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Red
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| Amazon.com Oh, to be a Red Sox fan. It is a mark of the singular angst that attends the territory that the four retired numbers--9 (Ted Williams), 4 (Jimmie Foxx), 1 (Bobby Doerr), and 8 (Carl Yastrzemski)--taunt the faithful every game from their perch on Fenway's right-field facade; they precisely correspond... Read more |
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Red
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| Amazon.com It was Smith who once deemed 90 feet between bases the most perfect measurement in the universe. Those who feasted on his columns in, most notably, The New York Herald-Tribune and The New York Times until his death in 1982 would have no trouble ascribing the same measurement of perfection to his... Read more |
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The
Head Game : Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn, Murray Tinkelman(Illustrator)
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| Amazon.com Inside the great expanse of a ballgame is the essential core of what Roger Kahn, one of the national pastime's most esteemed chroniclers, calls "chess at 90 miles per hour." That core, of course, is the duel between pitcher and hitter. At its best--which is where Kahn wants to play--it's as... Read more |
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Ballpark
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| Amazon.com Fenway. Wrigley. Ebbets Field. These are the real fields of dreams. Sporting News senior editor Ron Smith pays tribute to 46 current and former major league ballparks in The Ballpark Book. Smith divides the parks into "Classics" (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, and Yankee Stadium), the "Middle Ages"... Read more |
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Past
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| Amazon.com In Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy and the follow-up Jackie Robinson Reader, Jules Tygiel focused his historian's eye on what was arguably baseball's most stunning single event. Dissecting it from every angle, he followed its consequences through the weft of the national... Read more |
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Baseball
Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time by Rob Neyer, Eddie Epstein
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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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Take
Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Guide to Baseball Parks Past &
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| New York Daily News A valuable and welcome companion…TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLPARK celebrates the glory in the buildings and grounds where America's game has been played. Read more |
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Baseball
: The Biographical Encyclopedia by David Pietrusza(Editor), et al
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| Amazon.com Baseball wonks rejoice! Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is here with information about the men behind the magic numbers 755, 70, 56, 1.12, and 4,256. This weighty tome presents 2,000 capsule biographies of players, Negro Leaguers, umpires, executives, minor leaguers, owners, and... Read more |
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A
Season on the Brink : A Year With Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
by John Feinstein
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| Amazon.com Why is A Season on the Brink the bestselling sports book of all time? The answer is easy: Bobby Knight. Audaciously brilliant, exasperatingly volatile, and never boring, the Indiana University basketball coach is Greek drama and comedy neatly wrapped in a red sweater. Like all high-strung people,... Read more |
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Fenway
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| Amazon.com A religious shrine or a giant pinball machine? Museum or amusement park? Historical or hysterical? These are just some of the puzzlers posed by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaugnessy in this lovely homage to the second oldest, single most complex ballpark in the majors. The answers are debatable.... Read more |
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Baseball:
100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by Joseph E. Wallace, et al
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| Amazon.com Carlton Fisk willing the ball to stay fair to win game six of the 1975 World Series. Publicity-friendly Bill Veeck sending 3-foot, 7-inch-tall Eddie Gaedel to bat--wearing the number 1/8--in 1951. Jackie Robinson playing his first game with the Dodgers on April 5, 1947. These events make up only a... Read more |
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The
Spirit of st Louis : A History of St. Louis Cardinals and Browns
by Peter Golenbock
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Derek
Jeter: A Yankee for the New Millennium by Joe Torre(Contributor), et al
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| Book Description He is, perhaps, the most popular modern player in pinstripes. And many consider him a Yankees legend in the making. Derek Jeter has taken New York by storm and is expected to lead the World Champions into the new millennium. What better way to get to know Jeter than by reading the thoughts of... Read more |
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The
Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played
It by Lawrence S. Ritter
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| Amazon.com 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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Tales
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| From Kirkus Reviews Brooklyn's beloved Oisk recalls life in Ebbetts Field and after.Erskine was a pitcher for the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers teams of the '40s and '50s, a 12-year major-league veteran who logged 122 victories, including a pair of no-hitters. As one of the famed Boys of Summer, he appeared in six World... Read more |
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America's
Game : A 3 Dimensional Interactive Book by Tim Kurkjian
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| Amazon.com Conceptually, visually, informationally, and just for the tactile fun of it, America's Game touches 'em all. The idea behind it is breathtakingly simple; Tim Kurkjian, longtime contributor to Sports Illustrated and ESPN's Baseball Tonight, takes us on a tour of some of the more interesting artifacts... Read more |
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The
Joy of Keeping Score : How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the
History of Baseball (Harvest Book) by Paul Dickson
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| Amazon.com There are two reasons to head out to the ballpark. One is to passively watch the game, the other is to actively see it, and you can't do the latter without a scorecard. In this slim gem of a volume, Paul Dickson clearly explains and translates the quirky documentation system, which looks like... Read more |
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Eight
Men Out : The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (The Black Sox and the
1919 World Series) by Eliot Asinof, Stephen J. Gould(Introduction)
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| The Boston Globe "As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." Read more |
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Baseball
America's the Baseball Autograph Collector's Handbook by Jack Smalling, R. J. Baseball America's b Smalling
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| Book Description Find Out From An Expert How To Build Your Autograph Collection! Previously known as the Baseball Address List, this is an indispensable reference for autograph hounds or anyone who wants to correspond with major leaguers past and present. Author Jack Smalling has also included the dates and places... Read more |
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The
Mental ABC's of Pitching : A Handbook for Performance Enhancement
by H. A. Dorfman
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| Peter Gammons, ESPN Baseball
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All
Roads Lead to October : Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign over the New York
Yankees by Maury Allen
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| Amazon.com If there's a sports tale ripe for the telling, it's George Steinbrenner's stewardship of the Yankees. But where to center? On the tumult, the terror, the absurdity, or the glory? In All Roads Lead to October, Maury Allen refracts the broad spectrum. Wandering genially from story to story and era to... Read more |
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Baseball's
Forgotten Heroes : One Fan's Search for the Game's Most Interesting Overlooked
Players by Tony Salin
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 the author's dedication shows throughout This is a book written by someone with a lot of love for the game of baseball. It will mostly benefit others with the same love: Salin has found sufficiently obscure figures that I had only heard of half of them. Where feasible, he lets them tell their own stories, thus preserving their style of... Read more
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My
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| Book Description Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career. An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it... Read more |
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Century Team by Mark Vancil(Editor), Peter Hirdt(Editor)
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| Amazon.com In the summer of 1999, baseball fans pitched their votes for Major League Baseball's All Century Team. Celebrated here with hundreds of photographs and deep statistical analysis, the 30-player squad spans the century, representing big leaguers from the golden age to the modern era. Prodigy Ken... Read more |
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Dynasty:
The New York Yankees, 1949-1964 by Peter Golenbock
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| Book Description From 1949 through 1964, the New York Yankees reigned over the major leagues with 14 pennants and nine World Series crowns, stonewalling their opponents and thrilling their fans. Dynasty recounts this golden age of baseball, when DiMaggio, Mantle, and Maris shone on the baseball diamond and the... Read more |
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