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The New York Yankees All-Time All-Stars: The Best Players at Each Position for the Bronx Bombers
- ASIN: 1493038176
- ISBN: 1493038176
- Brand: Lyons Press
- Manufacturer: Lyons Press
Let’s say you’re the manager of the most successful professional baseball team in history, with every past and current player available on your bench. Game time is approaching and the ump needs your line-up card. Who’s your starting pitcher? Crafty Whitey Ford, lights-out Ron Guidry, or a big-game right-hander? Is Munson behind the plate or Y... [Read More]
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Now Taking the Field: Baseball's All-Time Dream Teams for All 30 Franchises
- ASIN: 0879466669
- ISBN: 0879466669
- Manufacturer: ACTA Publications
Who is the best at each position throughout the history of each major league baseball franchise? Now Taking the Field provides robust 30-man all-time dream team rosters, selected based on Wins Above Replacement (WAR), traditional statistics, awards, and post-season accomplishments. Additional features for each all-time team include starting lineups... [Read More]
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Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time
- ASIN: 0306823748
- ISBN: 0306823748
- Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Never in baseball history had a team ranked last rebounded to take the pennant the following season. Yet in 1991 lightning struck twice as the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves, a pair of cellar dwellers the year before, faced each other in an unforgettable World Series. When the final out was recorded, the cover headline in Baseball Weekly re... [Read More]
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Slide! The Baseball Tragicomedy That Defined Me, My Family, and the City of Philadelphia - And How It All Could Have Been Avoided Had Someone Just Listened to My Lesbian Great Aunt
- ASIN: 1684015685
- ISBN: 1684015685
- Brand: Mascot Books
- Manufacturer: Mascot Books
Slide! is the laugh-out-loud true story of the greatest collapse in baseball history, told from the perspective of a boy who lived it. The Philadelphia Phillies' bid for the pennant in 1964 was an almost flawless run. With twelve games to play, the team's lead seemed insurmountable. For 11-year-old Carl Wolfson, it was the happiest summer of his yo... [Read More]
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The Pittsburgh Pirates All-Time All-Stars: The Best Players at Each Position for the Bucs
- ASIN: 1493043609
- ISBN: 1493043609
- Brand: Lyons Press
- Manufacturer: Lyons Press
Let’s say you’re the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, deciding which players should start in Game 7 of the World Series against the American League champs. But instead of choosing from the current roster, you have every player in the team’s 131-year history in your clubhouse. Who’s your starting pitcher: lefty John Candelaria, steady Bert... [Read More]
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The New York Mets All-Time All-Stars: The Best Players at Each Position for the Amazin's
- ASIN: 1493046624
- ISBN: 1493046624
- Brand: Lyons Press
- Manufacturer: Lyons Press
Let’s say you’re the manager of one of the most beloved franchises in Major League Baseball, with every past and current player available on your bench. Game time is approaching and the ump needs your line-up card. Who’s your starting pitcher? Fireballer Dwight Gooden, lights-out Tom Seaver, or run-stingy Jacob de Grom? Is Gary Carter behind ... [Read More]
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Oh Brother, How They Played the Game: The Story of Texas' Greatest All-Brother Baseball Team (Texas Heritage Series)
- ASIN: 1933337133
- ISBN: 1933337133
- Manufacturer: State House Press
In the middle of the Great Depression, nine brothers from a small town in the Texas Hill Country played a baseball game they would never forget—the All-Brothers Baseball Championship in Wichita, Kansas. The Deike Brothers from Hye, Texas, would take on the Stanczak Brothers from the Chicago suburb of Waukegan, Illinois, in a game staged as a prom... [Read More]
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About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir
- ASIN: 1948677164
- ISBN: 1948677164
- Brand: Forefront Books
- Manufacturer: Forefront Books
A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That’s not to say it’s not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it’s really a book about “mothers.”…It is not, ... [Read More]
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I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love
- ASIN: 1250077931
- ISBN: 1250077931
- Brand: St Martins Pr
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
The New York Times Bestseller!In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that stained the game of baseball, at a time when so many players are so rich and therefore have a sense of entitlement that they haven't earned, ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian shows readers how to love the game more than ever, with incredible insight and stories that are hil... [Read More]
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Taking the Field: Women, Men, and Sports
- ASIN: 0816634491
- ISBN: 0816634491
- Brand: Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
In the past, when sport simply excluded girls, the equation of males with active athletic power and of females with weakness and passivity seemed to come easily, almost naturally. Now, however, with girlsOCO and womenOCOs dramatic movement into sport, the process of exclusion has become a bit subtler, a bit more complicated-and yet, as Michael Mess... [Read More]
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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
- ASIN: 0195076370
- ISBN: 9780195076370
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel Torrienti out at first base. The scout liked what he... [Read More]
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Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
- ASIN: B078LNK35F
- Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inside story of the Houston Astros and the innovators who took them from the worst team in baseball to the World Series in 2017 and 2019 “Superb . . . provides powerful insights into how organizations—not just baseball clubs—work best.”—The Wall Street JournalAstroball picks up where Michael Lewis�... [Read More]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- ASIN: 0312424302
- ISBN: 0312424302
- Brand: Picador USA
- Manufacturer: Picador
A 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 harrowing periods.By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam." And on a sweltering night in July, a ... [Read More]
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The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors
- ASIN: 1400066867
- ISBN: 9781400066865
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Chris Coste dreamed of playing major-league baseball from the age of seven. But after eleven grueling years in the minors, a spot on a major-league roster still seemed just out of his reach–until that fateful call came from the Philadelphia Phillies in May 2006. At age thirty-three (“going on eighty”), Coste was finally heading to the big tim... [Read More]
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The Big Chair: The Smooth Hops and Bad Bounces from the Inside World of the Acclaimed Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager
- ASIN: 0735215723
- ISBN: 0735215723
- Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons
“An important contribution to 21st-century baseball literature. . . Mr. Colletti’s book might be even more groundbreaking [than Moneyball] in some ways: It’s a nearly unprecedented opportunity to see what running a baseball franchise looks like through the eyeballs of an actual general manager. . . [Colletti] has a gift for entertaining story... [Read More]
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Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir
- ASIN: 0684847957
- ISBN: 0684847957
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were ... [Read More]
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The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
- ASIN: 0374120927
- ISBN: 0374120927
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The New York Times bestselling author of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football “knocks it out of the park” (Vanity Fair) in this captivating blend of sports reportage and memoir, exploring the history of the 2016 World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs.Now a New York Times bestsellerWhen Rich Cohen was eight years old... [Read More]
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Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame
- ASIN: 0312650175
- ISBN: 0312650175
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys returns with the remarkable and inspiring story of one of the biggest comebacks in college football history.In the 1960's, Notre Dame's football program was in shambles. Little did anyone know, help was on its way in the form of Ara Parseghian, a controversial choice for head coac... [Read More]
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Study Hall: College Football, Its Stats and Its Stories
- ASIN: 1484989961
- ISBN: 1484989961
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Study Hall is an accessible, enjoyable look at the world of college football through the eyes of coaches, writers, and numbers geeks. The first of its kind, this book explores college football's current events, numbers, and tactics from a number of perspectives. It is an attempt to bridge the gap between the analytical side of the game and its real... [Read More]
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My First Book of Football: A Rookie Book (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book) (Sports Illustrated Kids Rookie Books)
- ASIN: 1618931512
- ISBN: 1618931512
- Brand: Time Inc Home Entertaiment
- Manufacturer: Sports Illustrated Kids
Introducing the Rookie Book series from the #1 sports brand for kids--featuring pro-sports action photography!SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS kicks off the football season with a brand-new series to help young readers learn the rules, plays, and basics about popular sports. In the first Rookie Book, My First Book of Football, an illustrated rookie player c... [Read More]
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