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SABR 50 at 50 celebrates and highlights the Society for American Baseball Research's wide-ranging contributions to baseball history. Established in 1971 in Cooperstown, New York, SABR has sought to foster and disseminate the research of baseball-with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496219459Author Chris LambFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g

Buzzie and the Bull chronicles a baseball year in the lives of two lifelong friends who couldn’t be more different: Buzzie Bavasi, the legendary general manager of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, and Al “the Bull” Ferrara, bon vivant, fountain of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492250708Author Mark StallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490320540Author Carroll ConklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484135280Author Carroll ConklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781483974859Author Carroll ConklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491774359Author Mikel D SmithFormat PaperbackImprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 440g

Baseball has produced some notably strange plays-like Randy Johnson's fastball dismantling a bird-yet there have been many that defy belief. Beginning with Todd Frazier tricking umpires into calling an out with a rubber ball and culminating in Al...

One of the greatest pitchers of his era, William Arthur "Candy" Cummings was born in 1848, when baseball was in its infancy. As the game evolved through the 1870s, Candy's invention, the curveball, played a transformative role. His stamp on...

Since 1971, 35 Negro League baseball players and executives have been admitted to the Hall of Fame. The Negro League Hall of Fame admissions process, which has now been conducted in four phases over a 50-year period, can be characterized as idiosyncratic...

For a variety of reasons, the 1908 American League pennant race has received much less attention from baseball historians than what happened in the National League that year. Yet the AL's race, involving the league's four westernmost teams, was equally...

The Cubs were at the end of the best five-season run of any team in history, based regular season wins. The team featured Three Finger Brown, the famed double play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, and the other players who together won 530 games...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494368678Author Christopher ForestFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492854951Author MR Thomas J PyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467946742Author MR Bobby HaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 127g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460986561Author Chuck HildebrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455511884Author Larry ColtonFormat HardbackPage Count 321Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453847312Author Tom SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 133g

This work is a complete history of the Southern Association, beginning with 1885, the year the Southern League began, and ending with 1961, the year it went out of business. Each chapter covers one year of the Southern Association's history and contains...

Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of...

It was a novel experiment as baseball's leading men formed the National Association, bringing order to the hodgepodge of professional and amateur clubs that made up the sport from the end of the Civil War through 1870. It was an imperfect beginning to...

The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest...

Ty Cobb was considered the greatest baseball player of his time. Some still call him the greatest in history. He cast a shadow over the entire game of baseball with his violence, both on the field and off. The shadow was never darker than when it was...

Homer-by-homer, this heavily researched work recounts the inimitable Babe Ruth's finest season. In that magical 1927 season, Ruth blasted homers off 33 different pitchers and hit at least one against every American League opponent. Two hurlers yielded...

The stolen base is one of the most fascinating plays in all of sports. In no other sport is the opportunity present for the offence to literally take away what belongs to the defence. In other sports it is the ball (or puck) that must do the scoring; in...

Ron Necciai once struck out 27 hitters in a nine-inning minor league game. Floyd Giebell beat Bob Feller to clinch the 1940 American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers. John Paciorek had three hits in three at bats in his big league debut-and never...

The book is the day by day story of the 1954 Indians, whose .721 winning percentage is still the highest in American League history. It tells how down the city of Cleveland was on the team following three straight second place finishes, how little was...

Described as ""the Greatest Batsman in the Country"" by sports writers of his era, Dennis ""Big Dan"" Brouthers compiled a .342 batting average, tying with Babe Ruth for ninth place all-time, and slugged 205...

On the average major league roster, Hispanic or Latin-born players today account for at least 25 percent of the team. In 1900 there were none; in 1911 the number had crept to two; and after World War II when American GI's returned to the playing fields,...

This is the first book-length biography of Ed McKean, one of the nineteenth-century's premier shortstops. It is also the story of the so-called Emerald Age of baseball and leading Irish figures including Patsy Tebeau, Jimmy McAleer, John MGraw, and...