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America's Favorite Pastime
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Playing with the Enemy
A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken
Dreams
by Gary W. Moore
Foreword by Jim Morris
$29.95 Hardcover
Savas Beatie
The astonishing story of Gene Moore's life in and out of
baseball is an exciting and often heartwrenching saga that
will capture the heart of every red-blooded American who
can still smell the fresh-cut summer grass or remember how
it felt to tie on the cleats while dreaming of making it
to the big leagues.
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Crazy '08
How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates
Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
by Cait Murphy
Foreword by Robert W. Creamer
$24.95 Hardcover
Collins
Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 season--the year when
Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe
with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants
and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates in the greatest
pennant race the National League has ever seen. However,
this book also details the forces that created modern
baseball and the America that produced it. |
Smithsonian Baseball
Inside the World's Finest Private Collections
by Stephen Wong
Foreword by Jane Forbes Clark
$21.95 Paperback
Collins
The first book of its kind, Smithsonian Baseball
features revealing stories and lavish photography
highlighting 21 of the best private collections of
baseball memorabilia in existence. Among the national
treasures you'll find: the only known photograph of
baseball's first organized team, the New York
Knickerbockers, circa 1846, and an original copy of the
first written rules of modern baseball.
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The American Game
A Celebration of Minor League Baseball
by Ira Rosen
$29.95 Hardcover
HarperCollins Publishers
Minor League ballgames offer a very different experience
from the big leagues. Ira Rosen spent several seasons
traveling the nation to photograph some of the country's
best Minor League ballparks and interview hundreds of
minor and major league players, managers, and coaches.
This book covers every level of the minors, including the
independent leagues.
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Dreaming Baseball
by James T. Farrell
$28.00 Hardcover
Kent State University Press
“The heart of Farrell's baseball novel is the story of a
young boy who dreams of playing one day for his hometown
team and lives that dream, only to see it ruined by the
social realities and personal failure that often shadow
the dreamer. For Farrell, baseball is where youthful
dreams begin, but it's also a test of character when the
dream-come-true becomes a nightmare.”--from the Foreword
by Eliot Asinof, author of Eight Men Out.
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Burying the Black Sox
How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World
Series Fix Almost Succeeded
by Gene Carney
ISBN: 9781597971089
$17.95 Paperback
Potomac Books
Most baseball fans know about the 1919
"Black Sox"; they likely don't know that it
took nearly a year to uncover the fix.
Burying the Black Sox is the first book
to focus on the cover-up that kept the fix
from the American public until almost
another baseball season was played, and to
examine in detail the way events unfolded as
the deception was unraveled. |
The Rocket
Baseball Legend Roger Clemens
by Joseph Janczak
ISBN: 9781597970884
$26.95 Hardcover |
The Book
Playing the Percentages in Baseball
by Tom M. Tango, Mitchel G. Lichtman & Andrew E. Dolphin
ISBN: 9781597971294
$21.95 Paperback
Potomac Books
Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, The
Book provides a revolutionary way to think about
baseball with principles that can be applied at every
level, from high school to the major leagues. The
authors cover such topics as batting and pitching
matchups, platooning, the benefits and risks of
intentional walks and sacrifices, and more, analyzing
when a strategy is a good idea and when it's not. |
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