26.		The Baseball Fan's Companion: How to Master the Subtleties of the World's Most Complex Team Sport and Learn to Watch the Game Like an Expert by Nick Bakalar
		Back Ordered Hungry Minds, Inc Paperback - 272 pages (March 15, 1996)	List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Book Description For the fan who just needs to brush up on America's favorite pastime or the novice learning the finer points of the game, “The Baseball Fan's Companion” stands ready at the plate to answer all your questions. Read more
27.		The Spirit of st Louis : A History of St. Louis Cardinals and Browns by Peter Golenbock
		Usually ships in 24 hours Avon Books (Trd) Hardcover - 640 pages 1 Ed edition (February 2000)	List Price: $27.50 Our Price: $22.00 You Save: $5.50 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
From Booklist January 1, 2000 St. Louis has a rich baseball tradition, most recently embodied in the slugging exploits of Mark McGwire, but the tradition stretches back to the late 1800s and includes both the National League Cardinals and the American League Browns (who moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles in the 1950s).... Read more
28.		The Goose Is Loose : An Autobiography by Goose Gossage, et al
		Usually ships in 24 hours Ballantine Books (Trd) Hardcover - 320 pages (February 29, 2000)	List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $20.00 You Save: $5.00 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com The sight of hulking reliever Goose Gossage staring over his Fu Manchu was only a little less menacing than the high cheese he would uncork in the next motion. In 22 major-league seasons, he regularly led fellow closers in intimidation. That's why the caricature of him smiling on the cover of his... Read more
29.		Koufax by Ed Gruver, Edward Gruver
		Usually ships in 24 hours Taylor Pub Hardcover - 288 pages First edition (April 1, 2000)	List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Los Angeles Times "Probably a must for any longtime Dodger follower..." Read more
30.		Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners : 12 Keys to Managing Team Players, Tough Bosses, Setbacks, and Success by Joe Torre, Henry Dreher(Contributor)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Hyperion Hardcover - 282 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1999)	List Price: $23.95 Our Price: $19.16 You Save: $4.79 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
From AudioFile Seasoned baseball manager Torre organizes his leadership wisdom into 12 key principles that can be applied to any situation in which you are managing or reporting to other people. Steadiness, optimism, serenity and mutual respect are some of the keys, and it's impressive in these times to hear him... Read more
31.	See picture	Baseball Vacations : Great Family Trips to Minor League and Classic Major League Ballparks Across America by Margaret Engel, Bruce Adams
		Usually ships in 24 hours Fodors Travel Pubns Paperback - 336 pages 2nd edition (March 14, 2000)	List Price: $18.00 Our Price: $14.40 You Save: $3.60 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Not surprisingly, this is a great book for the family that loves baseball. The authors set out with their 8-year-old daughter, 5-year-old son, and a worthy goal: "to help families plan realistic trips that include baseball." To that end, they traveled over 50,000 miles and cheered on over 110 major-... Read more
32.	See picture	Complete Conditioning for Baseball by Pat Murphy, et al
		Usually ships in 24 hours Human Kinetics (T) Paperback - 208 pages (March 1997)	List Price: $15.95 Our Price: $12.76 You Save: $3.19 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Synopsis In Complete Conditioning for Baseball, one of the premier college coaches and a major league strength and conditioning coach explain how to develop strength, power, speed, agility, and flexibility--the components of conditioning. Highlights of the book include drills and exercises players can do on... Read more
33.	See picture	Every Pitcher Tells a Story : Letters Gathered by a Devoted Baseball Fan by Seth Swirsky
		Usually ships in 24 hours Times Books Hardcover - 217 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1, 1999)	List Price: $25.95 Our Price: $20.76 You Save: $5.19 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Gods--as John Updike once wrote of Ted Williams--do not answer letters, but it's amazing how many ballplayers actually do. In his previous Baseball Letters, Swirsky mailed off questions to contemporaries and old-timers alike, and then published the medley of mostly handwritten missives he got back.... Read more
34.	See picture	The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
		Usually ships in 24 hours HarperCollins (paper) Paperback - 496 pages (June 2000)	List Price: $15.00 Our Price: $12.00 You Save: $3.00 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com "At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams." Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this... Read more
35.	See picture	Ball Four : The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton
		Usually ships in 1-2 weeks Sports Publishing Inc. Hardcover - 544 pages 20 edition (October 2000)	Our Price: $24.95 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com As a player, former hurler Jim Bouton did nothing half-way; he threw so hard he'd lose his cap on almost every pitch. In the early '70s, he tossed off one of the funniest, most revealing, insider's takes on baseball life in Ball Four, his diary of the season he tried to pitch his way back from... Read more
36.	See picture	Tales from the Dodger Dugout by Carl Erskine(Editor)
		Usually ships in 1-2 weeks Sports Publishing, Inc. Hardcover - 200 pages (July 2000)	Our Price: $19.55 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
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
37.	See picture	America's Game : A 3 Dimensional Interactive Book by Tim Kurkjian
		Usually ships in 24 hours Crown Pub Hardcover - 32 pages 1 Ed edition (April 18, 2000)	List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $23.96 You Save: $5.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
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
38.	See picture	Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
		Usually ships in 24 hours Avon Mass Market Paperback Reissue edition (February 1997)	List Price: $6.99 Our Price: $6.29 You Save: $0.70 (10%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com With the airwaves saturated with so much sporting choice, it's hard to imagine how, not that long ago, baseball so completely dominated the landscape and captured imaginations. Given the 1949 season that veteran journalist David Halberstam meticulously recreates, maybe it's not so hard after all. It... Read more
39.	See picture	The Joy of Keeping Score : How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball (Harvest Book) by Paul Dickson
		Usually ships in 24 hours Harvest Books Paperback - 128 pages (July 1997)	List Price: $10.00 Our Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
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
40.	See picture	Batter Up! The Ultimate Baseball Scorekeeper by Benjamin Eli Smith, Benjamin Eli Smith
		Usually ships in 24 hours Chronicle Books Spiral-bound - 128 pages Spiral edition (April 15, 2000)	List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Book Description The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd-these are the sounds of summer across the USA. With this record keeper you can capture every exciting moment. Batter Up! includes a season's worth of score sheets for you to follow your favorite team, along with instructions on how to score an official... Read more
41.	See picture	Joy in Mudville : A Little League Memoir by Greg Mitchell
		Usually ships in 24 hours Pocket Books Hardcover - 224 pages (March 2000)	List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.96 You Save: $3.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Little League baseball parents are the stage mothers of our era. Hardly a summer goes by without another story about them brawling, threatening the umpire, or berating their own kids or others to the point of tears. Former Crawdaddy editor Greg Mitchell's father wasn't like that: he played catch... Read more
42.	See picture	Major League Baseball's Best Shots by Johnny Bench, Major League Baseball
		Usually ships in 24 hours DK Publishing Hardcover - 160 pages 1st edition (September 1, 2000)	List Price: $30.00 Our Price: $24.00 You Save: $6.00 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Baseball lends itself to still photography. Photos freeze baseball's rhythm, allowing the viewer to examine details: Derek Jeter's agility as he leaps in the air to turn a double play, Ted Williams's beautiful follow-through after connecting with another hit, the bone-jarring crunch of a collision... Read more
43.	See picture	Coaching Pitchers by Joe Spanky McFarland
		Usually ships in 2-3 days Human Kinetics Pub Paperback - 133 pages 2nd edition (January 1991)	List Price: $20.95 Our Price: $16.76 You Save: $4.19 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
A reviewer, June 8, 2000 Fundamentaly sound pitching instruction! Coaching Pitchers is well written, easy to read and understand, and provides a wealth of how to teach your pitchers the proper fundamentals of pitching. This book is well worth the price and needs to be read by EVERY youth coach. The techniques, drills and suggestions are well documented with... Read more
44.	See picture	The Art of Hitting .300 by Charley Lau, et al
		Usually ships in 24 hours E P Dutton Paperback Rev/updatd edition (February 1992)	List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $19.96 You Save: $4.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
kightlinger, September 11, 2000 I owe my self-esteem to this book I was a scrawny little kid to whom baseball was everything. To my parent's dismay, I judged myself by how I played baseball. But I was scared of the baseball and lost as to how to go about hitting it. My coaches gave me harmful, misguided instructions like, "make sure it's a stike, then swing... Read more
45.	See picture	Bill James Presents Stats Major League Handbook 2000 (Bill James Presents Stats Major League Handbook, 2000) by Bill James
		Special Order STATS Inc. Paperback - 413 pages (November 1999)	Our Price: $19.95 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com The name Bill James is synonymous with baseball statistics. If you need to know the latest facts and figures about the national pastime, his handbook is the source of record. In it you'll find complete statistics for the past year's pitchers, hitters, fielders, and managers. But far from being a... Read more
46.	See picture	Tales from the Red Sox Dugout by Jim Prime, Bill Nowlin
		Usually ships in 1-2 weeks Sports Publishing, Inc. Hardcover - 170 pages (July 21, 2000)	Our Price: $19.95 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Book Description The Boston Red Sox are one of the storied sports franchises in North America. Steeped in tradition, they represent a veritable treasure trove of baseball lore. From the earliest days of a promising young pitcher named Babe Ruth, through the glory years of Foxx, Williams, and Yastrzemski, to the... Read more
47.	See picture	Baseball Just for Kids : Skills, Strategies and Stories to Make You a Better Ballplayer by Jerry Kasoff, Slam Press Grand
		Out Of Stock Grand Slam Pr Inc Paperback (April 1996)	Our Price: $12.95 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Midwest Book Review Baseball Just For Kids is ideal reading for 8 to 12 year olds and covers the basic rules of the game, plus proven strategies to make them better ballplayers. Young readers will discover how to increase their batting average by 16 points, the do's and don'ts of baserunning, the art of the bunt,... Read more
48.	See picture	2001 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards (Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, 10th Ed) by Robert F. Lemke(Editor), et al
		Usually ships in 24 hours Krause Publications Paperback - 1661 pages 10th edition (September 2000)	List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $31.96 You Save: $7.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Book Description The brand new tenth edition of the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards is the most complete and accurate baseball card checklist and pricing book ever published. More than 425,000 cards are listed in up to three grades of condition giving buyers more than 600,000 real-world prices. Over 12,000 large,... Read more
49.	See picture	Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time (Spalding Sports Library) by Ken Ravizza(Contributor), Tom Hanson
		Usually ships in 24 hours Masters Pr Paperback - 3 pages (February 1995)	List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Todd Fairbourne (Softball), August 2, 2000 Heads Up Baseball This will be short and sweet. I coach a college softball team. This is mandatory reading each year for my team. We study it as a team. I believe the mental aspects of the game are of utmost importance, usually being the difference in championship caliber contests. This book not only addresses with... Read more
50.	See picture	Baseball For Dummies® by Joe Morgan, Richard Lally(Contributor)
		Usually ships in 24 hours Hungry Minds, Inc Paperback - 456 pages 2nd Edition edition (March 2000)	List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $15.99 You Save: $4.00 (20%) Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Baseball is another solid hit in the popular Dummies series. With its chatty style, snappy graphics, and enjoyably informative top-10 lists, the book sticks to the Dummies format better than most pitchers follow their catchers' signs, a plus to be sure. The real plus, though, resides in the deftness... Read more

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