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The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over 50 years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for many of their games, working alongside such legends as Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.

64 Deep - A Boston Red Sox PodcastWelcome to the ultimate destination for passionate Red Sox fans who bleed red and blue. Join us as we dive deep into everything Boston baseball—from breaking news and roster moves to heated debates about what this team needs to get back to World Series glory.Each episode brings fresh perspectives on the Sox, featuring special guests including former players, journalists, and the most dedicated fans in baseball. Whether we're celebrating a winning streak, demanding accountability during tough stretches, or reminiscing about October magic, we bring the passion...

A Chicago White Sox Podcast that breaks everything down inning by inning. News, rumors, moves, top prospects, and predictions. Fast, focused, and made for real White Sox Fans.

If you live for Ravens football, ride every pitch with the Orioles, and still care when the Caps are making noise, this is your spot. We’re talking wins, losses, hot streaks, collapses, bold predictions, and the stuff every Baltimore fan is arguing about all week. No corporate takes. Just real ones. Follow the pod everywhere:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@410sportsandeats?_r=1&_t=ZT-93BisCcHFjzYouTube: https://youtube.com/@410sportsandeats?si=VbR-7-1ku6unx3lAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/410.md.sports.eats?igsh=MXAwYTE3bXN3aXZscg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr#BaltimoreSports #BaltimoreRavens #...

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their...

When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four.

Hosted by James Clark and Nick Lee, this podcast delivers passionate Padres breakdowns, advanced analytics, roster construction talk, and honest conversations about where the Padres are headed in 2026 and beyond. Whether we’re discussing Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado, the Padres pitching staff, payroll strategy, or ZiPS projections, we cover it all with insight and context you won’t find anywhere else. Each episode features: ⚾ San Diego Padres game analysis & reactions 📊 Advanced stats, analytics, and FanGraphs-style breakdowns 🧠 Roster construction, trades, free agency & farm ...

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan brilliantly renders a snapshot of America struggling to find its footing amid the ravages of the Great Depression, told through the story of the first all-star baseball game in Major League history In July of 1933, America was at or near the lowest point in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a...

When Sports Illustrated was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputable, the national pastime, its stars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology. As baseballs fortunes rose and fell over the next 50 years - and then rose again to new heights, drawing more than 65 million fans to ballparks in 2004 - the game never failed to produce great drama and inspired storytelling.

Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers Isaacs' eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history.

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Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.

The New York Times Bestseller With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling...

The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story. For his entire childhood, Jesse Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Now, he has a life in baseball that he could have only imagined: he met the love of his life in the industry; they shaped...

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He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of...

An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He...

Baseball continues to be a popular game both as a spectator sport and as a pastime. Baseball for Dummies is for baseball fans at all levels, from players and coaches to spectators who love the game. Baseball Hall of Fame player Joe Morgan explains baseball with remarkable insight, using down-to-earth language so everyone from the casual observer to the die-hard fan can gain a fuller appreciation of the sport.