Baseball - History
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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and t
$19.99 Read more“Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the ’86 Mets. You don’t have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book–it’s a great read for all baseball enthusiasts.” –Philadelphia Daily News
Award-winning Spo
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0062097636
- Language: English
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Summer of ’49
$18.99 Add to cart“Dazzling…A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a ‘simpler America’ ” —New York Times Book Review
David Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season, as seen through th
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0060884266
- Language: English
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Boston Red Sox Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History
$19.95 Add to cartIn Boston Red Sox Firsts, veteran Red Sox historian Bill Nowlin presents the stories behind the firsts in Red Sox history in question-and-answer format. More than a mere trivia book, Nowlin’s collecti
- Series: Sports Team Firsts
- Author: Nowlin, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073389
- Language: English
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$28.95 Add to cartHow baseball evolved with shocking speed from a casual folk game into a serious adult activity, an instrument of national unification and then a national entertainment industry.
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926770
- Language: English
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Yankees Legends Alphabet
$19.95 Read moreFrom A-Rod to Derek Jeter, The Sandman to The Babe, Yankees Legends Alphabet is a grand slam home run examining the greatest ballplayers ever to lap the bases in New York. Grab your wooden bat and you… [more below]
- Author: Feiner, Beck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0645200190
- Language: English
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Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball’s First Century
$9.49 Add to cartThe most unlikely Hall of Famer
Dave Bancroft should not be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He emerged from his Iowa hometown as an undersized shortstop without batting skills. Signed by one of the 300-
- Author: Alesia, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 057837451X
- Language: English
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Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
$32.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 CASEY Award
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers’ opening-day
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest- Author: Sherman, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231015
- Language: English
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
$19.99 Add to cart“Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer
“This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissue
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Ritter, Lawrence S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0061994715
- Language: English
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Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
$19.99 Add to cartA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond base… [more below]- Author: Nusbaum, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541742222
- Language: English
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The Great Book of Baseball: Interesting Facts and Sports Stories
$11.99 Add to cartFor the real sports fan this is a must-read book. It is perhaps the biggest collection of facts and what some might call fiction, since some of the sports stories have been passed on for generations.
- Series: Sports Trivia #VOL.
- Author: O’Neill, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1648450199
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Texas Rangers Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Rangers Fans!
$11.85 Add to cartCalling all Texas Rangers fans!
The Ultimate Texas Rangers Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Lone Stars. You will be tested on your knowledge of mind-blowing
- Author: Walker, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1953563953
- Language: English
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
$37.50 Add to cartAn exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Puli… [more below]
- Author: Goldberger, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0307701549
- Language: English
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! the True Story Revealed
$18.95 Add to cartThe fascinating, true, story of baseball’s amateur origins. “Explores the conditions and factors that begat the game in the 19th century and turned it into the national pastime….A delightful look at
- Author: Gilbert, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927238
- Language: English
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Willie Horton: 23: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers’ First Black Great
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling autobiography from one of Detroit’s favorite sons
At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 20, he smacked his first major-leagu- Author: Horton, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379786
- Language: English
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Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years
$44.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 CASEY Award
Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years explores the history of organized ba
2024 SABR Seymour Medal
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest- Author: Gietschier, Steven P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235371
- Language: English
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Baseball 100
“A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a nation and persevered to become a beloved figure…One of the best baseball books in years, filled with
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0060854049
- Language: English
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The Franchise: Chicago Cubs: A Curated History of the North Siders
$28.00 Read moreIn The Franchise: Chicago Cubs, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history of the- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Miles, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 163727002X
- Language: English
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The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series–a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, fille… [more below]
- Author: Kepner, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0385546254
- Language: English
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Incredible Baseball Trivia: More Than 200 Hardball Questions for the Thinking Fan
$14.99 Add to cartYankee fan? Red Sox fan? Dodger fan? Do you think you know everything about baseball from the Black Sox to the White Sox? Then test yourself . Every era of is represented from Cap Anson to Mike Trout,… [more below]
- Author: Nemec, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1683582322
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard BoSox Fans!
$9.85 Add to cartAre you a die-hard Red Sox fan?
Now you surely will be with The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Trivia Book. If you want to know all the ins and outs (every great baseball team has a few!) of one of the most
- Author: Walker, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1953563171
- Language: English
