Tim L Wiles

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in Americas culture and psyche. Researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement to the Maj...

Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Writing Baseball)

“We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, “or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next. Maybe that’s what poets do, too.” Poetry and baseball are occasi...

Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game

It may be America’s game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable information has been in short supply—until now, when Baseball before We Knew It brings fresh new evidence of baseball’s origins into play. David Block looks into t...

Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" BK/CD

The authorized tie-in book to the 100th anniversary of this beloved song. ""Take Me Out to the Ball Game"" is the third most frequently sung song in America, after ""Happy Birthday"" and ""The Star-Spangled Banner,"" and you'd be hard-pressed to find an American who doesn't know the words. With the ...

MLB Insiders Club Magazine (Vol. 3, Issue 4 - Going Into Overdrive)

Baseball periodical, published 5x / year.

Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Writing Baseball) [Paperback] [2002] (Author) Professor Brooke Horvath PhD, Mr. Tim Wiles, Elinor Nauen