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In 1943, at the height of World War II, the Highbridge Hellbenders of the the class-C Chattahoochee Valley League deep in Georgia acquire a 17-year-old shortstop from Oklahoma named Danny Boles. The Hellbenders snap him up because he's too young for the draft and preternaturally talented. In Highbridge, they make him the boarding-house roommate of an enormous first baseman with the awe-inspiring skill of blasting monster home runs out of the CVL's tumbledown ballparks. Known to his teammates as Jumbo Hank Clerval, this mysterious giant and the mute Danny Boles strike up an improbable friendship that culminates at the hot season's end in triumph and disappointment, not to mention a host of haunting discoveries in both the simmering South and the wind-swept Aleutian Islands. Hailed by critics as a contender for the Great American Novel laurel, Brittle Innings evokes a bygone era of worldwide conflict and homeland unity. It also convincingly links documented wartime history with the immemorial mythology of the superhero and the legendary status of baseball as the unchallenged American pastime. If you read it, you will not forget it.

18 innings in a critical postseason game? That's nothing for this marathon mascot. From the Astros' Bobblehead of the Month program, re-live one of the most incredible wins in Astros history with the Orbit Houston Astros 18 Inning Walk Off Mascot Bobblehead. Features Portrays Orbit wearing his retro brick red gameday uniform in a celebratory pose, fired up after an incredible win Button on top of base activates speaker that plays the iconic call of the Astros’ famous series-clinching walk-off win in the 18th inning of Game 4 of the 2005 NLDS Thematic stadium backdrop with train accent to make your collection feel more like H-Town “NEXT STOP, ST. LOUIS!” text display on backdrop to celebrate the 'Stros moving on to the next round Team-colored base that will look great in your collection “IT’S GONE, IT’S GONE, IT’S GONE!” text display on front of base to immortalize that epic call Dirt-textured top of base Handcrafted Hand painted Measurements Height: Approximately 10 in., base included Details NOTE: In order to get our bobbles to as many fans as possible, we have a strict limit of two (2) of these items per person while on pre-order. If we find this limit is being abused, we reserve the right to cancel and refund your order. Thank you for your cooperation! Due to its limited nature, sales and discounts are not applicable to this item while on pre-order. We apologize for any inconvenience. The product(s) you receive might vary slightly in appearance from the product’s image on our website due to the nature of your product(s) being handmade. Please understand that all handmade items, by nature, may have imperfections. Although we are thorough, there can be inconsistencies based on the creative nature, and it is possible that one item may look a little different from the next. Our items may have natural and unique imperfections. Any item you purchase is one of a kind. There are no two items that are exactly the same. Not a toy Edition Size: 400 Individually numbered Officially licensed by Major League Baseball Imported

One inning. Three homers! Swing for the fences and immortalize a fantastic frame with this Juan Soto & Aaron Judge & Giancarlo Stanton New York Yankees Same Inning Home Run Mini Bobblehead Scene. Features Portrays Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and Giancarlo Stanton wearing their white gameday uniforms in batting action poses, ready to dominate the inning Team-colored backdrop and base that will look great in your collection ”BRONX BOMBERS” text display on backdrop to celebrate all three of their home runs Field-textured top of base Wordmark team name display on top of base in case there were any doubts where your allegiances lie Team logo display on front of base for a little extra team spirit ”SAME INNING HOME RUNS” and “MAY 24TH, 2024” text displays on front of base so you can immortalize this epic inning Player number displays on front of base, even though we know they’re No. 1 in your heart Front name displays so everyone knows who the faces of your franchise are Handcrafted Hand painted Measurements Height: Approximately 5 in., base included Details NOTE: In order to get our bobbles to as many fans as possible, we have a strict limit of two (2) of these items per person while on pre-order. If we find this limit is being abused, we reserve the right to cancel and refund your order. Thank you for your cooperation! Due to its limited nature, sales and discounts are not applicable to this item while on pre-order. We apologize for any inconvenience. The product(s) you receive might vary slightly in appearance from the product’s image on our website due to the nature of your product(s) being handmade. Please understand that all handmade items, by nature, may have imperfections. Although we are thorough, there can be inconsistencies based on the creative nature, and it is possible that one item may look a little different from the next. Our items may have natural and unique imperfections. Any item you purchase is one of a kind. There are no two items that are exactly the same. Not a toy Edition Size: 124 Individually numbered Officially licensed by Major League Baseball Players Choice Academy™ Imported

Nine pitches. Nine strikes. Three outs. One inning. Say "halo" to the newest member of the Immaculate Inning Club with this Reid Detmers Los Angeles Angels Immaculate Inning Bobblehead. Features Portrays Detmers wearing his gameday uniform in a pitching action pose, ready to shut down the competition Thematic, team-colored backdrop with nine baseball accents, team logo display, and STRIKE text display, celebrating Detmers' nine-pitch gem Pitching mound accent on top of base with team logo display, in case there were any doubts where your allegiances lie IMMACULATE INNING text display on front of base to commemorate his epic performance Front name display so everyone knows who the face of your franchise is Handcrafted Hand painted Measurements Height: Approximately 8 in. Details NOTE: In order to get this bobble to as many fans as possible, we have a strict limit of two (2) of these items per person. If we find this limit is being abused, we reserve the right to cancel and refund your order. Thank you for your cooperation! Due to its limited nature, sales and discounts are not applicable to this item. We apologize for any inconvenience. The product(s) you receive might vary slightly in appearance from the product’s image on our website due to the nature of your product(s) being handmade. Please understand that all handmade items, by nature, may have imperfections. Although we are thorough, there can be inconsistencies based on the creative nature, and it is possible that one item may look a little different from the next. Our items may have natural and unique imperfections. Any item you purchase is one of a kind. There are no two items that are exactly the same. Not a toy Players Choice Academy™ Edition Size: 222 Individually numbered Officially licensed by Major League Baseball Imported

Pitches: Nine. Strikes: Nine. Outs: Three. Immaculate innings: One. The numbers don't lie, and they say that this Hayden Wesneski Chicago Cubs Immaculate Inning Bobblehead is the perfect way to immortalize his immaculate appearance in your collection. Features Portrays Wesneski wearing his gameday uniform in a pitching action pose, ready to shut down the competition Thematic, team-colored backdrop with IMMACULATE INNING and SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2022 text displays on backdrop so you can immortalize his incredible inning Team-colored base that will look great in your collection Team logo display on front of base, in case there were any doubts where your allegiances lie Field-textured top of base Front name display so everyone knows who the face of your franchise is Handcrafted Hand painted Measurements Height: Approximately 8 in. Details NOTE: In order to get this bobble to as many fans as possible, we have a strict limit of one (1) of these items per person. If we find this limit is being abused, we reserve the right to cancel and refund your order. Thank you for your cooperation! Due to its limited nature, sales and discounts are not applicable to this item. We apologize for any inconvenience. The product(s) you receive might vary slightly in appearance from the product’s image on our website due to the nature of your product(s) being handmade. Please understand that all handmade items, by nature, may have imperfections. Although we are thorough, there can be inconsistencies based on the creative nature, and it is possible that one item may look a little different from the next. Our items may have natural and unique imperfections. Any item you purchase is one of a kind. There are no two items that are exactly the same. Not a toy Players Choice Academy™ Edition Size: 72 Individually numbered Officially licensed by Major League Baseball Imported

This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).

This Excerpt was taken from the foreward: THIS BOOK IS ABOUT BASEBALL GAMES AND PLAYERS AND seasons that I watched from the spring of 1977 to the late summer of 1981, and also about the substrata of the sport---money, celebrity, power, traditions, and social change---that lie beneath its green and ordered fields. Most of the autumn chapters include a summary of the campaigns just past, but readers are advised not to take these as history. Many deserving ball teams and outstanding players have been slighted in these pages, because I did not see them play over an extended span of games, and other clubs and stars reappear so frequently as to suggest some bias at work. I admit to the charge. I am still a baseball fan as well as a baseball writer, and old fans like to retrace their steps; I like to be in Scottsdale and St. Petersburg in March, in Fenway Park in July (September there hurts too much), at Shea whenever the Mets appear to be breathing, and in Yankee Stadium or Chavez Ravine or walking over he bridge across the Allegheny to Three Rivers Stadium in October. I take sides during most games and through every summer, and although this disqualifies me as a Gibbon, it has probably kept me cheerful. As Bill Veeck always says, it's meant to be fun. Some readers may hear a somber, almost funereal murmur in this book's title. This is not intended, for although big-league baseball is long past its innocent youth and well into what appears to be a disordered and self-destructive sort of middle age, it is a flushed and vigorous reprobate, with astounding recuperative powers. I suggest two lighter alternative readings---"Late" as in the late news: the baseball news of recent years; or, perhaps better, the later, most absorbing innings of a good game, when we in the stands begin to understand its particular pace and patterns, and even to pick up some glimmering of its resolution.

How did one guy get this lucky? Jack Ridley was about to become a sports icon. But fate intervened on the way to the game.The loves of his life were taken from him. One was baseball. Another was about to be discovered. Both were gone forever.Jack Ridley searches for a second chance in life and love that may never arrive. He is a former player who finds that a rookie's talent is about to be wasted. Jack discovers that his own love for the game must overcome his fear of returning to the world that crippled his spirit.Five years ago, Jack was about to step into baseball's highest echelons. He hoped he had found love with the daughter of the team owner. Bad luck destroyed both dreams.Jack knows that 'baseball will repair losses,' but he is alone in his journey. His chance for redemption arrives in a brief encounter with a young ballplayer whose own dreams were derailed. Life gets in the way as Jack teaches Duncan James the finer points of big-league baseball. Duncan's mother finds healing from her own losses as this unknown stranger pursues revival and renewal through America's pastime. Jack finds that love has many forms and can be unexpected. You have only to be willing to play.

In 1943, at the height of World War II, the Highbridge Hellbenders of the the class-C Chattahoochee Valley League deep in Georgia acquire a 17-year-old shortstop from Oklahoma named Danny Boles. The Hellbenders snap him up because he's too young for the draft and preternaturally talented. In Highbridge, they make him the boarding-house roommate of an enormous first baseman with the awe-inspiring skill of blasting monster home runs out of the CVL's tumbledown ballparks. Known to his teammates as Jumbo Hank Clerval, this mysterious giant and the mute Danny Boles strike up an improbable friendship that culminates at the hot season's end in triumph and disappointment, not to mention a host of haunting discoveries in both the simmering South and the wind-swept Aleutian Islands. Hailed by critics as a contender for the Great American Novel laurel, Brittle Innings evokes a bygone era of worldwide conflict and homeland unity. It also convincingly links documented wartime history with the immemorial mythology of the superhero and the legendary status of baseball as the unchallenged American pastime. If you read it, you will not forget it.

One of baseball's finest players offers frank and outspoken commentary on the prejudice he has suffered as a black athlete, the continuing problem of racial tension off the field, serious drug and alcohol abuse problems in his sport, and unfair spending and training practices

This compilation of 120 primary writings documents baseball’s first century, from a loosely organized village social event to the arrival of the National League. Collecting from a wide range of sources—including newspaper accounts, letters, folk poetry, songs, and annual guides—Dean A. Sullivan of Fairfax, Virginia, progresses chronologically from the earliest known baseball reference (1825) to the creation of the Doubleday Myth (1908).

How do we know that God loves baseball? Because everywhere you look there are baseball fields and stadiums. Obviously when God made dry ground and separated it from the waters He had in mind the building of baseball diamonds. "In the Big Inning God Created Baseball" matches stories of the stars of baseball with those of Biblical heroes found in scriptures. The book points out how baseball and the Bible compliment each other in many ways. The reader will see how daily living can be better and more enjoyable by following the rules of the game. "In the Big Inning God Created Baseball" is entertaining as well as informative. By using quotes from famous baseball stars of the past and present the message contained is made more enjoyable. Yogi Berra said, "If people don't want to come to the ball park, how are you gonna stop them?" To enjoy baseball you don't have to go to the ballpark, just pick up this book and start reading. Intricate details are explained in the book like how to catch a knuckleball, one of baseball's most unpredictable pitches. Bob Uecker says the way to do that is to "wait until the ball stops rolling and pick it up." Rain delays are a part of baseball but none lasted as long as the one Noah experienced in the Bible. 40 days and nights of rain is a mighty big delay. You'll want to read about what happened on one particular Easter Egg hunt at Major League game held by the players for their kids. The significance of Easter is evident in the scripture lessons in this book as well. Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, but by reading "In the Big Inning God Created Baseball" you will hit it out of the park."

Incisive, personal reporting that covers the five most recent baseball seasons and such events as Reggie Jackson's three World Series home runs, the triumph of the Phillies, and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players' strike

From swing mechanics to the hitter's mental approach, 9 Innings of Hitting is one of the most in-depth resources ever written to help baseball and fast-pitch softball players improve as hitters. Troy Silva of Rijo Athletics explains what players and coaches really need to know about hitting, and exposes the common myths and misconceptions taught by coaches today including irrelevant principles that actually hinder on-field performance. Tailored to hitters who aspire to play at a higher level, 9 Innings of Hitting offers specific insights about proper swing mechanics, how to improve bat speed, pitch recognition, developing the right plan and approach, slow-motion video analysis, sport-specific strength training, and how to put Troy's concepts to work in training, BP, and games. Coaches, players, and parents desperately need this information so they completely understand what it takes for players to perform to their full capability. Learn the fundamental hitting principles that Troy has used to help thousands of baseball and softball players unlock their true potential!

Depicts the career of the baseball player, Minnie Minoso, and describes his contributions to the development of the Chicago White Sox into a champion baseball team

Explores the many-faceted world of professional baseball, using the June 10, 1982 game between the Brewers and Orioles as a framework for discussing of catchers' signals, the physiology of pitching, owners' balance sheets, and more

Using one particular moment in baseball history--a June 10, 1982 game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles--Dan Okrent explains the facets of our national pastime that are crucial to its nature but invisible to the uninitiated fan, such as catcher's signals, pitching physiology, club owners' balance sheets, and scores more.

For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country's at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny's headed for Highbridge, Georgia - home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and the Highbridge Hellbenders, a Class C farm club in the Chattahoochee Valley League. He's a scrappy player with one minor quirk: a violent encounter on the train to Georgia has rendered him mute, his vocal cords tied up in knots.Danny's idiosyncrasy, however, is nothing compared to that of his new Hellbender roommate, an erudite seven-foot giant by the name of Jumbo Hank Clerval. With his yellow eyes, strangely scarred face, and sausage-sized fingers, Hank seems to have been put together in a meat-packing plant. But he plays a mean first base and can hit the ball a mile. With the Hellbenders in a pennant race as hot as the relentless Georgia sun, the eloquent Clerval forms a special kinship with the speechless kid from Oklahoma. Danny soon realizes that Hank is not an ordinary man but something more complex...more mysterious than he'd imagined.These two very different ballplayers forge a bond as the season moves inexorably toward its dramatic, and ultimately violent, conclusion. Both want a shot at the major leagues and both want to know what it's like to be a man. But they are about to discover how ambition and desire can turn even the gentlest soul into the worst kind of monster.At turns funny, tragic, and ultimately uplifting, Brittle Innings is a brilliant evocation of a uniquely American drama: a season-long contest in which fantasies are engaged, heroes are created and destroyed, and innocence is lost forever.

In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteen years later, the Baseball Prospectus annual regularly hits best-seller lists and has become an indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectus integrates statistics, interviews, and analysis to deliver twenty arguments about today’s game. In the tradition of their seminal book, Baseball Between the Numbers, they take on everything from steroids to the amateur draft. They probe the impact of managers on the game. They explain the critical art of building a bullpen. In an era when statistics matter more than ever, Extra Innings is an essential volume for every baseball fan.

Incisive, personal reporting that covers the five most recent baseball seasons and such events as Reggie Jackson's three World Series home runs, the triumph of the Phillies, and the bitter ordeal of the 1981 players' strike