Johnny Adcock is an aging Major League pitcher with the perfect retirement plan--he moonlights as a private investigator. Major League Baseball, as it turns out, is a prime source of employment for a philosophically inclined, discreet detective who has both the brains and the brawn to handle the unique problems of professional athletes. What sounds like the standard story of a pro athlete's marriage gone sour quickly turns into the most dangerous...

A portrait of the Detroit Tigers pitcher who died in a 2009 accident recounts his rise from small-town Massachusetts to the major leagues, the on-field eccentricities that endeared him to fans, and the injuries that cut his career short.

The Yahoo Sports lead columnist and author of Death to the BCS examines the franchise lifeblood role of pitchers in Major League Baseball and the considerable vulnerability of pitching arms, drawing on rare interviews with Daniel Hudson, Todd Coffey and Sandy Koufax to share insights into the impact of injuries on careers and teams.

A Mets and Yankees All-Star pitcher shares lessons from his seventeen-year career, detailing his passion, frustrations, and strategies, and offering stories from the memorable teams he played on.

"The memoir of a successful sports agent who went to India to run a televised pitching contest, teach the winners about baseball, and get them recruited by Major League Baseball--changing forever the lives of two young men and their families back home, as well as his own"--

" Shohei Ohtani has turned heads as the first professional baseball player since Babe Ruth to both pitch and hit. His speed, skill, and strength has made him a beloved player around the world. Find out more about his journey from growing up in Japan to becoming a worldwide baseball superstar"--

The author details his major league rookie season, revealing that for him, it isn't just about the game, but about the people and events in it.

"Pitch by Pitch gets inside Bob Gibson's head on the evening of October 2, 1968, when he took the mound in Game One of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers and struck out a record seventeen batters. Gibson, known as one of the most intimidating pitchers in baseball history, relives each inning and each pitch. Facing down batter after batter, Gibson shares his insights into every player that stepped into the batter's box against him that day--recounting...

The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.