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Encore!
: The New York Yankees' 25the World Championship by Nancy Lee(Editor), New York Times(Editor)
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Encore for "Encore" When the Yankees win, the New York Times is ready to put out a stellar, glossy, color publication detailing the six month season, each playoff game, and the world series. What a great way to perserve the memories of another miraculous season. Can we expect a new edition in December 2000? Yankees... Read more
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The
New York Mets Encyclopedia by Peter C. Bjarkman
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Book Description The New York Mets Encyclopedia provides the full and exciting story of modern era baseball's most popular expan- sion-age franchise. From those lovable losers of 1962 and 1963, to the Miracle Mets of 1969 and 1973, and onto year-in and year out contenders of the 1980's and 1990's. Read more |
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The
Complete New York Yankees: The Total Encyclopedia of the Team by Derek Gentile
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Book Description This ultimate book for the Yankee fan includes every player who ever played for the Yankees even for a single at bat, every statistic-both career and with the Yankees-and every important moment in Yankee history making this the most thorough and eclectic look at the team of Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle and... 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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Lords
of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball by John Helyar
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Amazon.com Wall Street Journal sports reporter (and Barbarians at the Gate co-author) John Helyar has produced an entertaining and concise look at the real reasons that Major League Baseball has become the big business that it is today--and a definitive glimpse at where America's erstwhile national pastime is... Read more |
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Yankee
Stadium : 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory by Ray Robinson, Christopher Jennison
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Amazon.com Forget the bleak news about Yankee Stadium falling down and the Bombers slipping across state lines to New Jersey. Yankee Stadium was there long before George Steinbrenner took over, and, says the smart money, it will remain there, the most famous of all sporting cathedrals, long after the Boss is... 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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The
Pride of Havana : A History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
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Amazon.com The "national" in "national pastime" is a relative term in Yale literature professor and former semi-pro catcher Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria's meticulous examination of baseball in the land of his birth. A respected scholar, Echevarria is also a fan, and he manages to weave both objectivity and... 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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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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Fenway:
A Biography in Words and Pictures by Dan Shaughnessy, et al
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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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Legends
of the Tribe : An Illustrated History of the Cleveland Indians by Morris Eckhouse
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Baseball
: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns(Contributor)
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From
AudioFile As you'd expect in a history of baseball, all the legends are here. So is the story of the game's growth from the Elysian Fields of New Jersey to the multi-million dollar entertainment it is today. But Ward and Burns do more than chronicle the exploits of heroes. They examine "America's pastime" in... Read more |
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Loose
Balls : The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association-As Told
by the Players, Coaches, and Movers and Shakers Who Made It Happen
by Terry Pluto
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Fun Light Reading I remember reading this book many years ago. Then I came accross a Mr. Maxx review that I actually agreed with and figured why not put in my two cents. The story of the wild days of ABA is told in a very witty easy to read manner that will have any reader comming back for more. Even though the ABA... Read more |
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Lost
Ballparks : A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields by Lawrence S. Ritter, Robert W. Creamer(Introduction)
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Synopsis The Polo Ground, Ebbets Field, Comiskey Park--the great temples of baseball are being razed to the ground. Now the author of The Glory of Their Times has brought 22 of these grand old open-air, wood-and-concrete stadiums back to life in a beautiful, big-hearted book filled with over 250 vintage... Read more |
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Smoke
: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball by Mark Rucker, Peter C. Bjarkman
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Indianapolis Star Along with photo archivist and designer Mark Rucker, Peter Bjarkman made three trips to Cuba to gather material for Smoke, a lavish and poignant panorama of the island's national passion from its 19th-century origins to the 1999 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Smoke reproduces hundreds of... Read more |
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Baseball's
Golden Age : The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon by Neal McCabe(Contributor), Constance McCabe
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Amazon.com He was called "The Baseball Photographer," the man who put his camera away after the World Series and didn't unpack it again until Opening Day, but Conlon's work is not that simple. Though he had no artistic pretense, his images are certainly works of art, and if his subject, on the... 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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Our
Tribe : A Baseball Memoir by Terry Pluto
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Amazon.com One of the miracles of the National Pastime is the way it can tie us to our home teams with a blood-knot of allegiance; we live with them in good times ... and die with them the rest of the time. Of course, being a Cleveland Indians fan over the course of the last half-century has demanded a good... 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
Subway Series: The Yankees, the Mets and a Season to Remember (The Official
Commemorative of the 2000 World Series) by Sporting News(Editor)
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The
Ultimate Baseball Book, Expanded and Updated by Daniel Okrent(Editor), et al
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Amazon.com Any book calling itself The Ultimate Baseball Book has a lot to live up to. But when Ken Burns tags it "the Cadillac of baseball books," the authors have obviously succeeded. The book is divided up into innings, one per decade. Each inning contains a historical overview of the decade, followed by an... Read more |
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The
Giants : Memories and Memorabilia from a Century of Baseball by Bruce Chadwick, David M. Spindel(Photographer)
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Whether in New York or San Francisco the Giants have never ceased to dazzle. Bobby Thompson's "shot heard 'round the world" and "the catch" by Willie Mays will forever be on highlight reels and the names of John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and Willie McCovey will endure in the hall of fame.... Read more | ||||
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300
Great Baseball Cards of the 20th Century : A Historical Tribute by the Hobby's
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Amazon.com "The beauty of baseball cards," writes Mike Payne in his brief introduction, "is that you don't have to have played the game to collect the men who do play the game." And the beauty of the 300 particular cards that he's collected here is how much these little pieces of cardboard convey about the... Read more |
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The
Corner : A Century of Memories at Michigan and Trumbull by Richard Bak, Charlie Vincent
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Book Description In April 1896, a Detroit tradition began when the first baseball game was played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, in what was then known as Bennett Park. The fledgling Tigers triumphed, and a legendary stadium was born. The stadium would go through as many changes as the sport on its way to... Read more |
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