Baseball - History
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Stan Musial: From Donora, Pa, to St. Louis, Mo, and the Big Leagues, 2nd Edition
$17.00 Read moreStan the Man was one of the greatest baseball players to set foot on the field and he wore a Cardinals uniform his entire career. With a lifetime batting average of .331 and 475 career home runs, Stan… [more below]
- Author: Bearce, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064480
- Language: English
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Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997
$19.95 Add to cartRelive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory!
Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almos
- Author: Pluto, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: November 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1938441354
- Language: English
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research … [more below]
- Author: Kepner, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1101970855
- Language: English
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St. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know
$17.00 Read moreSt. Louis Cardinals: Everything You Need to Know!, offers a unique approach to telling the story of Cardinals baseball for fans young and old. Hundreds of vivid photos and accompanying vignettes allow… [more below]
- Author: Wheatley, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1681064456
- Language: English
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
$18.99 Add to cartNow available in paperback, the “fresh and fascinating” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), “splendid and brilliant” (Philadelphia Daily News) history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major L… [more below]
- Author: Thorn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0743294041
- Language: English
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Shadows of Glory: Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories
$26.95 Add to cartMany baseball fans may not be aware of lesser-known but equally engaging stories about the Fall Classic. Shadows of Glory recounts 18 of these stories and will encounter some unlikely World Series her
- Author: Brown, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1493081292
- Language: English
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Chicago Cubs Firsts: The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History
$22.95 Add to cartIn the more than 140-year-history of the Chicago Cubs, fans have been treated to countless firsts – well-known things such as the first Cubs Black player (Ernie Banks), the first night game at Wrigley… [more below]
- Series: Sports Team Firsts
- Author: Yellon, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1493074512
- Language: English
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Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War
$34.95 Add to cartWhen the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integr… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496219457
- Language: English
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Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America
$19.00 Read moreTheir names were chanted, crowed, and cursed. Alone they were a shortstop, a second baseman, and a first baseman. But together they were an unstoppable force. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chanc… [more below]
- Author: Rapp, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 022679024X
- Language: English
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The Pine Tar Game
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller–“a rollicking account” (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off on… [more below]
- Author: Bondy, Filip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1476777187
- Language: English
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The Story of the Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball’s All Brothers World Champions
$10.99 Add to cartThe story of the most famous all-brother, semi-pro baseball team of all time began when Mary and Martin Stanczak were forced to flee their Polish homeland for America. They settled in Illinois where,
- Author: Stanczak, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1638370001
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
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The Ultimate New York Yankees Time Machine Book
$31.58 Add to cartThis book covers the entirety of franchise history, from their birth and struggles as the Highlanders to the bludgeoning bats of Murderer’s Row and the first Yankees dynasty to the juggernauts of the
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493060414
- Language: English
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame Collection: Celebrating the Game’s Greatest Players
$24.99 Add to cartOfficially licensed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, this revised and updated volume gathers the biographies, statistics, and photos of over 175 members of the most exclusive club in the sport. … [more below]
- Author: Buckley Jr, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0760385513
- Language: English
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The Sandlot Legacy
$24.99 Add to cartIn the vast tapestry of life, dreams are the vibrant threads that weave stories of ambition and determination. Jack Thompson’s journey is emblematic of every child who gazes at the stars and believes
- Author: Beede, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1088226752
- Language: English
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Gentleman Jake: The Success and Tragedy of the Deadball Era’s Greatest First Baseman
$24.95 Add to cartThe life story of Jake Daubert, who left the coal mines of Pennsylvania to become a two-time major league batting champion.
Jake Daubert could have followed the path of two of his brothers and died as
- Author: Deitz, Harry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888191200
- Language: English
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Joe Dimaggio: The Hero’s Life
$21.99 Add to cartJoe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.
In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big–and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era- Author: Cramer, Richard Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0684865475
- Language: English
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Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance’s boast is manifest–these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one w
- Author: Murphy, Cait N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060889381
- Language: English
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The Pitch That Killed
$19.99 Add to cartOn a torridly hot August day in 1920, Ray Chapman was struck and killed by a Carl Mays fastball, in what was and remains the only on-the-field fatality in the history of major league baseball. The dra
- Author: Sowell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1938545427
- Language: English
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Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
$36.95 Add to cart2023 SABR Baseball Research Award
Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even
A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book
Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal
Finalist for the 2022 CASEY Award- Author: Hiltner, Judith R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496222857
- Language: English
