Baseball
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the best-selling author of Baseball 100
“Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great Cincinnati Reds teams–especially the ’75 Reds–deserve a place of prominence in our memory, same as t
- Author: Posnanski, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0061582557
- Language: English
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Fenway 1946: Red Sox, Peace, and a Year of Hope
$31.58 Add to cartFenway 1946 celebrates the city, the team, and the spirit of that wonderful 1946 season in Boston–a season, as usual, that broke fans’ hearts–as America returned to peacetime pastimes. And none was
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067400
- Language: English
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
$19.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Best Seller
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected–a m
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Balukjian, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229827
- 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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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
$29.93 Add to cartJ. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the “turn the other cheek” compliant “credit to his race.” Examining this key figure at the cros… [more below]
- Series: Library of African American Biography
- Author: Schutz, J. Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1538110202
- 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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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$23.99 Add to cart“No athlete performed at a higher level through greater stress than Jackie Robinson.” -Scott Simon
The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and Ame- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 047126153X
- Language: English
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle.” —Seattle Times
In his classic tribute to America’s pastime, political comm
- Author: Will, George F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0061999814
- Language: English
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cart“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0061779008
- Language: English
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Baseball America 2023 Prospect Handbook
$39.95 Read moreThe 2023 Prospect Handbook is your guide to the next wave of MLB stars
The 2023 Prospect Handbook is your guide to the next wave of MLB stars. With complete scouting reports on more than 900 prospects- Author: The Editors at Baseball America
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1735548294
- Language: English
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The Ballplayer’s Son: Following the Footsteps and Escaping the Shadow of Big Moe Franklin
$19.99 Add to cartBy the time “The Brawl Heard ‘Round the World” blew up baseball on a hot Sunday in 1953, young Dell Franklin had been a regular in Pacific Coast League clubhouses for three years. His father, former m
- Author: Franklin, Dell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1955398089
- Language: English
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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball’s Greatest Heroes
$19.99 Add to cartAn exciting new collection of sublimely simple wisdom from a bestselling author, celebrated athlete, and a true American hero.
Three-time MVP and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra hit home runs twice in a row- Author: Berra, Yogi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0786887443
- Language: English
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And God Said, Play Ball!: Amusing and Thought-Provoking Parallels Between the Bible and Baseball
$16.99 Add to cartThis book manages to be entertaining and educational, as well as fanciful and inspirational. It draws from the lives of Jesus Christ and Yogi Berra, Joseph of Nazareth and Joe DiMaggio, Moses and Hank… [more below]
- Author: Graf, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0764814753
- 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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Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
$15.99 Add to cart“First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn’s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.” —Boston Globe
“A
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825875
- Language: English
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Get Up, Baby!: My Seven Decades with the St. Louis Cardinals
$30.00 Read moreAn unforgettable look at a lifetime of Cardinals baseball packed with Mike Shannon’s passion for the game
Mike Shannon’s voice served as the soundtrack of St. Louis Cardinals baseball for 50 years.- Author: Hummel, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379867
- Language: English
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100 Things Reds Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
$16.95 Add to cartIn this ultimate resource guide for true fans of baseball’s first professional team, author Joel Luckhaupt has collected every essential piece of Cincinnati Reds trivia, as well as must-do activities,… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things…Fans Should Know
- Author: Luckhaupt, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1600787940
- Language: English
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The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
$18.99 Add to cartTwo-time All Star Shawn Green shows how the surprising lessons the game has taught him transcend baseball and compose a life well lived.
Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of ba- Author: Green, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1439191204
- 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
