As she did in her acclaimed biography of Sandy Koufax, Leavy goes beyond the myth and the hyperbole to reveal the man behind The Mick, Mickey Mantle, and his hold on a generation of adoring fans

The first definitive biography of Henry Aaron—baseball's great home-run champion and one of its most enduring legends.  As the steroid controversy has increasingly tarnished baseball's image, Hank Aaron's achievements have come to ...

Reviled in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, Walter O'Malley is the most controversial owner in the history of American sports. He changed baseball and Brooklyn forever when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while famous writ...

Feared by pitchers and loved by baseball fans of all stripes, David “Big Papi” Ortiz wields a big bat, a huge smile, and an even bigger heart. In this blockbuster biography, Ortiz tells his tale: Growing up poor in the Dom...

Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee yearsWhen Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most stor...

When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport -- in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt m...

My Greatest Day in Baseball, one of the earliest collections of the game's oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recre...

As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DMaggio piled into a car and drove 1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, remai...

A grand-slam combination: an iconic bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball.

Authorized by Willie Mays, the definitive biography of one of the greatest baseball players of all time.