Batter up! With the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series and an entire country cheering them on, CBC Books has put together this reading list of baseball-themed books by Canadian authors.

Another baseball season, heavy with hope, begins on March 17 with the first of two games between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers in, of all the “we are the world” places, Tokyo. What is being called “traditional” Opening Day is set to ...

From the crack of the bat to the roar of the crowd, there’s nothing quite like baseball season. And with spring training for Major League Baseball well underway, fans are eager to once again cheer on their favorite team (Go Yankees!). Whether you’re ...

A great treat to share the Hitting the Books page with a fellow play-by-play announcer - in this case, Bob Carpenter, the television voice of the Nationals on MASN. As Bob says, the baseball history books by Harold Seymour that Bob presents were indeed on ...

Game One of the World Series starts Friday, and Phil Rosenzweig — a professor, author, and part-time Block Island resident — recently came out with “ One Splendid Season: Baseball and America in 1912 .”

The first full baseball game I ever saw was the 1967 All-Star Game, on television from Anaheim, California. It was really a terrible game. Some broadcasting genius had decided to start it at 4:15, Pacific Coast time to accommodate the East Coast audience ...

Have you ever wanted to be more like Bryce Harper? Well, you might not have been a teenage baseball prodigy, and you’re probably not being paid $330 million to play baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies through 2031. But you can read romance novels.

DETROIT (AP) — Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer: You can keep it — and no fine. Chuck Hildebrandt, 63, of Chicago said he visited the public library ...

DETROIT (AP) — Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer: You can keep it — and no fine. Chuck Hildebrandt, 63, of Chicago said he visited the public library ...