'Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars' is the first book in the 'Baseball Joe' series. Written in 1912, the book is about a young man named Joe Matson, who had rece

Joe Matson has recently moved to Riverside with his family. The wide-awake country boy, who loves baseball, joins the Riverside's local nine and gets the positi

"It's All Part of the Game" dramatically recounts how, against the odds, "Sports Illustrated" grew from a misbegotten enterprise into a cultural institution. Fr

"No cellphones. No Google. Just pluck and wit." That's the way one modern critic describes these exciting tales from the early twentieth century, written for bo