| About Three Bricks Shy . . . And the Load Filled Up | Roy Blount Jr. | This is the thirtieth-anniversary edition of a book long considered a classic and one of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. The story of the 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers--a team that was super, but missed the bowl.
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| Honus Wagner | Dennis DeValeria | Neither the “rowdy-ball” ruffian nor the teetotal saint constructed of legend, Wagner is presented here in a complete portrait—one that offers a vivid impression of the era when baseball was America’s game and the nation was evolving into the world’s industrial leader. |
| One for the Thumb | Randy Roberts | A collection of the best sports writing about the fabled franchise, One for the Thumb is the definitive anthology of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Includes the 2005 Super Bowl season. A must-read for all fans of the team and the game of football. |
| Pirates Reader | Richard Peterson | The Pirates Reader is a tribute to the Pittsburgh Pirates, their fans nationwide, and to the franchise's rich history of baseball—Richard Peterson has collected the writing of baseball's greatest storytellers. Included are early pioneers of sports journalism, such as Henry Chadwick, the father of baseball statistics, and Alfred H. Spink, founder of The Sporting News. |
| Pittsburgh Sports | Randy Roberts | Pittsburgh Sports mixes the personal experiences of fans and athletes with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan--in Pittsburgh, or, by extension, anywhere. |
| Spring Training | William Zinsser | Spring Training is a look back at the Pittsburgh Pirates' 1988 spring training season in Bradenton, Florida that reveals how the fundamentals of baseball are taught and learned. The author has added a new introduction and postscript, which includes a lengthy interview with manager Jim Leyland about the lessons that can be learned from losing. |
