Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections whatsoever with [...]
Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America’s national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last 200 years has it become an American institution. Growing from a sport [...]
It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classic World Series, and that America went to war. In this look at what he calls “the best baseball season ever”, Robert Creamer skillfully intertwines all [...]
A humorous and poignant story that follows a fictional major league baseball team through a summer season when the team comes together after one of the players is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.
This play is based on the novel by Mark Harris.
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Author: Eric Simonson
Publisher: L.A. Theatre [...]
He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life.
In this extraordinary biography, Creamer uncovers the complex and captivating man behind the legend. He presents the truth behind [...]
Baseball is more than Joe DiMaggio and Babe Ruth, it’s America itself. From the Civil War to the Black Sox scandal, this recording chronicles the story of baseball through archival recordings, interviews, music, sound effects and witty commentary.
Learn about Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson as we visit the legendary ballparks and [...]