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Subway Series: A Year of New York Baseball
by George Vecsey(Editor), New York Times(Editor)

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New York Times
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(December 13, 2000)
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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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Paperback - 304 pages
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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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(April 1, 2000)
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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

29.
Bunts
by George F. Will

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Paperback - 352 pages
1 touchsto edition (March 1999)
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"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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Spike
Paperback - 384 pages
(March 2000)
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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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NTC/Contemporary Publishing
Hardcover - 240 pages
(April 1, 1994)
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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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Hardcover - 437 pages
(October 2000)
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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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Sports Publishing, Inc.
Hardcover - 224 pages
(April 2000)
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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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Masters Pr
Paperback - 288 pages
(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

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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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St Martins Pr (Trade)
Mass Market Paperback - 328 pages
(April 1999)
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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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Sterling Publications
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(April 1986)
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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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Sports Illustrated
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(August 1993)
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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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The Lyons Press
Hardcover - 370 pages
1 Ed edition (April 2000)
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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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Fairball [UNABRIDGED]
by Bob Costas(Reader)

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This 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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Paperback - 168 pages
(March 1992)
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Peter Wermuth, December 20, 1999 5 out of 5 stars
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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Harcourt Brace
Paperback - 219 pages
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"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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(March 1993)
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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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Paperback - 256 pages
(April 2000)
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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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Mariner Books
Paperback - 288 pages
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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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Paperback - 198 pages
(April 1998)
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"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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Courage Books
Hardcover - 176 pages
(April 1999)
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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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Hardcover - 256 pages
(July 1999)
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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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(February 1994)
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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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Indiana Univ Pr
Hardcover - 208 pages
(April 2000)
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Man on Spikes (Writing Baseball)
by Eliot Asinof, Marvin Miller

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(April 1998)
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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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