thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

* Ralph Andreano's 1965 book, No Joy in Mudville laments the dearth of heroes in modern baseball.

At first the book wasn't meant for fantasy baseball fans, but rather as a book of Sabrmetric analysis.

Much of the story of that season is told in pitcher Jim Bouton's classic baseball book, Ball Four.

Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

Many of his baseball essays were anthologized in his posthumously published book Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville ( 2003 ).

The book was the first of its kind to gain national media attention, although it was widely criticized and not accepted by most baseball organizations.

His 1964 book Percentage Baseball was the first book of baseball statistics studies to gain national media attention.

In 1970 he wrote a book on the subject, The Science of Hitting ( revised 1986 ), which is still read by many baseball players.

* 1992 winner of CASEY Award for best baseball book.

* 2008 winner of CASEY Award for best baseball book.

The book contains an early reference to baseball.

He also said in the book that he hoped his admissions would help end his ban from baseball so that he could reapply for reinstatement.

New York City librarian Robert W. Henderson documented Cartwright's contributions to baseball in his 1947 book Bat, Ball, and Bishop, which Congress cited in recognizing Cartwright as the inventor of the modern game.

The book brings pressure on Major League Baseball to recognize the African-American players from Negro league baseball by honoring its stars in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The work is a non-fiction baseball book that combines elements of humor, anecdotal storytelling, odd lists and historical trivia.

The earliest use of the word " jinx " to refer to something other than the bird seems to have been in the context of baseball ; in the short story The Jinx ( 12311 ) – later collected in the book The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond ( 1911 ) – Allen Sangree wrote:

Sports covered in depth are baseball, basketball, boxing, hockey and horse racing, all of which were popular sports in New York during the 50 years covered by the book.

In this adaptation ( based on the 1997 film, not the 1992 book ), the action is moved from London to Boston, the focus of the protagonist's obsession is shifted from football to baseball, and the story centres on the 2004 Boston Red Sox season, which culminated with the team's first Major League Baseball World Series victory in 86 years.

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy ( 1986 ), another book blending fantasy and magical realism, recounts an epic baseball game a minor league team played against the 1908 World's Champion Chicago Cubs.

In his book, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, baseball historian Bill James cited Durocher's method of using his regular players every day without any rest days as a factor in the Cubs ' collapse.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

Doom has appeared in several forms in addition to games, including a comic book, four novels by Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver ( loosely based on events and locations in the games ), a board game and even a live-action film starring Karl Urban and The Rock released in 2005.

A director's cut is a specially edited version of a film, and less often TV series, music video, commercials, comic book or video games, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit.

His paper was followed by his 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, with Oskar Morgenstern, which considered cooperative games of several players.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

His writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors worldwide, and Lovecraftian elements can be found in novels, films, movies, music, video games, comic books ( e. g. the use of Arkham Insane Asylum in The Batman comic book series ), and even cartoons.

The book contains the earliest known description of some of these games, including many games imported from the Arab kingdoms.

These games are discussed in the final section of the book at both an astronomical and astrological level.

The book describes the rules for a number of games in the tables family.

However, the focus of such programs sometimes excludes certain media — film, book publishing, video games, etc.

Topps has announced that the IDW comic book series is just the first in what is planned to be an all-new Mars Attacks universe that will expand into future trading card sets, toys, games and other entertainment.

Nomic actually refers to a large number of games based on the initial ruleset laid out by Peter Suber in his book The Paradox of Self-Amendment.

The Shadowrun role-playing game has spawned Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game, four video games, an action figure game ( Shadowrun Duels ), two magazines, an art book and more than 50 novels, starting with the Secrets of Power series which introduces some of the original characters of Shadowrun and gives a good introduction to this fictional universe.

Today SJG publishes games of numerous varieties ( card games, board games, strategy games ) and genres ( fantasy, sci-fi, gothic horror ); they also publish the book Principia Discordia, the sacred text of the Discordian religion.

In most games, the Sentinels are human-sized foes rather than the massive figures that are seen in most of their comic book appearances:

It contains several pieces of concept art from the series's conception to the release of Skyward Sword in 2011, multiple essays about the production of the games, and for the first time ever in Zelda history, the series's timeline was included in the book, confirming fan theories about a split in the timeline, as well as a third split, asking what would happen if Link was defeated in the final battle with Ganon in Ocarina of Time.

The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, video games, and television shows.

According to Max Boot's book War Made New ( 2006, pg 122 ), sometime between 1803 and 1809, the Prussian General Staff developed war games, with staff officers moving metal pieces around on a game table ( with blue pieces representing their forces and red pieces those of the enemy ), using dice rolls to indicate random chance and with a referee scoring the results.

The game was respected by the Naval War College and serving naval officers regularly participated in games For an evaluation of the Fletcher Pratt Game versus reality see Chapter 10 of The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book.