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Encore! : The New York Yankees' 25the World Championship
by Nancy Lee(Editor), New York Times(Editor)

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(December 1999)
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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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Sports Publishing, Inc.
Hardcover - 250 pages
(April 2001)
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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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Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Hardcover - 600 pages
(March 28, 2001)
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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

54.
Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America
by Mike Lupica

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Paperback - 224 pages
(March 1, 2000)
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55.
Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
by John Helyar

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(March 1995)
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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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Hardcover - 208 pages
(May 1998)
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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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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
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(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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The Pride of Havana : A History of Cuban Baseball
by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

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Oxford Univ Pr (Trade)
Hardcover - 464 pages
(May 1999)
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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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4 Audio Cassettes edition (April 1998)
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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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Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures
by Dan Shaughnessy, et al

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Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd)
Paperback - 128 pages
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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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(October 2000)
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Baseball : An Illustrated History
by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns(Contributor)

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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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Fireside
Paperback - 450 pages
Reprint edition (December 1991)
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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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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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(October 1999)
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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.

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Baseball's Golden Age : The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon
by Neal McCabe(Contributor), Constance McCabe

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(October 1997)
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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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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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Our Tribe : A Baseball Memoir
by Terry Pluto

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Simon & Schuster
Hardcover - 288 pages
(June 1999)
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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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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 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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Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd)
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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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Hardcover - 132 pages
(March 1993)
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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 Most Relied Upon Source
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(September 1999)
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"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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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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