This reference book provides an overview of the game of baseball and its history. It contains listings and definitions of over 800 baseball items - from the game's origins in the 1840s to the present day. The book is organized into eight chapters, each being fully cross-referenced.
David H. Martinez has worked as a worked as a radio reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, sports broadcaster for the University of California at Berkeley, and copywriter in the Silicon Valley for such companies as Apple Inc. and Logitech International. But his biggest love has always been baseball. A member of the sport's largest and most influential historical organization, the Society for American Baseball Research, Martinez reads extensively on the game and owns an expansive baseball library.
He is the author of three editions "The Book of Baseball Literacy" (Plume, 1996; iUniverse, 2000; Kindle ebook, 2011) a compendium of baseball lore for all varieties of fans. History professor Doug Bisson of Belmont University (Nashville, Tenn.) assigned the book to students of his summer course on baseball history. And reviewers praised it as "instructive and fun" (Chicago Sun-Times), "thoroughly enjoyable" (Booklist), and "A must for any baseball library" (Seth Swirsky, author of Baseball Letters and Every Pitcher Tells a Story). He is also the author of the short ebook "Baseball Detective: Unraveling the Mystery of the Batting Order."
Martinez earned his bachelor's degree in English at U.C. Berkeley, and he makes his home in San Jose, California, with his wife, daughter, and son.
