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  • Deferred Glory

    Heroes of the Negro Baseball Leagues

    Deferred Glory: Heroes of the Baseball Negro Leagues is about the lives, struggles and desire of negroes to one day become professional baseball players in the Major Leagues. During this period of their lives, these players while playing in the Negro League endured tough traveling to ballparks in cities both in the South and North in order to play baseball.They suffered through segregation mostly ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Giants Were Giants

    Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball

    This is the story of a forgotten Giant--the man Baseball Magazine called in 1930 "baseball's greatest first baseman"--Bill Terry. Brought up from proverty and the obscurity of semipro ball in the South by the famed "Little Napoleon," manager John McGraw of the Giants, Terry developed into the team's key player in the 1920s. As America battled the Depression, the no-nonsense Terry replaced McGraw ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cobb

    A Biography

    by Al Stump ...
    A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes with this gripping look at a man who walked the line between greatness and psychosis. Based on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Brooklyn's Dodgers

    The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957

    During the 1952 World Series, a Yankee fan trying to watch the game in a Brooklyn bar was told, "Why don't you go back where you belong, Yankee lover?" "I got a right to cheer my team," the intruder responded, "this is a free country." "This ain't no free country, chum," countered the Dodger fan, "this is Brooklyn." Brooklynites loved their "Bums"--Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Bucs!

    The Story of the Pittsburgh Pirates

    Each generation of Pirate fans has been blessed with a pantheon of heroes: Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Only Way I Know

    With Highlights from the 1997 Season

    There aren't many Americans who didn't feel a lump in their throat watching Cal Ripken, Jr. take a historic jog around the bases on the evening of September 6, 1995—the night he smashed **Lou Gehrig'**s record number of 2,130 consecutively played games. But, as "the hardest working man in baseball" will tell you, he was just doing his job. And now he tells you just how he does it, why he does it, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Baseball in Detroit

    1886-1968

    Series series Images of America
    Baseball in Detroit documents nearly a century of this sport, following the Detroit Tigers closely.Covering over 80 years of America's favorite pastime, Baseball in Detroit 1886-1968 takes fans back to the glory days of Ty Cobb in the early 20th century and follows the progress of the Detroit Tigers. From the three-time pennant winners of this century's first decade to the last real championship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home of the Game

    The Story of Camden Yards

    by Thom Loverro ...
    Home of the Game celebrates the unique position Camden Yards holds as a symbol of the modern game and a prototype for new ballparks across the country. It reveals how this revolutionary ballpark has changed the face of baseball as a sport and a business. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Slide, Kelly, Slide

    The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly

    by Marty Appel ...
    Series Book 3 - American Sports History Series
    Mike "King" Kelly was the hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a celebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s. Slide, Kelly, Slide reacquaints baseball fans and scholars with this little-known pioneer of the game. Marty Appel, the author of several baseball books ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Where They Ain't

    The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball

    by Burt Solomon ...
    Greedy owners, spoiled players, disillusioned fans -- all hallmarks of baseball in the 'nineties. Only in this case, it's the 1890s. We may think that business interests dominate the sport today, but baseball's early years were an even harsher and less sentimental age, when teams were wrenched from their cities, owners colluded and the ballplayers held out, and the National League nearly turned ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Tigers and Their Den

    The Offical Story of the Detroit Tigers

    Share the fascinating stories about those who have brought to Detroit the unvarnished excitement unique to Tiger baseball. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Yankees Baseball

    The Golden Age

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated thegame of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as national icons, a time when men wearing baggy, flannel uniforms and sporting pancake gloves played for little more than �the love of the game.� In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen photographs, we meet the heroes that were the New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New York Giants

    A Baseball Album

    by Richard Bak ...
    Series series Images of Sports
    The New York Giants have sent more men to the Baseball Hall of Fame than any other team, a distinction that only begins to hint at the place this storied franchise holds in the long history of America�s national pastime. Between 1883 and 1957, a span of 75 summers, the Giants were one of professional sports� great dynasties. Aside from the17 National League pennants and 8 world pennants the team ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball in Tampa Bay

    Series series Images of Sports
    Tampa Bay�s interest in baseball spans from the sport�s earliest days to the region�s win of a national league franchise in the last decade of the 20th century. Hosting more major league spring training games than any other region inthe United States, Tampa has been home to a number of springtraining camps, for teams including the Chicago Cubs and the Washington Senators. St. Petersburg has played ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nine Innings

    The Anatomy of a Baseball Game

    by Daniel Okrent ...
    Brewers-Orioles, 6/10/82: “An astounding piece of sports journalism . . . the best book about the best game there is.” —St. Louis Post-DispatchA timeless baseball classic, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982—inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, New York Times–bestselling author and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee Brewers-Baltimore Orioles ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rube Waddell

    The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

    by Alan H. Levy ...
    George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • All Roads Lead to October

    Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign over the New York Yankees

    by Maury Allen ...
    All Roads Lead to October presents an up close and personal look at the New York Yankees under legendary owner George Steinbrenner.George Herman Ruth was the Babe.Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse.Joe DiMaggio was the Yankee Clipper.George Steinbrenner is the Boss.On a rainy January morning, 1973, a press conference is called that will change the face of the Yankees forever. A young Cleveland ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The American League: The Early Years

    Series series Images of Sports
    Showcasing two influential decades of home runs, stolen bases, and national heroes, David Lee Poremba invites us to take an in-depth look back through the history of baseball in The American League: The Early Years. Poremba has collected over 200 images and captions in this new volume that documents the fledgling American League and its charismatic teams, from its creation in 1901 to its lively ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of David: Baseball Team

    Series series Images of America
    The Israelite House of David was founded in 1903, as a religious colony in Benton Harbor, Michigan. An entrepreneurial group of worshippers, the colony contributed much to the community, including a traveling baseball team that toured the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The almost 200 images collected here by authors Joel Hawkins and Terry Bertolino document the history of this bearded, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Just a Game

    Players, Owners, and American Baseball to 1920

    America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work force: its ethnocultural makeup, its economic position, and its battles for a place at the table ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox

    Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox

    by Allan Wood ...
    Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox is the first complete account of Boston's fifth World Series championship. The year is famous, but most fans know very little about the season.During that tumultuous summer, the Great War in Europe cast an ominous shadow over the national game, as enlistments and the draft wreaked havoc with every team's roster. Players and owners fought bitterly over contracts and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Baseball in Asheville

    by Bill Ballew ...
    Series series Images of Baseball
    Baseball has served as the pastime of preference in Asheville, North Carolina, for more than a century. Nearly anywhere a flat lot can be found in the rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, baseball has been played by locals and visitors alike, with many of the city's greatest thrills created by the hometown Tourists, who have been mainstays in the professional ranks for most of the past 80 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shoeless

    The Life and Times of Joe Jackson

    "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning 2.50 a game. He emerged as the star of the team and a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Yankees Century

    Voices and Memories of the Pinstripe Past

    by Alan Ross ...
    Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no denying that the New York Yankees have won twenty-six world championships. No other team comes close to matching that record. Some clubs are fortunate enough to assemble a team that can be called a dynasty, most never come close — the Yankees have had five.Long before the 2000 World Series trophy was awarded, Alan Ross, a lifelong Yankees fan, began compiling a ... Read more

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