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Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-The-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them by Tim Hagerty Publisher Comments Root for the Home Team includes profiles of more than 150 teams and lists of hundreds more—plus fun facts, action shots, and team logos. Impress your baseball buddies with your depth of knowledge! Did you know? The Altoona Curve were dubbed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Baseball Prospectus 2012 (Baseball Prospectus) by King (edt) Kaufman Publisher Comments The 2012 Edition of the New York Times bestselling guide "The Best Book Of Its Kind." —Rob Neyer Now in its seventeenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: the 2012 edition includes key stat... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong by The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts and Jonah Keri Publisher Comments Since the baseball statistics revolution began in the 1970s, no one had written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball think about numbers and the game. Until... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession by Dave Jamieson Synopsis When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his “investments.” But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Baseball Feats, Facts & Firsts (Great Baseball Feats, Facts & Firsts) by David Nemec Publisher Comments From A-Rod to Albert Pujols... It's all here: the all-time winners and losers, old games, new games, stars, scandals and scores. Discover the unconventional, the offbeat feats, the historic moments, and the one-of-a-kind characters that have kept... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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Perfect: The Inside Story of Baseball's Twenty Perfect Games by James Buckley, Jr. Publisher Comments Among baseball achievements, the perfect game—one in which no runners reach base—remains the greatest. Though many have come close, only 20 pitchers have achieved such perfection in more than a century of baseball. This exhaustive... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball by Vince Gennaro Synopsis Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful, and analytical look at the business of baseball. Using the win-revenue relationship as a foundation, author Vince Gennaro delves deeply to explain how a team's level of competitiveness impacts the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Baseball Maniac's Almanac: The Absolutely, Positively, and Without Question Greatest Book of Facts, Figures, and Astonishing Lists Ever Compiled (Baseball Maniac's Almanac: Absolutely, Positively by Bert Randolph Sugar Publisher Comments An addictive read that is sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, The Baseball Maniac's Almanac is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the greatest, most unusual, and thorough compendium of baseball stats and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bill James Handbook (Bill James Handbook) by Bill James Publisher Comments Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2012 is the best and most complete annual baseball reference guide available today. You cannot find a more comprehensive resource out there, and the competition makes readers wait until months after the season ends to... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball by Scott Gray Publisher Comments Speed for a pitcher is like looks for a girlfriend. It is meaningful but not determinative. — Bill James Bill James has been called baseball's shrewdest analyst (Slate), the Sultan of Stats (Boston Globe), and part of baseball legend (New Yorker... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom Tango Synopsis Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James's Baseball Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn's The Hidden Game of Baseball left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus by Baseball Prospectus The Publisher Comments In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteen years... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players by Frederick E Taylor Publisher Comments Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. Managers pore over batting averages to determine game day lineups and batting orders; high number of runs batted in and low earned run averages receive praise from the press, higher salaries from the front office,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Hardcover
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The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball by Sheldon Hirsch Publisher Comments Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Baseball Maniac's Almanac: The Absolutely, Positively, and Without Question Greatest Book of Facts, Figures, and Astonishing Lists Ever Compiled (Baseball Maniac's Almanac: Absolutely, Positively by Bert Randolph Sugar Publisher Comments An addictive read, sure to spark conversation wherever baseball is spoken, the third edition of The Baseball Maniac's Almanac is part reference, part trivia, part brain teaser, and absolutely the greatest, most unusual, and thorough compendium of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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MVP by Robert Cohen Publisher Comments Every year, tens of millions of baseball fans vociferously debate and anxiously anticipate the annual merits of MVP candidates: This fascinating and provocative book covers every era of baseball, supporting the MVP choices or trashing the winners and... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Baseball Fantography: A Celebration in Snapshots and Stories from the Fans by Andy Strasberg Publisher Comments Baseball Fantography is a celebration of baseball through the eyes of fans via photos theyve taken of players, ballparks, and related subjects over the past nine decades, along with essays, sidebars, and quotes. The project originated when the author... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Baseball Encyclopedia by Macmillan Publishing Publisher Comments The classic reference for basketball statistics, past and present Celebrating its tenth edition, The Baseball Encyclopedia is recognized worldwide as the authoritative source for baseball statistics. The Baseball Encyclopedia was first published in 1969... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Watching Baseball Smarter (07 Edition) by Hample Publisher Comments Whether youre a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a beginner, Watching Baseball Smarter leaves no territory uncovered. In this smart and funny fans guide Hample explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Baseball America Directory: Your Definitive Guide to the Game (Baseball America Directory) by Baseball America Publisher Comments The 2011 Baseball America Directory is the definitive reference guide for the upcoming season. The Directory features major, minor, and independent league schedules, ballpark directions, and how to get in touch with anyone in the game-by phone, fax or on... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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