Despite long odds and low funds, the Czech Republic’s national baseball team of amateur players managed to shock the world at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. In a world where athletes have become multi-million-dollar legends, We Sacrifice Everything to Baseball reveals how teamwork, sacrifice, and self-belief can still make a difference.

The story of Jackie Robinson’s prodigious talent, his courageous journey, and his influence on both the game of baseball and American society writ large has been told well and often. What hasn’t been told is the full story of his first season in the minor leagues in Montreal. Royal Treatment explores Jackie Robinson’s experience in Canada and the warm embrace he received from Montrealers well before he became one of baseball’s household names.

To this day, Bob Feller is the only pitcher to have signed his first professional contract and played in the Major League while still in high school. By focusing on the first six years of Bob Feller’s career, So Young, So Great captures in revelatory detail Feller’s unprecedented arrival, as a high school teenager, on the Big League stage, and his rapid ascension into one of the game’s all-time greats.

Focusing on the Cardinals and Yankees and their dramatic seven-game battle in the 1926 World Series, Baseball in the Roaring Twenties tells the story of key players such as Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby, the Negro Leagues season, and how baseball and the inextricably linked aspects of American life—Prohibition, the Jazz Age, and the rise of sports gambling—converged that year. 

The Texas League’s first baseball season in 1888 took place during a turbulent political, economic, and cultural time in Texas. The Land of Sand and Cotton tells the origin story of Texas baseball, which culminated in Major League franchises and World Series championships in both Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth.

The Texas Rangers and Me takes readers on a journey through the incredible highs and lows and the unforgettable moments that have shaped the franchise through the eyes of beat reporter T.R. Sullivan, who covered the team for thirty-two years, longer than any reporter in franchise history.

Starting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever published at both teams during the late 1990s and the 2000 season.

Many baseball observers have viewed Ford Frick as an ineffective commissioner of Major League Baseball, largely manipulated by the league’s owners, and more of an observer than a changemaker during his tenure from 1951 to 1965. Dave Bohmer challenges this perception, presenting Frick as a key figure in some of the massive changes baseball underwent during his thirty-one years as an executive.

Stan Coveleski was a quiet, modest man, the youngest and most successful of five ball-playing Polish American brothers who worked in the coal mines near their hometown of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Spitballer tells Covey’s inspirational story in the context of his time and the rise and decline of the spitball, a tricky and sometimes dangerous pitch to control and one that had an enormous impact on early twentieth-century baseball.

Baseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. In the Japanese Ballpark features engaging interviews with twenty-six baseball personalities to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the game.