From pitching to baserunning from defending the bunt to making a trip to the mound, the authors have every aspect of the game covered.

There's trivia, and then there's knowledgeÑdeep, extensive, obsessive knowledgeÑmasquerading as trivia. It's the kind of trivia that, if you know the answer, makes you feel triumphant, and if you don't, gives you an education. The kind of trivia based not on what we shouldn't be expected to know, but on what we shouldÑif we're to consider ourselves true fans. Dennis Purdy, author of the just-published Team-by-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball, has been collecting baseball trivia since before he could shave, and now presents the best of the best: a massive collection of over 1,000 trivia games. Not solo questions, but half-page games, every one involving matching multiple players to their accomplishments, or evaluating multiple clues to discover a mystery subject's identity, or digging deep into a round-up of terms, nicknames, phrases, awards, events, individual teams, locations, and more. The games cover three centuries of baseball history. Home run calls and the announcers who made them famous. The peculiar geography of a baseball fieldÑ where's the garden? the gateway? the firing line? Inimitable slang: cackler, chucker, clinker, and squibber. The lesser-known career feats of baseball's ÒBig 3,Ó Ruth, Aaron, and Bonds. World Series potpourriÑThey won the first night game in World Series history. . . . The team that lost the most World SeriesÑ13 . . . The only American League team to lose the World Series in three consecutive seasons . . . And much, much, much more.

Chicago Cubs fans offer a unique conduit for understanding how our brain lets us believe in a "curse", and what makes a day at the ballpark so enjoyable. For the players, brain research offers insight into what makes it possible to hit a fastball traveling 95-miles an hour.

You can flex your mental muscle and learn interesting facts about baseball with Brain Games Baseball Puzzles. All the puzzles are related to baseball and are sure to provide a season's worth of fun. Enjoy word searches full of common baseball terms, All-Star picture puzzles, major league mazes, and more. Offers a variety of puzzles including: anagrams, crosswords, language puzzles, logic puzzles, mazes, memory puzzles, visual logic puzzles, word searches. Different puzzles stretch different parts of the brain and can enhance the following cognitive functions: analysis, attention, computation, creative thinking, general knowledge, language, logic, planning, problem solving, spatial reasoning, spatial visualization, visual logic, visual search. 200 puzzles, divided into five levels, from easy to difficult. Spiral-bound, 192 pages. Yogi Berra famously said, Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. And like in baseball, where teams hold spring training to get ready for a long season, you need brain training to sharpen your mind and protect it from decline. Hone your mental capacity to ensure that you stay on the top of your game with Brain Games Baseball Puzzles. The book, part of the popular Brain Games series, is designed to make you feel the burn (mentally, of course) by working different cognitive functions.

Presents puzzling or ambiguous baseball questions derived from real events, such as "Can two pitchers be in the same team's lineup at the same time?" and gives the answers based on the rule book.

Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research and pedagogy. This collection of 17 new essays is selected from the approximately 100 presentations of the 2013 and the 2014 symposia, covering topics whose importance extends beyond the ballpark. Presented in six themed parts, the essays consider the congruence of culture and baseball, the importance of ballpark itself, the myths, legends and icons of the baseball imagination, international and ethnic game variations, the work of baseball museum curators and a context for the game's rules of play and labor.