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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307280329Author Zack HampleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

An unprecedented look inside the world of baseball scouting and evaluation from two of the industry's top prospect analysts For the modern Major League team, player evaluation is a complex, multi-pronged, high-tech pursuit. But far from becoming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472675Author Joe PosnanskiFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

For more than a century the owners of baseball franchises conducted their business like feudal barons, with the players in the role of serfs. This situation began to change in 1966, when the Major League Baseball Players Association was formed and Marvin...

Officially 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.A beautiful book every baseball fan should own, The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812978704Author George VecseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library...

Knots have been around for thousands of years - even Neolithic man tied the reef knot, clove hitch and running noose. There are several thousand knots in existence and an almost infinite number of variations. This reference manual and practical handbook...

'No one does it better than Grisham' - Telegraph A father's guilt. A son's redemption. Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062097637Author Jeff PearlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692921838Author Darrin DonnellyFormat PaperbackImprint Shamrock New Media, Inc.Publisher Shamrock New Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 277g

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." -New York Post * "Stellar." -The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." -BookPage (starred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425965730Author Chuck, NanFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 352g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802123763Author Ben BlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The Dodgers: 60 Years in Los Angeles chronicles the team's thrilling, roller coaster history since arriving in the West Coast from Brooklyn. Featuring the stellar talents and memorable personalities of Dodgers greats such as Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888672Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 20mm

There is more to becoming a great pitcher than sound mechanics, a blazing fastball, and a live arm. A pitcher must know how to pitch-what to throw, when to throw it, and where to locate it. He must have a me-versus-you mind-set, that unique blend of...

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Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544529219Author Jesse ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a "southpaw?" Why are major league pitchers normally limited to 100 pitches per game? Why was Jack Roosevelt Robinson the first African-American ever to play as part of an official lineup for a team...

In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game.The theory and applications are illustrated by anecdotes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062940025Author Devin GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

In 1937, when local beer baron Emil Sick stepped in, the Seattle Indians were a struggling minor-league baseball team teetering on collapse. Moved to mix baseball and beer by his good friend and fellow brewer, New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, Sick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563248Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

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...

No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre...

When the National Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its first class of players in 1936, Ty Cobb received more votes than any other player-even more than did fellow inductee Babe Ruth. Cobb, known as the Georgia Peach, was universally recognized as the best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553287585Author Larry BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

With a New Afterword: THE INSIDE STORY OF WHAT WENT WRONG AFTER 2016! David Kaplan of CSN Chicago and ESPN Radio goes behind the scenes with the Cubs and their front office, walking the steps of their captivating rise to becoming 2016 World Series...

When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his "investments." But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953563118Author Ray WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Hrp HousePublisher Hrp HouseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

From its inception, Sports Illustrated has chronicled baseball's greatest spectacle: the World Series. Now, SI celebrates the grandeur and spirit of the Fall Classic with a deluxe commemorative book featuring the magazine's iconic photography alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735162706Author David L AngeronFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint John Melvin PublishingPublisher John Melvin PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Boston Red Sox are the most winning baseball team in the 21st century with four World Series titles, and they're not slowing down any time soon. Two of the most prominent organizations in Boston, The Boston Globe and the Boston Red Sox, combine to...

The only book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year, Peter Morris's magisterial encyclopedia of the national pastime will surprise, delight, and educate even the most knowledgeable fan. With its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060854041Author Joe PosnanskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm)...

Sports Illustrated Baseball is a complete and sate-of-the-art teaching guide by one of the nation's foremost college coaches. Former Major Leaguer Jerry Kindall shows you: The keys to improving you hitting, running, fielding, and throwing How to...

PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University...

If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball's great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541698925Author Ben LindberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 30mm