"Join Katie as she travels more than 30,000 miles to all 30 MLB parks in a single season, a rare feat covered by the likes of ESPN. Along with black-and-white photographs, Katie shares letters written to her mom, who died of cancer before the two of them could go on the adventure of a lifetime together. During the journey, Katie beautifully illustrates the brevity of life, the impetus of adventure, and the clarity that comes by watching America's...

The ultimate history of American ballparks and also one of the most entertaining histories of the game itself. Fulfills the wildest dreams of baseball fans everywhere, traveling through space and time in a vast, entertaining volume putting us in a field box at every big-league park in the pastime's history. Going from the temples of baseball's sweetly mythic past to the urban, unorthodox sites of the present like Camden Yards and PNC Park. Chronicling...

"Ben, a sports analytics wizard, loves baseball. Eric, his best friend, hates it. But when Ben writes an algorithm for the optimal baseball road trip, an impossible dream of every pitch of 30 games in 30 stadiums in 30 days, who will he call on to take shifts behind the wheel, especially when those shifts will include nineteen hours straight from Phoenix to Kansas City? Eric, of course. Will Eric regret it? Most definitely"--Dust jacket flap.

"An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering...

"Forget peanuts and Cracker Jacks! America's Ballparks now offer a dizzying array of edible options. These make-like stadium recipes give young chefs and sports fans a culinary road trip at home. From the famous fish tacos at the Giants's AT&T Park in San Francisco to the mouthwatering Cuban sandwich at the Tampa Bay Rays's Tropicana Field, these diamond dishes are perfect for any seventh-inning stretch."--

From the first ballpark converted from an ice rink in 1862 to the space-aged Houston Astrodome to the league's newest state-of-the-art stadiums, this book tells the history of baseball through its ballparks. As America changed so did its ballparks, and their various architectural forms helped shape the game we know today.

Attending a Yankee game with his family, Gideon wants an autograph from Derek Jeter, but when his autograph book goes missing, he finds the magic of the stadium leads him to adventure, his book, and Derek Jeter.

This book is a wonderful tour through every park in the "Major League", alongside dozens more stadiums from the minor leagues, negro leagues and baseball's past. Packed with hundreds of photographs and loaded with facts, stories and statistics, it's the ultimate resource for diehards and casual fans alike. -Taken from back cover.

"Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. Panzer spies state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York, sitting in the box seats. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet -- every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead...