We know times are hard, and we know everyone is getting a little stir crazy. We also know most of you have more time for reading, so we’ve launched price breaks on every baseball and football book from August Publications — including The Baseball Thesaurus and Cradle of the Game. (more…)
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Our All-Star Baseball Book Sale Ends Sunday!
Enhance your diamond knowledge by buying one of the titles on sale during our All-Star Baseball Book Sale, with 50 percent off every baseball title. The sale, which includes The Baseball Thesaurus, Cradle of the Game and Never a Bad Game, ends Sunday. (more…)
Baseball Across America: Hannibal
Editor’s Note: Mark Cryan, former MiLB general manager and Ballpark Digest contributing editor, is embarking on an epic ballpark tour this summer, and he’ll be filing regular dispatches from the road. Today’s stop: Hannibal’s Clemens Field. (more…)
Baseball Across America: St. Louis
Editor’s Note: Mark Cryan, former MiLB general manager and Ballpark Digest contributing editor, is embarking on an epic ballpark tour this summer, and he’ll be filing regular dispatches from the road. Today’s stop: St. Louis’s Busch Stadium. (more…)
Baseball Across America: Johnson City
Editor’s Note: Mark Cryan, former MiLB general manager and Ballpark Digest contributing editor, is embarking on an epic ballpark tour this summer, and he’ll be filing regular dispatches from the road. Day Two: a trip to Johnson City’s Howard Johnson Field. (more…)
Baseball Across America: Greeneville
Editor’s Note: Mark Cryan, former MiLB general manager and Ballpark Digest contributing editor, is embarking on an epic ballpark tour this summer, and he’ll be filing regular dispatches from the road. Day One: a trip to Greeneville’s Pioneer Park. (more…)
Baseball and the road: The American Dream
Editor’s Note: Mark Cryan, former MiLB general manager and Ballpark Digest contributing editor, is embarking on an epic ballpark tour this summer, and he’ll be filing regular dispatches from the road. Today: An overview of his journeys. (more…)
Book reading: Mark Cryan at Quail Ridge Books
If you’re in the Raleigh-Durham area, you’re in for a treat: Mark Cryan will be at Quail Ridge Books tomorrow night (April 9) at 7 p.m. to discuss his book Cradle of the Game: Baseball and Ballparks of North Carolina. (more…)
Tis the season for baseball books, part I
It’s Cyber Monday — which means plenty of you are out shopping for baseball books. Here’s a shameless plug for baseball books and more from Ballpark Digest and August Publications. (more…)
Available now: Cradle of the Game
We’re now shipping the second edition of Cradle of the Game: Baseball and Ballparks in North Carolina by Mark Cryan and a foreword by Miles Wolff. You can read a full description at the August Publications website, but here’s a summary from Cryan’s intro: Today, crowds continue to gather to see history-rich teams like the […]
New for 2014: Cradle of the Game, 2e
We have a new book announcement: Cradle of the Game, 2e. North Carolina has a rich baseball history, and this book by Mark Cryan tells that story through the state’s ballparks. The Tar Heel State has a special place in the baseball world; it’s a place where affiliated teams play at almost every level — […]
Reviving Devereux Meadows
The old Devereux Meadows ballpark site in Raleigh, N.C., home to the Raleigh Capitals and the Raleigh-Durham Triangles (Carolina League), could be revived as a city park. The former home to minor-league baseball in Raleigh — where Carl Yastrzemski, Greg Luzinski and Cliff Johnson targeted a left-field fence some 315 feet out (the same as […]