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Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short...

for SATB and piano Written for the BBC Last night of the Proms, this sensitive setting of the well-known Irish folk song does justice to the beauty of the original melody. Chilcott's harmonic subtleties add to the poignancy of the lyrics, expressing...

In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for more than 80 years. Vander Meer was just 23 at the time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919104Author Mike VaccaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 207mm *...

Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, and Howard Johnson, winning another...

"This is one of the very best baseball books in years." Booklist, Starred ReviewReaching the major leagues is a pipe dream for most young baseball players in America. Very few ever get to live it out. A select number of those players face the elation and...

"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 Bad Guys Won In 1971, a small-town high school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475459Author Zack HampleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

America's Classic Ballparks takes you out to the ballgame with an interactive tour through America's ballpark landmarks.Baseball parks are as American as apple pie and America's Classic Ballparks commemorates nine ballparks guaranteed to spark nostalgia...

The definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 13 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is at once one of America's best-loved and least known heroes. The...

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This 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 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, to the anomalous...

The 1948 World Series gave fans an unusual showdown—neither of the contestants had seen the Fall Classic for a generation. The Cleveland Indians had last won the American League pennant in 1920. The Boston Braves had not been atop the National League...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563378Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932391923Author The Editors of Baseball AmericaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Baseball AmericaPublisher Baseball AmericaWeight(grams)...

For most baseball teams, the 2020 season was a strange, short, fanless diversion--but not in Los Angeles. After years of frustrating playoff runs, they finally reclaimed the World Series trophy after more than 30 years, led by their star pitcher, Clayton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060889388Author Cait MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060883966Author Roger KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

After a productive off-season highlighted by adding new manager Alex Cora and slugger J.D. Martinez, the Boston Red Sox had high expectations for the 2018 campaign. They met those lofty goals in dominant fashion by winning the 2018 World Series, the...

11 in '11 is a thoroughly reported chronicle of an unparalleled season, packed with interviews with key players, team executives, broadcasters, and more Of the 11 World Series titles the St. Louis Cardinals have won in their formidable history, 2011's...

Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307701541Author Paul GoldbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009796Author Howard BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312332655Author Bill FelberFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588345714Author Stephen WongFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 2g

Lawrence"Yogi" Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey told him, too-right to Berra's face, in fact. Even the lowly St. Louis Browns of his youth said he'd never...

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the "holy book of baseball." Now, baseball's beloved "Sultan of Stats" (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950716753Author Baseball ProspectusFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Baseball ProspectusPublisher Baseball ProspectusWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933599403Author Gary GilletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Society for American Baseball ResearchPublisher Society for American Baseball...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637275955Author Michael YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph Books

A three-time World Series winner and an early inductee into the Hall of Fame, lauded by Babe Ruth as the finest defensive outfielder he ever saw, and described as “perfection on the field” by the great Grantland Rice, Tris Speaker enjoys the peculiar...

A wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot-Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640480070Author Ace McCloudFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Pro Mastery PublishingPublisher Pro Mastery PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm)...

The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were heavily composed of first- and second-generation Americans and based in New York, the epicenter of baseball;...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950716814Author Baseball ProspectusFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Baseball ProspectusPublisher Baseball ProspectusWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743294041Author John ThornFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

Civil unrest at home, war abroad, and political uncertainty gripped the nation as the 1970s approached. In the summer of 1969, as a tumultuous decade of American history neared its end, Major League Baseball presented sports fans with a thrilling...