Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America's premier sport - and its fans - through interviews with a remarkable cross section of widely known and extraordinarily accomplished individuals in a vari
A collection of 175 columns from the great baseball writer recalls the greatest moments of the game though Red Smith's wise, witty gaze--from Jackie Robinson's debut to Hank Greenberg's home runs.
Chronicles the life and career of the largely forgotten former baseball legend who inspired the creation of Roy Hobbes, the hero of Bernard Malamud's baseball novel, "The Natural."
When Rod Carew retired in 1985, following twelve seasons with the Minnesota Twins and seven with the California Angels, he had amassed seven batting titles, more than three thousand hits, and eighteen
