Books with author Michael Leach

This lovely new title follows the life cycle of a hedgehog, from a hoglet's first steps out of its den to finding a mate. You can also find out about some of the different habitats that are the hedgehog's home, the threats facing hedgehogs today, and why some people see them as pests. You can also be an animal detective and find out how you can tell if a hedgehog has been in your neighbourhood. This book also includes an animal map, locator map, life cycle summary, and unusual fact boxes.

Go deep inside the game with Seamheads.com founder and SABR stalwart Mike Lynch. Amazing stories about the players, managers, and owners that will educate and fascinate even the most ardent students of the game. From “cup of coffee” cases--some tragic, some incredible--to owners who make Marge Schott look like a saint--to tales of some of the strangest lives and careers ever seen in big league baseball. •What was behind the mysterious death of Astros’ ace Don Wilson?•Who collected over 3000 hits and 300 homeruns—in the minor leagues?•Why did Gary Carter, the Expos’ greatest player, get exiled from Montreal?•What is so cool about Virgil Trucks, other than his name? •Why was 19th Century Hall of Fame star Bill Dahlen known as “Bad Bill”?BUH: The People is part secret history, part scholarship, and 100% baseball fun.

“You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [Moneyball]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park.” ―Janet Maslin, New York Times Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. He signs undervalued players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base, scoring runs, and winning games. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball and a tale of the search for new baseball knowledge―insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Seamheads' Mike Lynch turns his keen eye for the amazing and unusual to baseball's biggest stage, the World Series, in Volume II of his acclaimed Baseball's Untold History Series. Read about the least likely heroes, biggest MVP flops, the oddest World Series stat lines, and an all-time O-fer line-up. Meet the 16-game winner who spent the series in an insane asylum; the Hall of Famer who was arrested for scalping World Series tickets; the only player to be picked off twice in the same Fall Classic game; the hurler who belted the only home run of his long professional career in his first series at bat; and much, much more.