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  • Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms

    • ASIN: 0735289867
    • ISBN: 0735289867
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: WaterBrook

    New York Times bestsellerWho are you when life is steady? Who are you when storms come? Most of us have been on the receiving end of rejection, a broken dream, or heartbreak. And while this is not an easy space to go through, when we are grounded in the truth, we can endure the tough times. In this powerful book, Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow ... [Read More]

  • Baseball in a Grain of Sand: Seeing the Game Through a Small Town Season

    • ASIN: 1476673179
    • ISBN: 1476673179
    • Manufacturer: McFarland & Company

    Part sports journalism, part history, part memoir, this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow, Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life, the author draws on the lore of the game, and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his so... [Read More]

  • Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

    • ASIN: B00125L8BW
    • Manufacturer: Multnomah

  • The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR

    • ASIN: 1932595813
    • ISBN: 1932595813
    • Brand: Brand: Feral House
    • Manufacturer: Feral House

    Professional sports in America: it's all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that's the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible?Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of th... [Read More]

  • The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers

    • ASIN: 0062360574
    • ISBN: 0062360574
    • Brand: HARPER
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    Winner of the 2016 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearFinalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingFrom an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s—a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation in transition during one of the most exciting and unsettled decades in h... [Read More]

  • Joy in Tigertown: A Determined Team, a Resilient City, and our Magical Run to the 1968 World Series

    • ASIN: B079J6XCJL
    • Manufacturer: Triumph Books

    The 1968 World Series remains one of the most iconic in major league history. Featuring Bob Gibson in MVP form, Al Kaline, and Mickey Lolich, it was baseball at its best. Told with the vibrant first-hand perspective of Lolich himself and the expertise of award-winning Detroit journalist Tom Gage, this is the remarkable saga of that 1968 season whic... [Read More]

  • Pitch Please (There's No Crying in Baseball Book 1)

    • ASIN: B071GF4VXV

    Baseball is life, the rest is just details.Everyone who’s played the game has heard those words a time or two. But Hancock has heard them his entire life from his parents. His family has lived and breathed baseball even before he started little league.Hancock “Parts” Peters has a name that inspires grins across many faces, but the moment thos... [Read More]

  • Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

    • ASIN: 0062490222
    • ISBN: 0062490222
    • Brand: MORROW
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means for the future of the sport.For decades, statis... [Read More]

  • Sweeping the Series (Balls in Play Book 3)

    • ASIN: B07BR5RRSS

    Ren Makavoy is one season away from realizing his Major League dreams. Unfortunately, his bad-boy reputation off the field has landed him in hot water. Ren swears his days of drinking, brawling, and seducing starlets are over, but management sees fit to bring in PR to clean up his act. Determined to prove himself as a reputable catcher, his plans o... [Read More]

  • Own To Obey (Myth of Omega Book 7)

    • ASIN: B07L54Z2BR
    • Manufacturer: Quill Ink Books

    He owns her - and now she must obeyWhen Shaya suddenly ends up in the possession of a fierce, tribal, Alpha warrior, she begins to understand that life can be savage...And painful.And heart-breakingly beautiful.What readers are saying:★★★★★ "I have devoured this book in a matter of hours. I COULD NOT put this book down!"★★★★★ "T... [Read More]

  • The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

    • ASIN: B07J4WG7FF
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players. As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies t... [Read More]

  • The Tigers of '68: Baseball's Last Real Champions

    • ASIN: B00KE0ACA4
    • Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing

    They had two future Hall of Famers, the last pitcher to win thirty games, and a supporting cast of some of the most peculiar individuals ever to play in the majors. But more than that, the 1968 Detroit Tigers symbolize a lost era in baseball.It was a time before runaway salaries and designated hitters. Before divisional playoffs and drug suspension... [Read More]

  • The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0061994715
    • ISBN: 0061994715
    • Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    Baseball was different in earlier days—tougher, rawer, more intimate—when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.

  • Bottom of the Ninth: Game On in Seattle (Seattle Skookums Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01JDCO1V4
    • Manufacturer: Cedrona Enterprises

    This long-awaited story of the third Wolfe brother introduces the Seattle Skookums baseball team. Zeke Wolfe, the man who’s written off his entire family, rescues a young woman and three children on a stormy Seattle night. Before he knows it, he has an instant family and a fake fiancé he’s certain he doesn’t want.Paisley Madison dreams of h... [Read More]

  • Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star (Sports and American Culture)

    • ASIN: 0826221602
    • ISBN: 0826221602
    • Manufacturer: University of Missouri

    Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presente... [Read More]

  • The Track in the Forest: The Creation of a Legendary 1968 US Olympic Team

    • ASIN: 0897339371
    • ISBN: 0897339371
    • Brand: Chicago Review Press
    • Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press

    The 1968 US men’s Olympic track and field team won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, one of the most dominant performances in Olympic history. The team featured such legends as Tommie Smith, Bob Beamon, Al Oerter, and Dick Fosbury. Fifty years later, the team is mostly remembered for embodying the tumultuous socia... [Read More]

  • Sugar and Ice (Rinkside in the Rockies Series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01N2K092C

    Sugar and Ice is the first full-length novel in the Rinkside in the Rockies Series by Aven Ellis!Josephine Rossi has recovered from a broken heart, but has vowed that she's all about the desserts now as a recipe tester for Bake It! Magazine. Cheesecake never breaks your heart. Unless it cracks on the top, but still, it tastes amazing if you bake it... [Read More]

  • The Tumult and the Shouting: My Life in Sport

    • ASIN: B07B3Z4LCS
    • Manufacturer: Papamoa Press

    50 YEARS OF SPORT AS SEEN BY THE CHAMPION OF ALL SPORTS WRITERS‘This isn’t, praise be, a formal book. It is no literary exercise in balanced sentences and the painfully selected word. This is Grant Rice talking, rambling happily along, tell again in his wonderful way the wonderful stories he loved to tell.‘They are great tales of men and deed... [Read More]

  • The Boys of Summer (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

    • UPC: 201560883960
    • ASIN: 0060883960
    • ISBN: 0060883960
    • Brand: Kahn, Roger
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1... [Read More]

  • Wilson A700 12.5" Baseball Glove - Right Hand Throw

    • UPC: 887768710958
    • ASIN: B07FQSGP8R
    • Brand: Wilson
    • Size: 12.5"
    • Manufacturer: Wilson Sporting Goods - Team

    The all-new A700 line of Wilson gloves are the epitome of game-ready. Designed with soft, full grain cowhide leather, this Blonde 12.5" single post web WTA07RB19125 gives you the perfect feel without the added bulk of other gloves.

  • Eric Karros ranks his Top 5 teams in baseball | MLB WHIPAROUND

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