"The Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance. Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals: How the 2017 Astros and 2018 Red Sox used cutting-edge technology to win the World Series...

A pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American south.

Gill Gamesh is the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal never hit a home run sober. In this satiric novel, baseball's status as national pastime and myth is turned into an occasion for farce, with a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

"The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself."--

Traces the history of the Toronto Blue Jays, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, quotes, anecdotes, and a glossary.

Traces the history of the Baltimore Orioles, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, quotes, anecdotes, and a glossary.

"Describes the top ten best teams in baseball history"--

Documents the story of the Baseball Hall of Fame honorees, tracing how the Acerra family of New Jersey formed their own semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and became the longest-running all-brother team in history.

Explores some of the reasons why fans love the Boston Red Sox. Each spread highlights a different fact, player, story, or tradition that helps define the team.