“david nemec”

Find out what happened in baseball on your birthday, or any day, with this book, written by the authors of Great Baseball Feats, Facts, and Firsts. The book contains a full year's calendar of important, intriguing, and fascinating events transpiring throughout the life of America's favorite pastime.... More

In The Official Rules of Baseball Illustrated, David Nemec relates the history of the rules, explores how the rules have changed and why, and relates some of the most memorable episodes in baseball in which the rules have played a central role: the famed "Pine Tar Game," the beaning of Ray Chapman, ... More

An extraordinary and powerfully wrenching novel about an adolescent boy named Ben, who searches for a path out of a seemingly inescapable darkness after the loss of his father in a time and place full of contradictions.The story takes place in a midwestern suburban town in the mid-1950s. It takes us... More

Now expanded and updated through the 2007 postseason and beyond, this comprehensive volume features all the need-to-know stats, scores, and strikeouts every diehard baseball fan wants. Revised reissue.Discover the unconventional, the offbeat feats, the historic moments, and the one-of-a-kind charact... More

This fact-filled and wicked assortment of 453 questions is served up by baseball-guru Scott Flatow. Covering batters, pitchers, all-stars, umpires, catchers, wrongdoers, ballparks, rookies, Hall-of-Famers, teammates, designated hitters, managers and more, the entries are grouped into 30 subject cate... More

Here is a seven-game World Series of entertainment, innings one through nine, starting off with rookies and ending with famous Fall Classic events, heroes, and villains. Readers can keep their own score and can earn hits, RBIs, and homers depending on the degree of difficulty of the question. There ... More

Here is a seven-game World Series of entertainment, innings one through nine, starting off with rookies and ending with famous Fall Classic events, heroes, and villains. Readers can keep their own score and can earn hits, RBIs, and homers depending on the degree of difficulty of the question. There ... More

This classic, illustrated history of America's greatest pastime has been expanded and updated with more than 50 new photographs and a new collection of essays on baseball in the 1990s from writers such as George Will, Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed, Roy Blount Jr., and Tom Wicker. 840 photos.THE ULTIMATE ... More