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Subway
Series: A Year of New York Baseball by George Vecsey(Editor), New York Times(Editor)
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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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Memories
of Summer : When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game
by Roger Kahn
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Amazon.com As a youngster in Brooklyn, Roger Kahn loved the English language and he loved the game of baseball. And he later considered himself very lucky indeed to combine his two loves while getting paid for the pleasure. The author of the classic book on the Brooklyn Dodgers, The Boys of Summer, now... Read more |
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Bums:
An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter Golenbock
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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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Bunts
by George F. Will
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Amazon.com "Bunts," explains peripatetic political commentator and baseball rhapsodist George Will, "are modest and often useful things." So is his latest, fittingly titled foray into the National Pastime. Unlike his splendid Men at Work, which offered long, detailed exegeses on the way... Read more |
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Slouching
Toward Fargo : A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom
of the Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota by Neal Karlen
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Amazon.com Any baseball book beginning with a descriptive list of characters that includes a Benedictine nun, the hold-out college player of the year, a woman pitcher, a 300-pound pig, a seemingly washed-up Darryl Strawberry, a blind announcer, comedian Bill Murray, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, and the... Read more |
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Baseball
Shorts : 1,000 of the Game's Funniest One-Liners by Glenn Liebman
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Synopsis In this hilarious collection of baseball's funniest quips, everyone from players to coaches, umpires to celebrity fans sound off about our national pastime. Features all the game's legendary characters and current superstars--Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Deion Sanders, Rickey Henderson, and more. Read more |
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Baseball
Extra by Eric C. Caren
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Book Description An incredible collection of rare newspaper chart baseball's history from its beginnings in the mid-1800's to the 1999 World Series. Nowhere else could such a collection of diverse papers from all over the county be seen, including the Ball Player's Chronicle, the first publication devoted... Read more |
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Tales
from the Yankee Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Yankee Stories Ever
Told by Ken McMillan, et al
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Book Description Sit on the bench with Yogi and Casey, in the locker room with Mickey and Babe, and in the bullpen with Whitey and Sparkey. Tales from the Yankee Dugout is a compilation of the funniest, strangest and most unique stories, anedotes and tall tales that have been attributed to former person- alities... Read more |
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The
Great Book of Baseball Knowledge : The Ultimate Test for the Ultimate
Fan by David Nemec
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A reviewer, December 23, 1999
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 |
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You're
Out and You're Ugly, Too! : Confessions of an Umpire With Attitude
by Durwood Merrill, et al
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Amazon.com After decades of abuse and spittle, Major League umpire Durwood Merrill strikes back with some pretty incisive, funny, and no-holds-barred anecdotes. When his book stays in the game, it's a real hoot, light and folksy; how can you not laugh with a guy who can admit that "Folks around the... Read more |
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Baseball
Brain Teasers : Major League Puzzlers by Dom Forker, et al
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Presents puzzling or ambiguous baseball questions derived from real events, such as "Can two pitchers be in the same team's lineup at the same time?" and gives the answers based on the rule book. Read more |
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Baseball
: Play the Winning Way (Sports Illustrated) by Jerry Kindall, et al
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Book Description A state-of-the-art guide to baseball fundamentals from one of America's foremost collge coaches. Read more |
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The
Quotable Baseball Fanatic by Louis Decimus Rubin(Editor), et al
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Amazon.com 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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Fairball
[UNABRIDGED] by Bob Costas(Reader)
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Amazon.comThis isn't a commentator's diatribe against the sport, but rather a fan's case for baseball. What do I want? I think the same thing that most baseball fans want: To see the game prove worthy of our devotion. Bob Costas loves baseball. And he's worried about the state of the game--superstar players... Read more |
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Hit
and Run Baseball by Rod Delmonico, Ron Fraser(Designer)
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Peter Wermuth, December
20, 1999
Should be required reading for every baseball player Rod Delmonico tells you a lot of things in this book you probably have heared before. But then I'm sure even an experienced coach will find some great new hints. Also, I have never seen so much vital information about how to play the game of baseball put together in one place in such a consice and... Read more
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New
York City Baseball : The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957 by Harvey Frommer
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National Review "The best blow-by-blow description of the move west by the Dodgers and Giants to be found anywhere. Ought to be the last word on the subject." Read more |
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Women
at Play : The Story of Women in Baseball/ a Harvest Original by Barbara Gregorich
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Amazon.com Women's baseball did not begin--and certainly didn't end--with the 1940s short-skirted stars featured in the rousing film story A League of Their Own. Women were playing baseball at Vassar as early as the 1880s, and Ed Barrow, who would later bring Babe Ruth to New York, signed a woman pitcher named... Read more |
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Low
and Inside : A Book of Baseball Anecdotes, Oddities, and Curiosities
by Allen H. Smith, et al
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Tallulah Bankhead, The New
York Times "A fascinating and hilarious collection. It is something that should be sandwiched between Marcel Proust and Forever Amber on every bookshelf." Read more |
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The
Red Sox Reader by Dan Riley(Introduction)
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Book Description As John Cheever declared, "all literary men are Red Sox fans" -and certainly no baseball team has inspired more eloquence than the storied Sox. The best of those stories reside here, celebrating the team's highs, from the pennant races through the careers of Williams, Yaz, and Boggs, and eulogizing... Read more |
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Fathers
Playing Catch With Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) by Donald Hall
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Amazon.com "Half of my poet friends," confides Donald Hall, one of America's best poets and essayists, "think I am insane to waste my time writing about sports and to loiter in the company of professional athletes. The other half would murder to take my place." Either way, aficionados--both of games and... Read more |
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Baseball's
Book of Firsts by Lloyd Johnson
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Amazon.com Lloyd Johnson descends into the dusty catacombs of baseball's archives and emerges with a multitude of first-time happenings--some obvious, some not, and some simply surprising. Running from the sacred to the arcane, they range from categories like the first relief pitcher, the first pitcher caught... Read more |
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Tales
from the Ballpark : More of the Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told
(Shannon, Mike. Baseball Tales.) by Mike Shannon
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Synopsis Following his successful "Tales from the Dugout", Mike Shannon continues to delight baseball fans with memorable anecdotes from the sport's past and present. 20 illustrations. Read more |
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Baseball
and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Business of Our National
Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist
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, July 15, 1992 During the baseball strike of 1990, Zimbalist's disillusioned 11-year-old son suggested that his dad write a book on the economics of baseball. The happy result is this grand-slam study of America's only ``self-governing, unregulated monopoly,'' standing head-and-shoulders above Neil J. Sullivan's... Read more |
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Imagining
Baseball : America's Pastime and Popular Culture by David McGimpsey
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Man
on Spikes (Writing Baseball) by Eliot Asinof, Marvin Miller
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Amazon.com One of baseball writing's best utility men, Asinof is justly famed for Eight Men Out, his masterful exploration of the tragic events that led to the surreal stain of the 1919 Black Sox scandal; it is a deservedly enduring work of baseball nonfiction. Asinof's first literary at-bat, though, was in... Read more |
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