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The
Great Book of Baseball Knowledge : The Ultimate Test for the Ultimate
Fan by David Nemec
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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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Whatever
Happened to the Hall of Fame? : Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of
Glory by Bill James
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Synopsis Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall, probing its history, its politics and, most... Read more |
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Baseball's
Last Dynasty : Charlie Finley's Oakland A's by Bruce Markusen
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The Oakland A's won five division titles, three American League pennants, and three World Series from 1971 through 1975--a run unequaled in baseball since. Markusen, a senior researcher at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, presents a compelling case for classifying the A's of the '70s as a... Read more |
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Brooklyn's
Dodgers : The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
by Carl E. Prince
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This slim, illustrated volume makes a fascinating attempt at capturing in theoretical, sociological terms the love affair between the Dodgers--the team of Branch Rickey and Duke Snider, of Pee Wee Reese and, above all, Jackie Robinson--and the homely, family-oriented, working-class borough of... Read more | ||||
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My
Life in Baseball : The True Record by Ty Cobb, et al
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Amazon.com One of sports literature's great whitewashes and cover-ups, Ty Cobb's autobiography is anything but the "true record" of its titular claim. Cobb was as haunted and complex a man as has ever sharpened a pair of spikes, and, in his 70s, when he sat down to tell his story, he simply didn't want the... Read more |
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Total
Mets 2000 (Total Baseball Companions) by Gary Gillette(Editor), et al
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Book Description Each Total Baseball Companion is the official resource on one major league team. The statistics, history, and analysis that make Total Baseball a fixture in fans' libraries can now be found in 30 books that can fit into a back pocket. Each Companion includes a breakdown of a team's 1999 season and a... 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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The
Sporting News Selects...... : Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments by Ron Smith(Compiler), Joe Morgan
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Amazon.com Given The Sporting News's criteria for a Greatest Moment--a dramatic, nail-biting situation; an out-of-the-blue happening; or the culmination of a record chase--the list of 25 they send to the plate may be predictable, but so what? These are moments of such myth and import--not surprisingly, most... Read more |
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84. | Indians
Illustrated : 100 Years of Cleveland Indians Photos by Mark Stang
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Sporting
News Selects 50 Greatest Sluggers by Tony DeMarco
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April 14, 2000
Power is Forever Baseball is in the midst of an all out power hitting surge with more home runs being hit than ever before, and this new book by the Sporting News is perfectly timed to take advantage of our current facination with the long ball. This book is also one that the generations can enjoy together.. My son... Read more
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Wrigleyville
: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs by Peter Golenbock
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The Chicago Cubs have had a 50-year reign as baseball's lovable losers, but this chronicle of their tear-stained history is a winner all the way. Popular sports historian Golenbock covers the origins of the team, including its early, often successful years, and gradually segues into the post^-World... Read more |
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Fear
Strikes Out : The Jim Piersall Story by Jimmy Piersall, et al
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Amazon.com Once again, the Bison Books imprint of the University of Nebraska Press has reached into baseball's past and returned with a Hall of Fame read. Fear Strikes Out is one of the game's most dramatic autobiographies. It is also one of the most important. When first published in 1955, it ventured into... Read more |
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The
Dodgers - Giants Rivalry 1900 - 1957 by Marvin A. Cohen
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Book Description The Dodgers Giants Rivalry 1900 - 1957 is a trip down baseballs memory lane. The Dodgers Giants rivalry was unique in that both teams were in the National League and, therefore, met twenty-two times during the regular season. This book recalls the action on a year-to-year basis and includes... Read more |
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At
Fenway : Dispatches from Red Sox Nation by Dan Shaughnessy
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Boston Globe sportswriter Shaughnessy is a lifelong New Englander, so when he writes about the Red Sox, as he did so well in The Curse of the Bambino (1990), he provides the unique perspective of a long-suffering hometowner. While Bambino was a stylized history of the Beantown team, At Fenway is a... Read more |
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Babe
Ruth Slept Here : The Baseball Landmarks of New York City by Jim Reisler
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9, 1999
A "must" read for serious baseball fans. Having borrowed the book from a friend and having read it with great pleasure, it has been placed on my Christmas wish list. It will provide me with a guide on future tours into New York to see the many sites related to baseball events that Reisler has done such an excellent job of describing. Read more
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Legal
Bases : Baseball and the Law by Roger I. Abrams
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Amazon.com Baseball may be just a game on the field, but it's a a complex web of contracts and consolidations off of it; from the moment William Hulbert invoked the power of the legal system to unite a disparate group of clubs into the National League in 1876, the law and the game have turned into fascinating... Read more |
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Eight
Men Out : The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof, Stephen Jay Gould(Introduction)
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Out Of Stock Henry Holt (Paper) Paperback - 302 pages Movie Tie edition (August 1988) |
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The Boston Globe "As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." 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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The
Curse of the Bambino by Dan Shaughnessy
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Larry King, USA Today The best history of the snake--bitten Boston Red Sox ever penned. Read more |
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The
Baltimore Orioles : Four Decades of Magic from 33rd Street to Camden
Yards by Ted Patterson, Brooks Robinson
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Never Forget Your Roots - A 33rd Street Memory The memories of watching Orioles games on TV and in old Memorial Stadium came back to life as I read this book. Those long time Orioles fans can re-live great games of the past as they spend a moment, trying to forget that our old friend on 33rd Street will be torn down next year. Rich in history... Read more
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Long
Balls, No Strikes : What Baseball Must Do to Keep the Good Times
Rolling by Joe Morgan, Richard Lally
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Amazon.com The 1998 season was a year of wonders, to be sure, but attendance remained lower than it was before the '94 strike, 14 clubs suffered box-office declines, and the TV ratings for the World Series were in the tank. "Baseball is back," Hall-of-Fame second baseman Joe Morgan observes, "but it's not back... Read more |
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The
Year the Red Sox Won the Series : A Chronicle of the 1918 Championship
Season by Ty Waterman(Editor), et al
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Summer
of '98 : When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed
America by Mike Lupica
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Total
Red Sox 2000 (Total Baseball Companions) by Gary Gillette(Editor), et al
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100. | The
Cardinals Encyclopedia (Baseball Encyclopedias of North America)
by Mike Eisenbath, Stan Musial
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I think this book is a good buy for any baseball fane. First, a disclaimer: I am a fellow member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports staff with Mike Eisenbath, the book's author. Second, a disclaimer of the disclaimer: Anyone who knows me knows that I have never hesistated to criticize a fellow staff member. On to the review: Here are five good... Read more
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