Grinders: Baseball’s Intrepid Infantry is a collection of baseball life stories by broadcaster Mike Capps and former major league pitcher Chuck Hartenstein  It profiles more than forty journeymen, roster fillers and cup-of-coffee callups — the players without superstar talent who fill out every roster at every level, and whose careers ran on will instead. It’s a tribute to the game’s unheralded foot soldiers who took the hard knocks road, bouncing between the Show and obscurity, never quite achieving their dreams, all for a chance to play the game they love.

Play Like He Would is a true story by Heath Hamrick about the Bremond Tigers, a Texas high school football team that lost sixteen-year-old Jason Yancy to an undiagnosed heart condition during a game in October 1999. Hamrick, the coach’s son, was in the stadium that night, and built the book from interviews conducted in the weeks afterward. After Yancy’s death, his teammates faced an impossible question: How do you continue after losing your heart? This true story follows the Bremond Tigers as they honor their fallen friend’s memory with a simple motto: “Play Like He Would.”

Rickwood: How America’s Oldest Ballpark Forged Baseball’s Legends is Tim Whitt and Joe Mock’s history of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama — the oldest professional ballpark in the country. It runs from Rick Woodward, who built it in 1910, through the players who came through it: Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, Reggie Jackson.