---
title: Baseball
description: Baseball is a team sport built on throwing, catching, hitting, and base running. This topic covers individual skill mechanics, defensive positioning, offensive strategies, and the official rules to help you play or coach the game.
category: sports-recreation
subcategory: team-sports
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/baseball
---

# Baseball

Baseball is a team sport built on throwing, catching, hitting, and base running. This topic covers individual skill mechanics, defensive positioning, offensive strategies, and the official rules to help you play or coach the game.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Driveline Baseball

Training company whose site publishes research, blog articles, and program breakdowns on pitching velocity, hitting mechanics, and arm care, much of it built on motion-capture and bat-sensor data. Sells paid programs alongside the free writing.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/

**Tags:** baseball, pitching, hitting-mechanics, strength-training, biomechanics

### 2. Baseball Savant

MLB's public Statcast site, with searchable pitch-by-pitch data, exit velocity and spin leaderboards, and per-player visualisations. Useful for checking how a hitter or pitcher actually performs rather than relying on traditional box-score statistics.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/

**Tags:** baseball, statcast, sabermetrics, baseball-data, mlb

### 3. baseball-reference.com

Baseball-Reference.com is a comprehensive baseball statistics database with detailed player, team, and league stats, game logs, season summaries, and historical records, plus bios and advanced metrics.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://baseball-reference.com

**Tags:** websites, sports-recreation, team-sports

### 4. fangraphs.com

FanGraphs is a comprehensive baseball analytics site offering advanced stats, projections, and leaderboards, along with in-depth articles and detailed player and team pages.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://fangraphs.com

**Tags:** websites, sports-recreation, team-sports

## Podcasts

### 1. Effectively Wild

**Author:** Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Ben Lindbergh (The Ringer), Meg Rowley (FanGraphs), and an array of guests talk about baseball with an analytical bent, covering a mix of timely topics from the serious to the absurd a few times per week.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://blogs.fangraphs.com

**Tags:** baseball, sabermetrics, mlb, analytics, interviews

## Books

### 1. Moneyball

**Author:** Michael Lewis

Account of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and general manager Billy Beane, who used undervalued statistics such as on-base percentage to compete against far richer clubs. Explains why sabermetric thinking spread through professional baseball front offices.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393324818?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, sports-recreation, team-sports

### 2. The Baseball Codes

**Author:** Jason Turbow, Michael Duca

Reported account of baseball's unwritten rules: retaliation pitches, bat flips, stealing signs, running up the score, drawn from player interviews. Explains why certain plays provoke fights that box scores never record.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/030727862X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, sports-recreation, team-sports

### 3. The Glory of Their Times

**Author:** Lawrence S. Ritter

Oral history assembled from taped interviews with players from the early twentieth century, recorded in the 1960s before that generation died out. Gives a first-hand picture of deadball-era travel, pay, and clubhouse life.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688112730?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, sports-recreation, team-sports

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