Books in the Baseball In America series

Provides detailed descriptions of all of the old professional parks and the many teams that played in them, including Baker Bowl, with its right field wall so close to home plate, it prompted sportswriter Red Smith to quip, "It might be exaggerating to say the outfield wall casts a shadow across the infield.

Presents the story of Bill Conlin, anchored one of America's best sports sections. This book reveals Conlin's playfulness with language and ideas led to creative nicknames - like "The Jowly Grim Giant" for Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson - and to entire stories based on outrageous premises.

Presents the story of the New York Yankees, captured in more than 450 photographs and entertaining anecdotes about your favorite players. This work provides statistics and game highlights through the 1996 season and World Championship, hitting streaks, ERA's, box scores, trades, and American League championship and World Series rosters.

Features a biography of the Hall of Famer who pitched no-hitters against the sluggers of both leagues, took on sportswriters and baseball leaders, and started a second career as a politician. With an assist from his wife, Mary, the mother of their nine children, he waged an unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, and became a six-term congressman.

In the 1950s Phillies unexpectedly captured the hearts and imaginations of Philadelphians. A young upstart team they capped a Cinderella season by winning the pennant from the heavily favored Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets Field. This work covers this era in Phillies history and recounts the developments that put this young and talented team together.