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The Summer Game by Roger Angell 9780803259515
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.40"Page for page, The Summer Game contains not only the classiest but also the most resourceful baseball writing I have ever read."-New York Times Book ReviewThe Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book... -
Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $26.33Five Seasons covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the "most significant half decade in the history of the game." The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of... -
No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing by Joe Bonomo 9781496234780
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.33Legendary 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... -
William Maxwell: A Literary Life by Barbara A. Burkhardt 9780252075834
Booksplease Price: $39.69Known as a beloved, longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with such legendary writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, and John Cheever. His own... -
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Booksplease Price: $40.26You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by... -
The Elements of Style by William I. Strunk
RRP: $21.09Booksplease Price: $20.60You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by... -
Make Your Own Pirate Ship Clare Beaton 9781902915203
RRP: $9.48Booksplease Price: $8.66A simple, easy pirate ship scene to create from the cover and insides of the book. Simply fold out the ship on the cover, slot in the sails and flags and add the press-out background waves. Then have... -
Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander
RRP: $7.58Booksplease Price: $6.44J. D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American literary scene with the classic Bildungsroman The... -
Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback by George Plimpton
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions' pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit,... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2013 by Sid Holt 9780231162258
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.14Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award-winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This... -
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton spent a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA... -
Out of my League: An Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball by George Plimpton 9780224100410
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. George Plimpton had the chance to answer every baseball fan's question: could I... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2015 by Sid Holt
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.14This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For... -
Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety by Donald Hall
Booksplease Price: $26.01Now nearing ninety, Hall delivers a new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He... -
The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski 9781982180584
Booksplease Price: $57.65NEW 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... -
The Fireballer: A Novel by Mark Stevens
Booksplease Price: $22.38A poignant story about hopes, dreams, and how far one man's talent takes him before he realizes it's about what you do-and how you do it. Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field-his...