LINKS
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/
The American Experience series offers a gritty portrait of the real man
behind the legend. The program airs May 9, 2000, at 9pm on KQED TV9. The
companion Web site follows Joe DiMaggio's rise from backlot baseball to
American hero and looks at the dark side of living life center stage.
The Amateur Softball Association of America
http://www.softball.org/
As the National Governing Body of Softball, the ASA is responsible for
establishing uniform softball rules and regulations, but the top priority
of the ASA is to provide a structured and enjoyable environment for its
more than 3.7 million registered players, coaches and umpires.
The San Francisco Giants
http://www.sfgiants.com/home/sfg_homepage.html
The official Home Page of the San Francisco Giants.
The Oakland Athletics
http://www.oaklandathletics.com/
The official Home Page of the Oakland A's.
The University of San Francisco Dons
http://www.usfdons.com/
The official Web site of University of San Francisco Athletics.
BOOKS
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox
and the 1919 World Series
Eliot Asinof
Havana Heat
Darryl Brock
Fair Ball
Bob Costas
Underworld
Don DeLillo
Brothers K
David Duncan
Shakespeare on Baseball
David Goodnough
Wait Till Next Year
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Donald Hall
Full Count
Milton Jamail
Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook
Daniel E. Johnson
Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella
The Dreyfus Affair: A Baseball Love
Story
Peter Lefcourt
The Natural
Bernard Malamud
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro
Baseball Leagues
Patricia C. McKissack, Fredrick McKissack
Imagining Baseball
David McGimpsey
9 Innings Anatomy of a Baseball Game
Daniel Okrent
Catching Dreams
Frazier Robinson
The Great American Novel
Philip Roth
Giants Encyclopedia
Tom Schott
Fenway, A biography in words and pictures
Dan Shaughnessy
Baseball's Best Short Stories
Paul D. Staudohar, Editor
Every Pitcher Tells a Story
Seth Swirsky
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Baseball Anthology: 125 Years of
Stories, Poems, Articles, Photographs,
Drawings, Interviews, Cartoons, and Other Memorabilia
Joseph Wallace, Editor
FILMS
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942)
Director: Sam Wood
Gary Cooper stars in this biopic of baseball great Lou Gehrig.
The Stratton Story (1949)
Director: Sam Wood
The story of Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton starring Jimmy Stewart.
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Ray Milland stars as a scientist discovers a formula that makes a
baseball which is repelled by wood.
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Director: Robert Mulligan
Anthony Perkins stars in the true story of the life of Jimmy Piersall,
who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league
baseball.
Damn Yankees (1958)
Directors: George Abbott & Stanley Donen
The Devil makes a deal with a discouraged baseball fan in this rousing
musical.
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Director: John D. Hancock
Robert De Niro stars in the story of a New York pro baseball team
and two of its players.
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Director: Michael Ritchie
Tatum O'Neal and Walter Matthau lead the cast in this classic film from
the 1970s.
The Natural (1984)
Director: Barry Levinson
Robert Redford stars as an overage baseball player comes out of
seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine
talent.
Eight Men Out (1988)
Director: John Sayles
John Cusack stars in this dramatization of the Black Sox scandal
when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to
deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Major League (1989)
Director: David S. Ward
Charlie Sheen leads the cast as one of the misfits who make a run
for the American League Pennant.
A League of Their Own (1992)
Director: Penny Marshall
Geena Davis plays one of two sisters join the first female
professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst
their own growing rivalry.
The Babe (1992)
Director: Arthur Hiller
John Goodman stars in this film adaptation of Babe Ruth's biography.
Cobb (1994)
Director: Ron Shelton
Tommy Lee Jones stars as Ty Cobb in a story that reveals the life of
one of baseball's darkest legends.
The Kevin Costner Baseball Trilogy
Bull Durham (1988)
Director: Ron Shelton
Field of Dreams (1989)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
For Love of the Game (1999)
Director: Sam Raimi
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