NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will.

This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.

The year is 1927 and Lou Gehrig is the ascendant star of the New York Yankees powerhouse. The Iron Himself isyour guide through the Yankees clubhouse in this lost memoir, discovered by historian Alan Gaff. In an effort to grow his celebrity on the West Coast, Gehrig's agent arranged for the young baseball star to serialize his life's story in regional newspapers. Now, for the first time, we hear directly from Gehrig about his hardscrabble childhood breaking into the bigs, the Babe, and his aspirations for the future.

In addition to being a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, presidential historian, and political commentator, Doris Kearns Goodwin is also a diehard baseball fan. She recounts her deep love for the game in Wait 'Til Next Year, her memoir of growing up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan who rarely missed a game and always kept a scorecard. Over the years, Goodwin has even credited baseball broadcasts with crafting her sense of narrative.

Got Natitude? Now you do with Jesse Dougherty's Buzz Saw about the improbable World Series run of the 2019 Washington Nationals. A Washington Post beat reporter, Doughtery covers the Nats' wild ride that brought the trophy to the Capitol.

He's widely regarded as the nastiest SOB to ever step between the chalk, but what if all we know of Ty Cobb is wrong? Longtime Sports Illustrated editor Charles Leerhsen does a deep dive on the Georgia Peach and debunks much of the mythology around him. Sure, Cobb had his rough edges but, really, he was the victim of scurrilous posthumous character assassination. Ty Cobb is a revealing biography of a true legend.

The Molina brothers are synonmous with the catcher position. Bengie, Jose, and Yadier have all won World Series rings and Gold Glove honors, but how did one family produce three prodigious catchers? Bengie shares the family's story and how he and his brothers have remained humble and hardworking despite their success, fame, and fortune.