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Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game Is Played by Bob Gibson Publisher Comments Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective. Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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Wicked Good Year: How the Red Sox, Patriots & Celtics Turned the Hub of the Universe Into the Capital of Sports by Steve Buckley Publisher Comments From the fall of 2007 through the spring of 2008, Boston sports fans enjoyed a run of good fortune that was unprecedented in sports history. The Red Sox won their second World Series championship in four years. The Celtics, with their newly assembled big... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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Chief Bender: A Baseball Biography by Robert Peyton Wiggins Synopsis Hall of Famer Charles Albert Bender has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, as researchers have usefully described his experiences as an American Indian in a game played mostly by whites. Lost in the discussion, however, are Bender's... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Opposite Field: A Memoir by Jesse Katz Publisher Comments Here is one of the most remarkable, ambitious, and utterly original memoirs of this generation, a story of the losing and finding of self, of sex and love and fatherhood and the joy of language, of death and failure and heartbreak, of Los Angeles and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912 by Mike Vaccaro Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Mike Vaccaro presents a riveting, must-read account of what remains, nearly a century later, the greatest World Series ever played. In October of 1912, seven years before gambling nearly destroyed the sport, the world of baseball got... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Baseball Trivia Diecut Calendar 2010 by Not Available (na) Synopsis For fans who live, think, and breathe baseball, it doesn't get better than this: a full year of fascinating stats, rules, records, Q&As, and factoids, in a calendar die-cut in the shape of a baseball. Every day, feed your obsession with World Series... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Unknown
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The Yankee Years by Joe Torre Publisher Comments Twelve straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael M. Lewis Publisher Comments The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-Stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds by Joe Posnanski Publisher Comments There are memorable teams in baseball--and then there are utterly unforgettable teams like the 1975 Cincinnati Reds. From 1972 to 1976, the franchise known as the Big Red Machine dominated the National League, winning four division crowns, three league... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Perfect: Don Larsen's Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen by Lew Paper Publisher Comments Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers remains the only no-hit game in World Series history and was described by The New York Times as the greatest moment in World Series history. Drawing... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn Publisher Comments This is a book about some young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s in such places as Reading, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Indiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; Woonsocket, Rhode Island; and then went on to play for one of the most... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy Publisher Comments Nobody ever threw a baseball better than Sandy Koufax. He dominated the game -- and the ball, making it rise, break, sing. Then, after his best season, in 1966, he was gone, retired at age thirty, leaving behind a reputation as the game's greatest lefty... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shoeless Joe by W P Kinsella Publisher Comments " Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope." THE BOSTON GLOBE The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: " If you build it, he will come." " He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan by Dana Brand Synopsis Brand details the final two seasons of the Mets in Shea Stadium, capturing the complex emotions experienced by fans in two consecutive seasons in which the Mets were eliminated from contention on the final day of the regular seasons.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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You Gotta Have Wa (Vintage Departures) by Robert Whiting Publisher Comments An important element in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down". But what if the nail is a visiting American player? Here's a look at Japanese baseball, as seen by baffled... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball (Honoring a Detroit Legend) by Tom Keegan Publisher Comments As the voice of the Detroit Tigers for over 30 years, Ernie Harwell was a much beloved figure and a Hall of Fame broadcaster. This memoir, like its subject, is filled with unforgettable and historical stories. Photos. Radio and TV tour.... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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As They See 'em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber Publisher Comments Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It (Sport in American Life) by Warren Corbett Synopsis One of the most influential--and controversial--figures in baseball of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Paul Richards was a player, manager, and general manager, a participant in many of the historic changes that marked the end of baseball as we knew it... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Summer of '49 by David Halberstam Publisher Comments David Halberstam's New York Timesbestselling classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royale between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for the heart of a nation. With incredible skill, passion... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye Publisher Comments He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy Satchel Paige. Few reliable... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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