Baseball - History
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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime
$24.99 Add to cartBoston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three g… [more below]
- Author: Frost, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1401310265
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson
$10.00 Add to cartThe year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Rob
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846713
- Language: English
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The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball
$14.99 Add to cartRube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; the
- Series: History Shorts #2
- Author: Foster, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1621073807
- Language: English
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The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
$24.99 Add to cartAll kinds of spurious rumors had swirled around the 1919 World Series. Allegations about a fixed game between the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies on August 31, 1920, began a chain of events tha… [more below]
- Series: Images of Baseball
- Author: Helpingstine, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1467103764
- Language: English
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One Season in Rocket City: How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama
$29.95 Add to cartNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest
It’s 1984. Minor League Baseball mogul Larry Schmittou needs a new home for his Southern League Nashville Sounds franchise. Walt Jockett- Author: Tafoya, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496230736
- Language: English
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Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — And America — Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season–when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by nati- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821834
- Language: English
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The Franchise: New York Yankees: A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers
$28.00 Read moreIn The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball’s most successful team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the ast- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Feinsand, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379948
- Language: English
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New York Mets Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History
$22.95 Add to cartIn New York Mets Firsts, Brett Topel presents the stories behind the firsts in Mets history in question-and-answer format. More than a mere trivia book, Topel’s collection includes substantive answers
- Series: Sports Team Firsts
- Author: Topel, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068776
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Detroit Tigers Time Machine Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe Detroit Tigers have been marked neither by dynasties nor doldrums. The Tigers captured just four World Series championships since becoming a charter member of the junior circuit in 1901. They comp
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493060554
- Language: English
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The Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine Book
$18.95 Add to cartThe Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cardinals’ greatest moments, such as their eleven World Series titles, but also such notable Cardina
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067079
- Language: English
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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cart“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”–Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings
In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibs- Author: Pappu, Sridhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557286
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
$19.95 Add to cart2014 Baseball Caucus Readers’ Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association
The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan’s dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity a
- Author: Halfon, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235193
- Language: English
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Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
$16.95 Add to cartThe amazing true story of the men on Wyoming’s death row in the nineteen-teens who believed they’d be granted reprieves as long as they kept winning baseball games.
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0762787562
- Language: English
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Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
$23.99 Add to cartIn this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson’s crossing of baseball’s color line. Examining the… [more below]
- Author: Tygiel, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0195339282
- Language: English
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Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of Willie Mays’s rookie year with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is o
- Author: Klima, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0470400137
- Language: English
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Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unfor
- Author: Levitt, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985263268
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Phillies
$31.99 Add to cartThe Philadelphia Phillies, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, have maintained a strong, loyal fan base for over 125 years. Despite historic set backs, the franchise has proven resilient… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1531648835
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Angels in the Ozarks: Professional Baseball in Fayetteville and the Arkansas State / Arkansas-Missouri League 1934-1940
$14.99 Add to cartStep back in time to the summer of 1940, when professional baseball in Fayetteville, Arkansas met its untimely demise, leaving a void that has never been filled in the decades since. In this enchantin
- Author: Hogan, J. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1633737012
- Language: English
