Exploring Jackie Robinson

A work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based. The story, which is about so much more than baseball, begins on October 3, 1951, the decisive game in the race for the pennant between the legendary Giants and Dodgers.

Near Spotsylvania, Virginia, a Union troop discovers a baseball field and a Confederate troop emerges from the woods ready to play a game.

More than a novel about baseball, this is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer. A real tearjerker, even for the most cynical baseball fans.

Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap the author, J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game. The basis for the hit movie Field of Dreams.

The career of an inept but impetuous baseball pitcher is recorded in letters to a friend.

Washed-out pitcher Charlie Stoddard is called back to the majors after the Red Sox lose two starting pitchers, but he hopes to turn around his personal life as well--a much more difficult challenge.

A girl shoots Roy Hobbs, 19, at the beginning of his promising baseball career. Made into a hit film with Robert Redford, and a very dramatic soundtrack.

In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.

Hotshot young college pitcher Jack Faber returns after a stint in a summer baseball league to find a new baseball coach who resents his success, cockiness, and talent and who sets out to destroy Jack's confidence in himself and his pitching ability.