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Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over .300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing, tough-talking hustler, he had a fiery disposition on the field which led many sportswriters, teammates and opposing players to refer to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732253216Author Doug ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Homemade PublishingPublisher Homemade PublishingWeight(grams) 419g

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One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport-fairness, competition, and mythology-came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540231598Author Travis HaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams) 408g

This comprehensive survey of major league baseball looks at the national pastime's legendary figures, major innovations, and pivotal moments, from the beginning of the twentieth century through World War II. In America's Game: A History of Major League...

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Originally published in 1999, Daniel Paisner's THE BALL: Mark McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream was hailed as "one of the great quirky masterpieces of baseball journalism" by the editors of Sportsjones.com, and named an...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643882321Author William H BrewsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint William H. BrewsterPublisher William H. BrewsterWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628383270Author Bob MarchinettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 549g

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fan's love, a fiction writer's eye, and an essayist's sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line...

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...

Honus Wagner's spectacular baseball career spanned 21 seasons from 1897 through 1917. Widely considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history, Wagner won eight National League batting titles and helped win the pennant four times for his hometown...

Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the ""asterisk"" next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried the game through its most pivotal changes - television, continued integration, West...

The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime's top level. But no competitor to establishment baseball ever exerted so much influence on its rival, with some of the most recognizable...

Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant...

From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty O’Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball’s greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan. Lefty O’Doul (1897–1969) began his career on the...

During 75 seasons of baseball (1946-2020), 71 teams in 21 minor leagues represented 35 Canadian cities, playing either under the aegis of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (called Minor League Baseball since 1999) or independently...

Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis ""Pud"" Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 17-year career pitching for Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St. Louis, he was one of the best-paid...

The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky ""Bleeping"" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker...

Profiles 200 of the most memorable players to have donned Boston's red, white, and blue. Some, like Ted Williams, enjoyed long, illustrious careers with the Red Sox. Others, like Smokey Joe Wood, shone brightly for only a brief period. Together, these...

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The inside story of the Detroit Tigers' unforgettable 1984 season In 1984, fantasy became reality in the Motor City. Led by ace Jack Morris, a historic season from lefty Willie Hernandez, and a thumping lineup powered by Kirk Gibson, Chet Lemon, and...

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More than 300 ballplayers have spent time with both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, opposing teams in one of the most intense rivalries in sports. This book examines the century long antagonism between the two clubs, chronicling their...

The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants - the National League's greatest teams in its early days - took hold with the founding of the league in 1876. Between the two bitter rivals there were nine first-second finishes, eight...

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In 1916, over 500 men played in a major league game. Many of those players' names are inseparable from baseball - 39 are members of the Hall of Fame - while others have only one line in the record books. Some enjoyed highly productive careers after...

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Throughout the twentieth century, baseball has been blessed with a slew of colorful characters, funny men, and "flakes." And though many fans lament the apparent vanishing of such players, there are still plenty of characters in the game today...