Publisher Comments

Five years after the publication of The Baseball Book, the Sports Illustrated editorial team that created that New York Times best-seller returns with this updated and expanded edition. This 326-page revision brings the original edition up to the minute, with more than 80 pages of new material, including timely stories by Sports Illustrated's best writers and 60 pages of spectacular new photographs up to and including the San Francisco Giants' Wor... read more>>>

Publisher Comments

“After one hundred years, each time you walk up the ramp from beneath the stands and out toward that sea of sunlit grass, Fenway Park remains the most special kind of place there is, a place that can still change your life.”

In anticipation of the one hundredth anniversary of America’s most beloved ballpark, the untold story of how Fenway Park came to be and its remarkable first season. 1912 was a leap year, the year the Titani... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

Deep research and sensitive writing combine in an honest, rather sad, yet relentlessly fascinating biography of this iconic American. And a provocative answer to the 50 year old question: who was better ? Highest Recommendation

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

Serious baseball fans will want to grab The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant. How the major league leader in career runs batted in, not to mention the obvious--one of the greatest home run hitters in the history of the game (#2 on the career list)-- could be under-appreciated is beyond me and yet this book shows how Aaron endured slight after snub throughout his career. Bryant's book is a comp... read more>>>