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Durocher's
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Claerbaut, a sports psychologist, examines the history of the Chicago Cubs. He recounts the growth of the team under legendary manager Leo Durocher's guidance--the change from a losing attitude to a winning one--the glory days of 1969, and the late-season collapse in the face of the hard-charging... Read more |
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Barry
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Baseball
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| Amazon.com There are good teams, and there are great teams, and then there are teams that cross into legend where a case can be built for naming them the best team of all time. The Cubs of Tinker to Evers to Chance. The Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig, and later DiMaggio and Dickey, and, later still, Mantle and... Read more |
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The
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| Amazon.com Curt Smith takes a stunningly simple idea and executes it in an obvious format: assemble the Homers of baseball and let them rip. The result is an oral history of the game delivered with the crispness and color of the voices in the broadcast booth whose day--and night--job is to bring us the game.... Read more |
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You
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| Book Description An important element in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down". But what if the nail is a visiting American player? Here's a look at Japanese baseball, as seen by baffled Americans Read more |
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| Book Description A vivid and affecting memoir, by a writer and New York radio personality, about the game of his life, and life since the game. Read more |
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The
Autobiography of Baseball: The Inside Story from the Stars Who Played the
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| Amazon.com So, how does a whole sport write an autobiography? With wit, grace, and insight--thank you--if the sport has seen as much, lived as much, and contributed as much verbiage as America's national pastime. Wallace, who also assembled the beautiful Baseball Anthology, has collected bits and pieces of... Read more |
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Where's
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| From Kirkus Reviews Innocuous anecdotes and remembrances abound in this valentine to the legendary sports broadcaster Harry Caray. Stone worked alongside Caray for 15 years, offering color commentary for Chicago Cubs baseball games, until Caray's death in February 1998. Stone obviously enjoyed the experience, deferring... Read more |
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More
Than Merkle : A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in
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 A Good Book, But Certainly Not A Classic Another book written on a particular year. As the title suggests, there was more to the 1908 baseball season than the Merkle incident. The book reviews each major league team, the umpires, managers, and what fans were like during this Dead Ball era year. The author makes the case for the custom of... Read more
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The
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 Grand Minor League truly is Grand! In this book, Dick Dobbins took a cue from the book, "The Glory of Their Times," interviewing numerous ex PCL players and umpires about the league. This oral history of the league is an excellent look back. Reading this book takes you back to a different era of baseball and shows why the... Read more
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Crack
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| Book Description Crack of the Bat is a comprehensive and entertaining look at the most famous icon in the history of baseball, the "Louisville Slugger" bat. The story includes the evolution of bats from pioneer wagon tongues to the sleek aluminum models of today. It examines the amazing physics involved in hitting a... Read more |
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Only
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| Book Description Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel... Read more |
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| Book Description This is the volume baseball card collectors need to buy and sell smarter, and build collections theyll be proud to display. The 14th Edition of the Baseball Card Price Guide provides the most comprehensive checklist available for cards issued from 1981 - 2000 as analyzed by the hobbys leading team... Read more |
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| back cover Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy, rose from the dust and poverty of Tioga, Texas, to become an entertainment and corporate legend. Despite his Midas touch, however, Autry experienced mostly frustration with the one thing closest to his heart--his Los Angeles turned California turned Anaheim Angels of... Read more |
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Baseball:
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The
New Dickson Baseball Dictionary : A Cyclopedic Reference to More Than 7,000
Words, Names, Phrases, and Slang Expressions That Define the Game,
Its by Paul Dickson
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| Amazon.com Baseball is an etymologist's delight. The game coins words and phrases faster than Mark McGwire hits home runs (a.k.a. dingers, taters, round-trippers, four-baggers), and much of what begins as baseball-specific verbiage seeps into common usage. But why exactly is a high, lazy fly ball called "a can... Read more |
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The
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| Amazon.com Baseball may be just a game on the field, but off the field, its hold on the American heart, its place in American history, and its impact on American society are as powerful as a squad of clean-up hitters. For a pastime, this is serious stuff demanding serious reflection, and historian John P.... Read more |
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Chipper
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| Book Description The Braves franchise certainly isn't lacking in baseball legends. But, perhaps, the new century will bear witness to one of the greatest players in Braves history - Chipper Jones. Already the Braves third baseman has made an impact. In this book, those who know Jones best talk about his tremendous... Read more |
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Full
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| A reviewer, April
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Subway
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| Book Description Featuring an introduction by noted New York sports columnist George Vecsey, Subway Series documents the triumphs and struggles of the Yankees' and Mets' historic 2000 seasons, culminating in their momentous showdown in the World Series. All the excitement is here, brought to you in vivid pictures... Read more |
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Baseball's
Most Wanted : The Top 10 Book of Nat'L Pastime's Outrageous Offenders
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Don't
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Satchel Paige once said that all he had to do to get his arm in shape to pitch was shake hands with the catcher. Like most of Paige's oft-quoted public statements, this one reflects both self-promotion and folk wisdom. While Ribowsky does set the record straight, where possible, as to the facts of... Read more |
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1960:
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Bums:
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| Book Description Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers had already become part of baseball history, thanks to players such as Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, and Roy Campanella. Bums narrates the colorful history of this beloved team with recollections from the players, the writers who... Read more |
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The
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| Book Description From its storied baseball history in New York to its 40 years of thrills in San Francisco, The Giants Encyclopedia is the first book to capture the complete legend of the Giants. Among the players who are profiled are Hall of Famers such as Willie Mays, Mel Ott, and Barry Bonds. Read more |
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