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For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball’s singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson’s death, letters come to his widow, Rachel, by the score. But Robinson’s impact extended far beyond baseball: he opened the door for Black Americans to participate in other sports, and was a national figure who spoke and wrote eloquently about inequality.

As a kid, I fell asleep with a transistor radio tuned to Oakland A’s baseball games almost 2,800 miles away. Listening to those games that originated from what might as well have been the moon for a kid in South Carolina fascinated me.It was a time when information was garnered from the back of baseball cards bought from the 7-11 with every penny of my allowance.I still have thousands of those cards that my son and I occasionally reference.The images on those cards are often hilarious, but the information on the back was the gold.Far-off birthplaces, remote minor league cities I’d never...

Welcome to the True North podcast, your weekly update on everything Seattle Mariners. Every Monday, we review the M’s week that was with highlights, interviews, transaction updates and more. Don’t miss out on a single storyline this season. Hosted by Lydia Cruz.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished...

The fascinating, true origin story of baseball - how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation.

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Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players. What makes Scott's book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career.

Would you love to explore the incredible and exciting history of baseball? Whether you want to (1) learn amazing 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 the years, this audiobook will give you everything you need to know.

Eddie and the Gun Girl is the true story of the shooting of Philadelphia Phillies All-Star first baseman Eddie Waitkus by a deranged female admirer in 1949. While such incidents would become commonplace in ensuing years, as stars of every persuasion would surround themselves with bodyguards and live in increasing fear of unannounced assailants, the events of that June 14 at the elegant Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago were unprecedented.

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