It's All About the Players
What I've Learned from Baseball's Best
$55.22
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
Hall of Fame baseball writer Peter Gammons dives deep into his encounters over the last six decades with the best in the sport, from players like Ted Williams, Cal Ripken, Ken Griffey Jr., Derek Jeter, and Shohei Ohtani to executives like Theo Epstein and Billy Beane, revealing a trove of behind-the-scenes stories about the fascinating and inspiring individuals at the heart of our national pastime.
Peter Gammons is the preeminent baseball writer of his generation, whose influence on t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781538777206 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1538777207 |
| Author: | Peter Gammons |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Baseball might be all about the players, but it is also all about the gifted writers who tell their stories, and no one has a richer lifetime of baseball stories than the legendary Peter Gammons. This book is a treasure trove.”
–David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Grace and Passion of Baseball’s Last Hero“Baseball, more than any other, is a game of storytellers, and Peter Gammons is our Mark Twain, Aesop, and Stephen King rolled into one. Open this book to any page and you’ll read a story that will make your heart soar. The title of this book is wonderful, but it’s not all about the players. It’s also about the special writers–none more special than Peter–who make those players come to life.”
–Joe Posnanski, author of Why We Love Baseball“Has anyone done more to elevate the appreciation of baseball than Peter Gammons? Chronicling the game with indefatigable insight and humor–to me, nothing was better than a full page of Gammons’ Sunday notes–he reinvented how the game was covered. It’s About the Players is a master’s joyful tribute to the essential characters of the sport he forever changed.”
–Jason Gay, Sports Columnist, The Wall Street Journal“I have spent my professional life inside baseball’s decision-making rooms, where evaluations, strategy, data, and innovation rule the day. But none of it works unless you understand the people involved. Peter has taught me that lesson over sixty years in this game. It has always been about the players. And there’s never been anybody better at telling their stories than Peter Gammons.”
–Theo Epstein, from the Foreword“There’s only one Peter Gammons, the greatest baseball writer who ever lived. There are so many amazing stories in his head that he needed to write this book just to share them. But because it’s Peter, he took that storytelling to the next level that only he knew existed. No writer I’ve ever been around could see into the eyes and souls for the players the way Peter always has.”
–Jayson Stark, from the Afterword“What has long separated Peter Gammons’s work, as the greatest baseball writer, is his lifetime habit of looking for the good in people. This is reflected in all of the extraordinary stories he tells in It’s All About The Players, his homage to the sport he has covered better than anyone.”
–Buster Olney, author of The Last Night of the Yankee DynastyPeter Gammons
Peter Gammons
Peter Gammons was born and raised in Groton, Massachusetts, and attended the University of North Carolina. He was hired by the Boston Globe in 1968 before finishing his senior year of college, and by 1972, he became the Red Sox beat writer. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1976 and eventually went to ESPN in 1990.
Gammons has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times, and while at ESPN, he was given the Baseball Hall of Fame’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award. He later worked for MLB Network and The Athletic. He also founded the annual Hot Stove Cool Music charity fundraiser in conjunction with the Foundation to Be Named Later and its Gammons Scholars. In its first decade through 2025, the Gammons Scholars program supported more than 300 underserved scholars who combined for a one percent college dropout rate.
Married for over 55 years to his wife Gloria, Gammons resides in Cape Cod.
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