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The Great Book of Baseball Knowledge : The Ultimate Test for the Ultimate Fan
by David Nemec

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(June 1999)
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A reviewer, December 23, 1999 5 of 5 stars
Hooray for the 19th century material!

I have to take exception to the last reviewer even though I'm not really a big fan of the 19th century either. This book takes you on a complete journey throughout baseball history unlike most similar type books that would have you believe everything that happened before 1900 doesn't count. Sure it... Read more

77.
Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? : Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
by Bill James

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(April 1995)
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4.5 out of 5 stars

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Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall, probing its history, its politics and, most... Read more

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Baseball's Last Dynasty : Charlie Finley's Oakland A's
by Bruce Markusen

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4 out of 5 stars
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The Oakland A's won five division titles, three American League pennants, and three World Series from 1971 through 1975--a run unequaled in baseball since. Markusen, a senior researcher at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, presents a compelling case for classifying the A's of the '70s as a... Read more

79.
Brooklyn's Dodgers : The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
by Carl E. Prince

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This slim, illustrated volume makes a fascinating attempt at capturing in theoretical, sociological terms the love affair between the Dodgers--the team of Branch Rickey and Duke Snider, of Pee Wee Reese and, above all, Jackie Robinson--and the homely, family-oriented, working-class borough of... Read more

80.
My Life in Baseball : The True Record
by Ty Cobb, et al

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Paperback - 283 pages
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4.5 out of 5 stars

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One of sports literature's great whitewashes and cover-ups, Ty Cobb's autobiography is anything but the "true record" of its titular claim. Cobb was as haunted and complex a man as has ever sharpened a pair of spikes, and, in his 70s, when he sat down to tell his story, he simply didn't want the... Read more

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Total Mets 2000 (Total Baseball Companions)
by Gary Gillette(Editor), et al

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Total Sports
Mass Market Paperback - 96 pages
(May 2000)
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Each Total Baseball Companion is the official resource on one major league team. The statistics, history, and analysis that make Total Baseball a fixture in fans' libraries can now be found in 30 books that can fit into a back pocket. Each Companion includes a breakdown of a team's 1999 season and a... Read more

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The Glory of Their Times : The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
by Lawrence S. Ritter(Primary Contributor), et al

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The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, Glory sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories... Read more

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The Sporting News Selects...... : Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments
by Ron Smith(Compiler), Joe Morgan

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Sporting News
Hardcover - 186 pages
(October 1999)
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Given The Sporting News's criteria for a Greatest Moment--a dramatic, nail-biting situation; an out-of-the-blue happening; or the culmination of a record chase--the list of 25 they send to the plate may be predictable, but so what? These are moments of such myth and import--not surprisingly, most... Read more

84.   Indians Illustrated : 100 Years of Cleveland Indians Photos
by Mark Stang

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Hardcover - 208 pages
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Sporting News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers
by Tony DeMarco

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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Co.
Hardcover - 188 pages
(March 1, 2000)
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3.5 out of 5 stars

Douglas Hardee, April 14, 2000 4 out of 5 stars
Power is Forever
Baseball is in the midst of an all out power hitting surge with more home runs being hit than ever before, and this new book by the Sporting News is perfectly timed to take advantage of our current facination with the long ball. This book is also one that the generations can enjoy together.. My son... Read more


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Wrigleyville : A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs
by Peter Golenbock

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Paperback - 592 pages
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4 out of 5 stars

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The Chicago Cubs have had a 50-year reign as baseball's lovable losers, but this chronicle of their tear-stained history is a winner all the way. Popular sports historian Golenbock covers the origins of the team, including its early, often successful years, and gradually segues into the post^-World... Read more

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Fear Strikes Out : The Jim Piersall Story
by Jimmy Piersall, et al

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Paperback - 221 pages
(April 1999)
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Once again, the Bison Books imprint of the University of Nebraska Press has reached into baseball's past and returned with a Hall of Fame read. Fear Strikes Out is one of the game's most dramatic autobiographies. It is also one of the most important. When first published in 1955, it ventured into... Read more

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The Dodgers - Giants Rivalry 1900 - 1957
by Marvin A. Cohen

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Paperback - 236 pages
(April 28, 2000)
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The Dodgers Giants Rivalry 1900 - 1957 is a trip down baseballs memory lane. The Dodgers Giants rivalry was unique in that both teams were in the National League and, therefore, met twenty-two times during the regular season. This book recalls the action on a year-to-year basis and includes... Read more

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At Fenway : Dispatches from Red Sox Nation
by Dan Shaughnessy

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Paperback - 241 pages
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4 out of 5 stars

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Boston Globe sportswriter Shaughnessy is a lifelong New Englander, so when he writes about the Red Sox, as he did so well in The Curse of the Bambino (1990), he provides the unique perspective of a long-suffering hometowner. While Bambino was a stylized history of the Beantown team, At Fenway is a... Read more

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Babe Ruth Slept Here : The Baseball Landmarks of New York City
by Jim Reisler

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(December 1998)
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A reviewer, November 9, 1999 4 out of 5 stars
A "must" read for serious baseball fans.
Having borrowed the book from a friend and having read it with great pleasure, it has been placed on my Christmas wish list. It will provide me with a guide on future tours into New York to see the many sites related to baseball events that Reisler has done such an excellent job of describing. Read more


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Legal Bases : Baseball and the Law
by Roger I. Abrams

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Hardcover - 240 pages
(June 1998)
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Baseball may be just a game on the field, but it's a a complex web of contracts and consolidations off of it; from the moment William Hulbert invoked the power of the legal system to unite a disparate group of clubs into the National League in 1876, the law and the game have turned into fascinating... Read more

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Eight Men Out : The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
by Eliot Asinof, Stephen Jay Gould(Introduction)

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Paperback - 302 pages
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The Boston Globe
"As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." Read more

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The Quotable Baseball Fanatic
by Louis Decimus Rubin(Editor), et al

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Hardcover - 370 pages
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Leave it to that eminent philosopher Yogi Berra to put the national pastime in perspective: "It ain't like football," he once noted. "You can't make up no trick plays." Maybe it's just that physical straightforwardness that has led to so much written and verbal razzle-dazzle on the game. Yogi's is... Read more

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The Curse of the Bambino
by Dan Shaughnessy

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Paperback - 240 pages
(October 3, 2000)
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3.5 out of 5 stars

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The best history of the snake--bitten Boston Red Sox ever penned. Read more

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The Baltimore Orioles : Four Decades of Magic from 33rd Street to Camden Yards
by Ted Patterson, Brooks Robinson

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Paperback - 254 pages
(April 2000)
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Never Forget Your Roots - A 33rd Street Memory
The memories of watching Orioles games on TV and in old Memorial Stadium came back to life as I read this book. Those long time Orioles fans can re-live great games of the past as they spend a moment, trying to forget that our old friend on 33rd Street will be torn down next year. Rich in history... Read more


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Long Balls, No Strikes : What Baseball Must Do to Keep the Good Times Rolling
by Joe Morgan, Richard Lally

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Hardcover - 288 pages
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The 1998 season was a year of wonders, to be sure, but attendance remained lower than it was before the '94 strike, 14 clubs suffered box-office declines, and the TV ratings for the World Series were in the tank. "Baseball is back," Hall-of-Fame second baseman Joe Morgan observes, "but it's not back... Read more

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The Year the Red Sox Won the Series : A Chronicle of the 1918 Championship Season
by Ty Waterman(Editor), et al

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Hardcover - 320 pages
(April 1999)
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5 out of 5 stars

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When Babe Ruth pitched and slugged the Boston Red Sox to a six-game World Series victory over the Chicago Cubs in 1918, there was every expectation that the team would continue to dominate the national pastime. Over eighty years later, long-suffering Red Sox fans are still waiting for another... Read more

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Summer of '98 : When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America
by Mike Lupica

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Hardcover - 209 pages
(May 1999)
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Total Red Sox 2000 (Total Baseball Companions)
by Gary Gillette(Editor), et al

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(May 2000)
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Each Total Baseball Companion is the official resource on one major league team. The statistics, history, and analysis that make Total Baseball a fixture in fans' libraries can now be found in 30 books that can fit into a back pocket. Each Companion includes a breakdown of a team's 1999 season and a... Read more

100.   The Cardinals Encyclopedia (Baseball Encyclopedias of North America)
by Mike Eisenbath, Stan Musial

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(June 1999)
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A reviewer, October 3, 1999 5 out of 5 stars
I think this book is a good buy for any baseball fane.
First, a disclaimer: I am a fellow member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports staff with Mike Eisenbath, the book's author. Second, a disclaimer of the disclaimer: Anyone who knows me knows that I have never hesistated to criticize a fellow staff member. On to the review: Here are five good... Read more


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