Baseball - History
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The Ultimate Detroit Tigers Time Machine Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe Detroit Tigers have been marked neither by dynasties nor doldrums. The Tigers captured just four World Series championships since becoming a charter member of the junior circuit in 1901. They comp
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493060554
- Language: English
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The Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine Book
$18.95 Add to cartThe Ultimate St. Louis Cardinals Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Cardinals’ greatest moments, such as their eleven World Series titles, but also such notable Cardina
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067079
- Language: English
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The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
$19.99 Add to cart“Both a pleasure and a revelation.”–Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings
In 1968, two astounding pitchers would dominate the game as never before. One was black, the other white. The stoic Bob Gibs- Author: Pappu, Sridhar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328557286
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Read moreChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
$19.95 Add to cart2014 Baseball Caucus Readers’ Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association
The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan’s dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity a
- Author: Halfon, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235193
- Language: English
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Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder
$16.95 Add to cartThe amazing true story of the men on Wyoming’s death row in the nineteen-teens who believed they’d be granted reprieves as long as they kept winning baseball games.
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0762787562
- Language: English
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Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
$24.99 Add to cartIn this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson’s crossing of baseball’s color line. Examining the… [more below]
- Author: Tygiel, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0195339282
- Language: English
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Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of Willie Mays’s rookie year with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a baseball legend
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays is o
- Author: Klima, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0470400137
- Language: English
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Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unfor
- Author: Levitt, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985263268
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Phillies
$31.99 Add to cartThe Philadelphia Phillies, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball, have maintained a strong, loyal fan base for over 125 years. Despite historic set backs, the franchise has proven resilient… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1531648835
- Language: English
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
$21.99 Add to cart“One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn’t merely a book about baseball. It’s a book about heart.” — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1401312667
- Language: English
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Angels in the Ozarks: Professional Baseball in Fayetteville and the Arkansas State / Arkansas-Missouri League 1934-1940
$14.99 Add to cartStep back in time to the summer of 1940, when professional baseball in Fayetteville, Arkansas met its untimely demise, leaving a void that has never been filled in the decades since. In this enchantin
- Author: Hogan, J. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1633737012
- Language: English
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
$24.00 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER
The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and off the field in this r- Author: Mays, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 125082835X
- Language: English
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Japanese American Baseball in California: A History
$24.99 Add to cartFour generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a t… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Nakagawa, Kerry Yo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 162619582X
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
$39.95 Add to cartThe Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith’s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the “most American”… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Curt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803288093
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
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The Ultimate New York Mets Time Machine Book
$18.95 Add to cartFrom their ignominious 40-120 debut in 1962, to the “Miracle Mets” of the shocking 1969 season, to the teams of Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Jacob deGrom, the New York Mets have in nearly sixt
- Author: Gitlin, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055321
- Language: English
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From Tidewater To The Shenandoah: Snapshots From Virginia’s Rich Baseball Legacy
$29.95 Add to cartThis unique book is a look at the past, present, and future of baseball in Virginia, a state which has produced five Hall of Famers and several World Series stars. It also looks at the history of mino
- Author: Driver, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1733303626
- Language: English
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100 Baseball Legends Who Shaped Sports History
$7.99 Add to cartLearn all about the amazing lives and careers of 100 of the greatest baseball players of all time with this fact-filled biography collection for kids.
Educational and engaging, 100 Baseball Legends Wh
- Series: 100
- Author: Roberts, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0912517522
- Language: English
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1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year
$18.95 Read moreThe true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship.
The pride of Chatham’s East End, the Coloured All-Stars broke the colour barrier in baseball more tha
- Author: Jacobs, Heidi LM
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 281
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1771964774
- Language: English
