Baseball - History
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Before They Wore Dodger Blue
$24.95 Add to cartThe Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers were always groundbreakers on the player-development front, and when MLB instituted an amateur player draft in 1965, the Dodgers were ready: by 1968, the disciplined f
- Author: Vickrey, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1938532945
- Language: English
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The Subway Series: New York City’s Illustrious Baseball Tradition
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the Bridegrooms and Giants to the Mets and Yankees, discover 136 years of epic clashes that made the Subway Series a legendary rivalry.
For nearly thirty years, the modern-day tradition of the Su- Author: Laughland, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1493092731
- Language: English
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Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team
$30.00 Add to cart“Metropolitans expertly unpacks the ‘cruel optimism’ linking the yearning of a fanbase whose suffering is alleviated by sporadic miracles to the genuine dissident legacies that surrounded the team’s c… [more below]
- Author: Gittlitz, A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1662603002
- Language: English
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Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game
$20.00 Add to cart“Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey’s book proves it, without wasting a word.”–Lee Eisenbe… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Vecsey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0812978706
- Language: English
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Pure Baseball: Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan
$17.00 Add to cartFormer All-Star Keith Hernandez teaches even the most learned fan a thing or two about baseball with his unparalleled insight into all aspects of the game, from the action in the bullpen to the positi
- Author: Hernandez, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 19 1995
- ISBN10: 0060925914
- Language: English
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The 50 Greatest Players in St. Louis Cardinals History
$18.95 Add to cartThis book carefully examines the careers of the fifty men who made the greatest impact on one of the most successful franchises in the history of professional sports. Features of The 50 Greatest Playe… [more below]
- Series: 50 Greatest Players
- Author: Cohen, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1630760854
- Language: English
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Dave McNally
$22.95 Add to cartWhat lies ahead for a boy growing up in Billings, Montana, in the 1950s, who lost his father during combat in World War II? Can he realize the dream of thousands of youngsters and become a major-leagu
- Author: Gaub, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888193280
- Language: English
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
$18.99 Add to cartYou’ll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 — inning b
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2000
- ISBN10: 0618056696
- Language: English
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In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball
$36.95 Add to cartBaseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it. To shed light on these difference… [more below]
- Author: Fitts, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244079
- Language: English
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America’s Ballparks: A Trip Across the Country to Visit Baseball’s Playing Fields, Old and New
$45.00 Add to cartNothing stirs the soul of a baseball fan like the crack of a bat against a ball . . . or the sight of a fielder leaping high into the air to snatch that ball out of play. What would these fans be with… [more below]
- Author: Hajeski, Nancy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 076437012X
- Language: English
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Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
$36.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, inc… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235789
- Language: English
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Ring the Bell: How the Philadelphia Phillies Built Baseball’s Best Fan Base
$32.99 Add to cartRalph Waldo Emerson famously said, “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
He must’ve been a Phillies fan. The Philadelphia Phillies, a franchise nearly 150 years old, has only reached its grand- Author: Reavy, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 168358497X
- Language: English
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Baseball Legends Alphabet
$19.95 Read moreFrom Babe Ruth to Joe DiMaggio, Satchel Paige to Dizzy Dean, see all the greats step up to the plate in Baseball Legends Alphabet. Written and illustrated with All-Star quality, this book is sure to h… [more below]
- Author: Feiner, Beck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0648506347
- Language: English
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Out of the Mouth of Babe: Babe Ruth on Life: Pitching, Hitting, Striking Out, and Coming Back Swinging
$16.99 Read moreA collection of quotes compiled by the author of The House that Ruth Built, Kelly Bennett, in collaboration with Brent Stevens, Babe Ruth’s great-grandson, and Stu Dressler, a long-time friend of the… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1641705779
- Language: English
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The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978
$21.95 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area sportswriters labeled the growing group of born-again Christians on the San Francisco Giants the “God Squad.” When the God Squadders helped propel the tea
- Author: Sieger, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1631322184
- Language: English
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The Franchise: San Francisco Giants: A Curated History of the Orange and Black
$22.00 Read moreIn The Franchise: San Francisco Giants, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Pavlovic, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1637271565
- Language: English
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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
$18.00 Add to cartFor six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball’s unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O’Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera. But for the players an
- Author: Olney, Buster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061672874
- Language: English
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The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees’ unprecedented talent with this gripping account from a reporter who was there for the team’s dominating 125 wins.
The visiting clubhouse in San- Author: Curry, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1538722984
- Language: English
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The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
$34.95 Add to cartTo be a part of Red Sox Nation is to be a hopeful romantic who neither betrays loyalty nor surrenders hope in the direst of circumstances. From Bangor to Back Bay, New Englanders endure in baseball ma… [more below]
- Author: Krell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623233X
- Language: English
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The Enchanted Season
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1984, fantasy became reality in the Motor City. Led by ace Jack Morris, a historic season from lefty Willie Hernandez, and a thumping lineup powered by Kirk Gibson, Chet Lemon, and Lance Parrish,
- Author: Parrish, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1637278489
- Language: English
