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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938545429Author Michael SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Summer Game BooksPublisher Summer Game BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286824Author Seth MnookinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members...

This work focuses on the Norfolk team (nicknamed the Mary Janes), which played in the Virginia, Eastern and Atlantic leagues. Much attention is given to the players, coaches and teams of the Virginia League and the local news coverage from 1884...

This work covers one of the most controversial pennant races in baseball history. The Brooklyn Dodgers were leading the pennant race by 13 games in early August when the New York Giants installed a powerful telescope in one of their clubhouse windows...

Using the colorful and tumultuous 1960s as a backdrop, acclaimed author Thomas J. Whalen’s Spirit of ’67: The Cardiac Kids, El Birdos, and the World Series That Captivated America shows how the Red Sox and Cardinals waged an epic battle for baseball...

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, baseball's minor leagues cancelled their seasons. A few independent leagues tried abbreviated schedules, but all Major League affiliates shut down--for the first time in more than 120 years. Since then, Major League...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798350987539Author Randy FrekingFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint BookbabyPublisher Bookbaby

A facsimile edition of the 1953 history of the Philadelphia PhilliesFred Lieb and Stan Baumgartner's history of the Philadelphia Phillies was originally published in 1953 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668030929Author John MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon & Schuster

The unlikely story of one of baseball's greatest comeback seasons The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place as late as mid-July of 1914. This rough gang was led by...

Analytics, technology, and the most ambitious rewrite of the rulebook in fifty years have reshaped baseball. Benjamin G. Rader's account of the American pastime moves from diamonds scratched out of commons and corn fields to the multimedia theme parks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252046414Author Don ZmindaFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

Winner of the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title When Baseball before We Knew It was first published in 2005, it shattered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252088490Author Don ZmindaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois PressWeight(grams) 454g

Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies...

Starting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever published about both teams during the late 1990s and the...

Ron Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with an outsized personality, entertaining many, offending a few, and hiding behind a cheerful and outrageous persona until...

If there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher "Christy" Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamblers' benefit. Mathewson changed all that. When he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476695976Author Phil CoffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

This book chronicles the history of the Philadelphia Athletics, the first real dynasty in Major League Baseball. The focus of the book is the 1931 season, where Philadelphia, led by is superstar pitcher, Lefty Grove, had the best season in franchise...

In Diamond Duels: Baseball's Greatest Matchups, we take a magnifying glass to some of the game's most entertaining and historic battles between hitters and pitchers, played out over breezy spring evenings, hot summer afternoons, and chilly fall evenings...

"Anyone who has love for the game of baseball will enjoy this remarkable book." Library Journal, Starred ReviewIn Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless...

A fascinating look back at the incredible lives and careers of Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, part of the second generation of Black ballplayers who followed in the footsteps of Jackie Robinson.Professional baseball has featured a bevy of superstars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960819093Author Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Society for American Baseball ResearchPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476696225Author Chris JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

A fascinating look back on baseball's humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominated the game.The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of "base...

Call it the forgotten rivalry. The Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers may not share geographical boundaries, and today they don't even play in the same division, but for a period of time in the 1970s Dodgers vs. Reds was the best rivalry in...

Professional baseball took root in America in the 1860s during the same years that the sons of the first wave of Irish famine refugees began to reach adulthood, and the Irish quickly demonstrated a special affinity for baseball. This is a survey of...

Professional baseball has always consisted of a variety of characters, from likeable youngsters to notorious rebels. From 1871 to the present, the sport has witnessed the likes of Germany Schaeffer, an infielder with a penchant for "stealing" first base;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291768Author Bill BallewFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103312Author Richard A. SantillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

In Tumultuous Times in America's Game: From Jackie Robinson's Breakthrough to the War over Free Agency, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a comprehensive examination of major developments and key figures in Major League Baseball from the integration of...

Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340043Author Frank M WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies' unexpected run at the National League pennant. Nearly a decade of continuous defeat had earned them little more than the reputation for an unprecedented record of...

Willie McCovey, known as "Stretch," played Major League Baseball from 1959 to 1980, most notably as a member of the San Francisco Giants for nineteen seasons. A fearsome left-handed power hitter, McCovey ranked second only to Babe Ruth in career home...

An entertaining and illuminating inside look at Major League Baseball through the words of the players themselves.Imagine you had the opportunity to sit down with ballplayers such as Hank Aaron, Greg Maddux, Don Zimmer, and Nolan Ryan. You might ask them...

On a chilly Sunday, December 7, 1941, major league baseball's owners gathered in Chicago for their annual winter meetings, just two months after one of baseball's greatest seasons. For the owners, the attack on Pearl Harbor that morning was also an...