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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Chad Harbach - Little, Brown and Company
Format: eBook
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future.... |
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Henry W Wiggen
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Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw, became the best-known fictional baseball player in America. Now he is back again in Bang the Drum Slowly, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family.& |
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Brushback
K C Constantine
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When an ex-major league pitcher known as the Brushback Kid retires thanks to the pounding of a Louisville Slugger, Detective Rugs Carlucci ends the inning with the bases loaded with suspects, in the latest work by the author of Family Values. |
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Calico Joe
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball ... Whatever happened to Calico Joe? It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded... |
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Die Like an Eagle: A Meg Langslow Mystery
Donna Andrews - Dreamscape Media, LLC
Format: Audiobook
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Meg is Team Mom, and Michael is coach of their twin sons youth baseball team, the Caerphilly Eagles. Meg tangles with Biff Brown, the petty, vindictive league head. On opening day Biffs lookalike brother is found dead in the porta-potty at the ball field. So many people think Biffs scum... |
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Double play
Robert B. Parker - Putnam; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Bobby mindes barndommen i 1947, hvor han fascineret fulgte baseball-holdet Brooklyn Dodgers med den sorte spiller Jackie Robinson; Robinsons bodyguard, Joseph Burke, er tidligere soldat, fraskilt og desillusioneret. |
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Great Catch, A: A Novel (Lake Manawa Summers)
Lorna Seilstad - Revell
Format: Paperback
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It is the beginning of a new century at Lake Manawa Resort in Iowa, but some things never change. When 22-year-old Emily Graham's meddlesome aunts and grandmother take it upon themselves to find her a husband among the resort guests, the spunky suffragist is determined to politely decline... |
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Magic Time
W.P.Kinsella - Voyageur Press
Format: Book
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Magic Time is vintage Kinsella. It is a novel of hope and promise and baseball that becomes humorous, enchanting fiction. |
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The Natural
Bernard Malamud - Ferrar
Format: Paperback
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The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first -- and some would say still the best -- novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually... |
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Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot
Reed Farrel Coleman - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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"Coleman keeps the characters and the somber atmosphere but makes the book his own stylistically." --BooklistPolice Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and still... |
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