personalities from Yogi Berra and Phil Rizzuto to Bob Costas and Pete Hamill. Momentous events mix with obscure but telling human incidents. The course of the great pennant races and World Series championships is touched with the reverie of timeless long-ago summer afternoons. A chronological text is studded with boxed features highlighting special events, milestones, championship lists, and brief essays and reminiscences. Stunning illustrations include both classic images and rare, unpublished photographs. This is a book baseball fans—especially of the Bronx Bomber persuasion—will treasure forever.

When It Was A Game, the homerun series for baseball fans, returns for another glorious inning with an exciting and colorful new program narrated by Liev Schreiber: When It Was A Game 3. This retrospective look at the changing face of baseball in America takes on the 1960's, a time many believe was the last decade of baseball's innocence. Though Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and the powerful New York Yankees led off the decade with four straight World Series appearances, by 1964 they were headed for the showers. With the integration of baseball, spearheaded by Jackie Robinson in 1947 Black superstars fueled the sports growth and a fresh Latin presence brought a new spirit to the game. New names of the 60's that neighborhood kids had to have to have would include the likes of Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, and Sandy Koufax. When It Was A Game 3 features never before seen home movies and vintage photographs with memorable storytelling that bring this incredible period to life. Interviews from the field include Tim McCarver, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson and Juan Marachal and from the stands, fans and sport writers include Billy Crystal, Geraldo Rivera and Bob Costas.

Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective recounts the story of an extraordinary American landmark. It captures the creation of a home for the New York Yankees that was driven by co-owner Jacob Ruppert, who envisioned a ballpark grander than any other conceived. It takes the reader from the field to the dugout, from the press box to the clubhouse, from principal owner George Steinbrenner's office to Monument Park. But Yankee Stadium was more than a ballpark. The most iconic moments in history have taken place within its walls: Lou Gehrig's poignant farewell; epic heavyweight fights; the "Greatest Football Game Ever Played"; and the unrivaled record-breaking successes of the New York Yankees. With the unprecedented cooperation of the New York Yankees organization, photographs have been culled from every conceivable source. You will walk in the Stadium beside Mantle and Maris, witness the only perfect game in World Series history, and see the Stadium during the 2001 World Series. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective is more than just photographs. It is also graced with firsthand accounts of what it was like to be there as history unfolded. It is the power of the place that led Sports Illustrated to call Yankee Stadium the greatest venue of the twentieth century. And only here, within the pages of Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, can you feel what they felt.

Dodgers. The word conjures different things to different people, but its distinction — and notoriety — is universal. In the annals of baseball, the history of few other teams can compare to the rich legacy of the Dodgers. Their constituency includes fans from Bensonhurst to Burbank. Their colorful past — “dem bums, ” Jackie Robinson and the boys of summer, Walter O’Malley, Sandy Koufax, Tommy Lasorda, “bleeding Dodger blue” — has enlivened baseball in innumerable, immeasurable ways. And their legacy, casting a 120-year shadow, remains essential to the very nature of the game. In a compelling, insightfully written narrative and more than two hundred unforgettable photographs, many never before seen, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball tells the team's story in its entirety, from its birth in Brooklyn in 1884 and its early glories, to the heart-wrenching move to Los Angeles in 1958, to the present day. The Dodgers' evolution, and particularly their willingness to embrace change even when it was a wildly unpopular choice, is also, writes Glenn Stout in his introduction, “an inherently American story that follows a familiar path, a story of immigration, assimilation, migration, and change.” In one of the only books to look at the team as a unified whole, we see how the Dodgers helped create modern baseball in Brooklyn, how they ushered the game into its contemporary form with the signing of Jackie Robinson in 1945, and how they have borne witness to the metamorphosis of baseball from an amateur game played by gentlemen into a multibillion-dollar business. It's all here, a century and more of history-making baseball. In these pages, readers will experience some of the game's finest moments, greatest plays, and most unforgettable players, including• the birth of the “Trolley Dodgers” in an unlikely borough • a legendary series of stirring pennant races in the late 1940s and 1950s • Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball • the notorious move from East Coast to West at the hands of the much-maligned Walter O’Malley • the reemergence of the Dodgers-Giants rivalry in California • the game's most dynamic pitching duo, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale • Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run in the 1988 World Series * and lively essays by such heralded Dodger chroniclers as Dave Anderson, Jane Leavy, Bill Plaschke, Dick Young, and others

One of the most talented — and controversial — players to ever lace up a pair of cleats, Tyrus Raymond Cobb personally wrote the story of his life for a newspaper syndicate after his 20 record-setting years with the Detroit Tigers. This rough-hewn snapshot of a tumultuous era in baseball features a new introduction and photographs.

Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that the New York Yankees have won twenty-six world championships. While few clubs have been able to assemble one team worthy of being called a dynasty, the Yankees have had five. "The Yankees Century" is a memory book and tribute to the ball club and teams whse greatness spanned the 20th century. With quotations, photographs, biographical sketches, stats and rosters, "The Yankees Century" is the kind of book fans read over and over.

One of baseball's renowned photographers captures this future hall-of-famer in this commemorative keepsake, recording Craig Biggio's last game in the major leagues. Unlike many current ball players, who rarely spend their careers with a single club, Biggio spent his entire twenty-year career with the Houston Astros. He is a sports treasure in Houston and a baseball great, who racked up more than three thousand hits and was selected as a National League All-Star seven times. He played his last game in front of a record crowd at Minute Maid Park, and this visual record captures the emotion and drama of that day in unforgettable photographs.

No team in the history of Major League Baseball has ever had a run of sustained success equal to the Atlanta Braves. For fourteen consecutive seasons—from 1991 through 2005—the Braves won the National League East title, a testimony to the franchise's rock-solid foundation. The names have become a part of baseball lore: Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Bobby Cox, and Chipper Jones, among them.The Braves are the only franchise to have won a World Series representing three different cities—Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. It is the franchise of Hank Aaron, baseball's all-time home run leader and one of the game's icons. It is also the franchise that gave us Warren Spahn, Dale Murphy, and former owner Ted Turner, who transformed the sport when he made the Braves America's baseball team through cable television. Filled with stunning historical and contemporary photographs, along with humorous trivia and plenty of statistics for die-hard fans, 101 Reasons to Love the Braves is the perfect book for any fan of the Atlanta Braves.

Reversing the Curse preserves one of the greatest sports stories of our lifetime for all posterity with an absorbing account of the Red Sox’s championship season. A more epic sports saga could not have been invented: here we have the curse that began with Babe Ruth; a team of comeback kids determined to prove their mettle; the Yankees-Sox rivalry, one of the greatest in sports history; and, finally, the first World Series victory for the Sox since 1918.Dan Shaughnessy captures the Sox triumph in all its drama and euphoria with penetrating insight, a keen sense of history, and unparalleled insider access. With photographs by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Stan Grossfeld, Reversing the Curse is the definitive record of a landmark moment in baseball history.

The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.

The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.

The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.

One of the most talented — and controversial — players to ever lace up a pair of cleats, Tyrus Raymond Cobb personally wrote the story of his life for a newspaper syndicate after his 20 record-setting years with the Detroit Tigers. This rough-hewn snapshot of a tumultuous era in baseball features a new introduction and photographs.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield. 8 x 10 inch glossy picture.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox third baseman Bill Mueller. 8 x 10 inch glossy picture.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez. 8 x 10 inch Glossy Studio Plus photograph.

The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the teams' histories, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced by plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Wade Miller. 8 x 10 glossy picture.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox pitcher David Wells. 8 x 10 inch glossy picture.

The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.

Officially licensed photograph of former Boston Red Sox closer Keith Foulke. 8 x 10 inch Glossy Studio Plus.

Mike Schmidt slamming a home run. Ozzie Smith making a spectacular play at shortstop. Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, and Greg Maddux unleashing unhittable pitches. Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Gwynn, Derek Jeter, and dozens of other baseball stars. And a slew of managers, umpires, mascots, vendors, and young fans as well.They’re all here in Baseball: 365 Days, a colorful, surprising, and even moving panorama of baseball from 1970 until the present day. Drawn from the archives of Major League Baseball, Baseball’s photographs—many never before published—trace the arc of star ballplayers’ careers: from minor-league triumphs to life in the Big Show to retirement and Hall of Fame election. In lively commentaries, veteran baseball writer Joseph Wallace offers anecdotes and stats that help bring these wonderful photos to life.Even the most casual baseball fan will find much here to treasure. America’s pastime has never seemed more alive.

If you know a sports trivia buff, then Sports Publishing's 101 Little Known Facts series is the perfect gift for your favorite fan, young or old! These unique books are chock full of interesting information, statistics and photographs about five of America's most beloved sports celebrities, including Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Karl Malone, Troy Aikman and Ken Griffey Jr. Did you know Michael Jordan has a putting green in the basement of his home? Or that, at eighteen months old, Tiger Woods had an 11 on a 410-yard, par-4 hole, the first hole of his life? Did you know that NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone's first basketball cost $2.98 which his mother obtained with a down payment of 75 cents? Were you aware that Dallas Cowboys' star Troy Aikman originally planned to attend medical school? Or that Seattle Mariners star Ken Griffey Jr. and his father, Ken Griffey Sr., are the only father-son duo to play big leaugue baseball at the same time?

This definitive chronicle of one of major league baseball's most beloved — and beleaguered — teams covers every season from 1901 to 2007. Dividing its history by decades, years, and even days, Indians Journal features hitting and pitching highlights, team and individual player stats, interesting and unusual facts, historical and contemporary photographs, and unique "season in a sentence" recaps. Author John Snyder includes it all — starting line-ups, trade info, annual attendance, all-time franchise numbers beyond the ERAs, batting averages including on-base percentages, shut-outs, complete games, and more.