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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145589Author Kevin WirthweinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g

So You Think You're a New York Mets Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Mets baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, this book will give you the details behind each stories that bring to life players and coaches, games...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600788024Author Jon ChattmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 281g

In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the...

A best-selling author and passionate baseball fan takes a tough-minded look at America's most traditional game in our twenty-first-century culture of digital distraction Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600781674Author Steve "Psycho" LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 346g

When the Empire of Japan defeated the Chinese Qing Dynasty in 1895 and won its first colony, Taiwan, it worked to establish it as a model colony. The Japanese brought Taiwan not only education and economic reform but also a new pastime made popular in...

Jerrold Casway's captivating biography of legendary baseball player Ed Delahanty (1867-1903) offers a compelling examination of the life and career of the first "King of Swatsville," including the enigma surrounding his tragic and untimely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310638Author Prof Lee CongdonFormat HardbackImprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 386g

1954,A triumphant season for black ballplayers and the countryaward-winning New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season, drawn largely from exclusive recent interviews with the...

The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroidsIn Playing Through the Pain: The Life of Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever,...

Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it's always been-in the Minor Leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history...

DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America...

One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre–World War I, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684426416Author Jim BoutonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600783128Author Fran ZimniuchFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 458g

2020 SABR Baseball Research AwardLast Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America's pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cesar Brioso takes the reader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944466374Author Margaret Salazar-PorzioFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian...

In 1937, the Great Depression was still lingering, but at baseball parks across the country there was a sense of optimism. Major League attendance was on a sharp rise. Tickets to an Indians game at League Park on Lexington and East 66th were $1.60 for...

With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes...

In spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around Chicago's and organized baseball's hierarchies, the new Weeghman Field (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home to...

The Immaculate Inning shines a light on the miracle of baseball's endless possibility-the way that on any given day, someone (maybe a star, or maybe a scrub) could perform the rarest of single-game feats or cap off a seemingly unobtainable chase for a...

Named Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest 2021 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in...

You may have seen Eight Men Out or Field of Dreams, but you won't really know the full story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox scandal of 1919 without reading Tim Hornbaker's book. "Haunting portrait of one of the game's most controversial and...

The Detroit Tigers have been marked neither by dynasties nor doldrums. The Tigers captured just four World Series championships since becoming a charter member of the junior circuit in 1901. They compiled a record barely above .500 during that 120-year...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780760369340Author James Buckley JrFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Epic Ink BooksPublisher Quarto Publishing Group USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062943569Author Alex SpeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 333gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season...

Put your baseball expertise to the test with over 600 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite baseball moments throughout history.Quiz yourself or compete with your friends! With challenging questions from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496243355Author Dale ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American...

The candid autobiography of all-star pitcher “Sudden Sam” McDowell, whose alcohol-fueled life quickly and famously spiraled out of control, and his ultimate redemption as a counselor for other athletes suffering from addiction.Sam McDowell seemed to have...

"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...

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A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in the East Bay. Oakland is a sports city like no other. It is the only city in America to be abandoned by the same team twice, with the Raiders most...

Now fully revised and updated, this is the definitive guide for Cleveland baseball fanatics!In 100 Things Guardians Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Zack Meisel has assembled the facts, traditions, and achievements sure to educate and entertain...

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...