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“You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever?”Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, t… more

From Babe Ruth to Bo Jackson, from Cool Papa Bell to Lou Brock, Buck O’Neil has seen it all. As a first baseman and then manager of the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, O’Neil witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demi… more

Meet Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and other baseball heroes in this unique radio broadcast reenactment of a legendary All-Star Game, marking a pivotal time in sports history.1934, Chicago. Come step back in time to witness the best of the be… more

The Mountain of Seven Gables is a story of survival and redemption set against a background of Northern California, San Francisco, Fresno, and Sacramento. It takes the reader on a journey down the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to the… more

In Peter Schilling’s wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the… more

In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier and became a hero for black and white Americans, yet Robinson was a Negro League player before he integrated Major League baseball. Negro League ballplayers had been thrilling black fan… more

Before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, black and white ballplayers had been playing against one another for decades—even, on rare occasions, playing with each other. Interracial contests took place during the off-s… more

In this delightful book that every baseball fan will cherish, ten outstanding ballplayers remember the heyday of the game in the 1930s and 1940s. It was the era of Gehrig and DiMaggio; of Foxx, Greenberg, and Williams; of Grove and Feller. … more

In the half-century since its birth, as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED grew from a struggling start-up to America’s preeminent sports magazine, one thing has remained constant: the commitment to great storytelling. That part of the magazine’s mission h… more