Hi, Anybody! Why I Love Baseball and What I'd Do to Fix It
By Matthews, Denny
Hi, everybody, and welcome .... Those signature sign-on words from Hall of Fame broadcaster Denny Matthews have signaled the start of summer for Kansas City Royals baseball fans for five decades. Since the first day of the club s inception in 1969, Matthews has been there on the c
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9780981716664
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Leaving Cancer for the Circus
By Clinkscale, Danny
"So I was sitting there in the car, and I did what you might do a few times a day - scratched a little itch on the left side of my face. But this time I felt something under the surface of the skin, a small lump. In other circumstances, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. I had led a remarkably healthy life, and seldom thought about health issues. But this time I did, and it was the discovery of the bump on the left side of my face that ignited the process which led to my odyssey." Kansas City sportscaster Danny Clinkscale tells the story of a year in his life that combines discovery, surgery, and treatment of cancer, covering two World Series, and embarking on a solo trip through the upper Midwest. It was, simply, a journey at the conclusion of a journey.
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9781537368719
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Paperback
Kansas City Royals
By Bowker, Paul
A profile of the Kansas City Royals, including history, high and low moments, famous players, anecdotes, and more.
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9781624034725
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Hardcover
The Kansas City Royals
By Stewart, Mark
The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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9781599531687
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Library Binding
The Kansas City Royals )
By Stewart, Mark
The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
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9781599534848
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Library Binding
From The Guys Who Were There
By Althaus, Bill
For 365 days, the Kansas City Royals have lived with the specter of the 2014 World Series hanging over their heads. Game Seven. At home. Bottom of the ninth. Madison Bumgarner on the mound and Royals star Alex Gordon 90-feet away on third base, representing the tying run. And as dramatic as that all sounds, it really does no justice to the remarkable, record setting journey the Royals traveled through the 2014 season, a thrilling victory in the Wild Card game, and the playoffs in order to reach that moment for the first time in three decades no less. Any fan knows how it ended. With Gordon s feet planted firmly on third base as Salvador Perez, the team s All-Star catcher, faced Bumgarner the seemingly invincible left-hander of the San Francisco Giants and popped out to end the game, the series, and the hopes of the 40,000 fans in attendance.
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9780996674201
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Print book
The Story of the Kansas City Royals
By Leboutillier, Nate
The history of the Kansas City Royals professional baseball team from its inaugural 1969 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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9781608180431
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Hardcover
The Story of the Kansas City Royals
By Gilbert, Sara
This completely revised, updated, and lengthened book examines the Royals from its first season to 2008 prospects. With special sections on the dream team by position and great moments in history, these are a read that can't be missed.
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9781583414903
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Library Binding
2015 World Series Champions
By Baseball, Major League
Celebrate the 2015 World Series champions with the official publication from Major League Baseball!2015 World Series Champions takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of games through the annual Fall Classic, but also a history of the World Series. With more than a hundred incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2015 MLB season. It's all here -- the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks and a season of unforgettable moments.
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9780771059766
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Print book
Tales from the Kansas City Royals Dugout
By Matthews, Denny
Amos Otis, Frank White, George Brett, Hal McRae, Dan Quisenberry, Bret Saberhagen, Paul Splittorff - one mention of any of those names can bring about visions of great baseball, determination, and winning. However, one vision outweighs all others: the boys in blue . . . the Kansas City Royals.The Kansas City Royals, an expansion club in the American League in 1969, struggled during their early existence. It didn't take long, however, before the Royals established themselves as one of the most successful franchises in baseball. That success culminated with the winning of the 1985 World Series. Since 1969, the Royals have developed great players that have had fun. Along the way, they also have developed a winning tradition. Although the Royals have received the "small-market" tag in recent years, the organization still boasts a proud heritage, and in 2014 they recorded their first playoff victory in almost thirty years en route to a seven-game World Series matchup against the San Francisco Giants.
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1613217218
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Print book
Taking the Crown
By Fulks, Matt
While the Kansas City Royals may have come out of the blue with their success in 2014, the 2015 edition of the team had high expectations and they met them to the fullest degree in winning the 2015 World Series - the organization's first in three decades. Buoyed by a dominant regular season in which they held first place in the American League Central beginning on June 8 and never looked back. Anchored by a major league record seven All-Stars and boosted by the mid-season acquisitions of Ben Zobrist and Johnny Cueto, this historic team would not be denied on their way to the title.Packed with unique analysis from veteran Kansas City writer Matt Fulks and vivid color photography, Taking the Crown guides fans through the Royals' amazing journey, from key off-season acquisitions to the Royals' thrilling come-from-behind ALDS win versus the Astros, from their out-slugging of the powerful Blue Jays in the ALCS, all the way through their incredible World Series triumph over the Mets.
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9781629370811
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Print book
The Pine Tar Game
By Bondy, Filip
An award-winning veteran sportswriter who personally covered the Pine Tar Game looks back and explores one of the wackiest events in baseball history. On July 24, 1983, during the finale of a heated four-game series between the dynastic New York Yankees and small-town Kansas City Royals, umpires nullified a go-ahead home run based on an obscure rule, when Yankees manager Billy Martin pointed out an illegal amount of pine tarthe sticky substance used for a better gripon Royals third baseman George Bretts bat. Brett wildly charged out of the dugout and chaos ensued. The call temporarily cost the Royals the game, but the decision was eventually overturned, resulting in a resumption of the game several weeks later that created its own hysteria. The Pine Tar Game chronicles this watershed moment, marking a pivot in the sport, when benign cheating tactics, like spitballs, Superball bats, and a couple extra inches of tar on an ash bat, gave way to era of soaring salaries, labor struggles, and rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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9781476777177
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Hardcover
Legacy of Blue
By Stallard, Mark
From George Brett and Bo Jackson to Carlos Beltran, Alex Gordon, and Billy Butler, Legacy of Blue starts with the beginning of the Kansas City Royals in 1969, highlights the team's glory years in the 1970s and 1980s, and covers the last 20 years up to the beginning of the franchis
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9780578138626
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Out of the Blue
By Fulks, Matt
The Royals' surprising run to the World Series for the first time since 1985 captured the nation's attention. In late July, Kansas City sat in third place in the AL Central, eight games out of first place with a losing record. But manager Ned Yost's team answered the call, posting
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9781629371184
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Crowning the Kansas City Royals
By Spivak, Jeffrey
Dane Iorg stepped back into the batter's box. "Look for the ball down," he told himself. Pitcher Todd Worrell of the St. Louis Cardinals wound up and released the pitch - low, at the thighs. Iorg whipped around his lumberjack-like arms. The bat met the ball. The bat brok
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9781582618265
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More Than a Season
By Moore, Dayton
Provides a blueprint for becoming a champion, both on and off the field When Dayton Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2006, the Royals hardly resembled a contender. The general manager inherited a major league club that had just one winning season in the previous decade. Moore, a Kansas native who grew up as a Royals fan, implemented a plan to return the franchise to its glory years. Though not without a few bumps in the road, that plan came to fruition in 2014 as the Royals swept through the American League playoffs to take the pennant and returned the World Series to Kansas City. In More Than a Season, Moore shares how his faith and leadership principles guided his rebooting of the Royals. The general manager describes how he built one of baseball's best farm systems and international scouting departments of out nothing.
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9781629371559
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eBook
100 Things Royals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
By Fulks, Matt
The history of the Royals in Kansas City may not be a long one - the team first played in Kansas City in 1969 - but it is a proud one. Embraced by a loyal fan base and boosted by small-market spunkiness, the team was a constant threat in the 1970s and 1980s, making multiple playof
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9781629372662
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One Man's Dream
By White, Frank
When the Kansas City Royals appeared in the 1985 World Series, manager Dick Howser had to make a difficult, and controversial, call. Because the series started in the National League city of St. Louis, there would be no designated hitter, which meant that Hal McRae would be relega
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9780985631420
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Hardcover
The Shame of Me, One Man's Journey to Depression and Back
By Lefebvre, Ryan
"I am alone, trembling on the floor in my closet. It is dark. There is no sound. I picture the cars driving away. They are leaving ... that image. I begin to sob, breaking the silence. They are leaving. I am alone." Kansas City Royals' broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre s
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9780984113026
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George Brett
By Brett, George
This full color volume contains quotes and unique photographs and memorabilia from the career of George Brett. The talented ball player reveals his thoughts on his life in baseball in a touching introduction, but the rest is left up to family, friends, and teammates to tell us how
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1886110794
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The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip
By Pahigian, Josh
An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Major League Baseball. If the Tappet Brothers of Car Talk were to write a baseball guide, this would be it.
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9781592281596
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World Series
By Wallace, Joseph E
Every baseball fan has a favorite World Series memory - and this book is just packed with them. In celebration of the 100th year of the Fall Classic, the tension and catharsis, agony and joy of the World Series have finally been captured in book form. World Series: An Opinionated
Hi, Anybody! Why I Love Baseball and What I'd Do to Fix It
By Matthews, Denny
Hi, everybody, and welcome .... Those signature sign-on words from Hall of Fame broadcaster Denny Matthews have signaled the start of summer for Kansas City Royals baseball fans for five decades. Since the first day of the club s inception in 1969, Matthews has been there on the c
Leaving Cancer for the Circus
By Clinkscale, Danny
"So I was sitting there in the car, and I did what you might do a few times a day - scratched a little itch on the left side of my face. But this time I felt something under the surface of the skin, a small lump. In other circumstances, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. I had led a remarkably healthy life, and seldom thought about health issues. But this time I did, and it was the discovery of the bump on the left side of my face that ignited the process which led to my odyssey." Kansas City sportscaster Danny Clinkscale tells the story of a year in his life that combines discovery, surgery, and treatment of cancer, covering two World Series, and embarking on a solo trip through the upper Midwest. It was, simply, a journey at the conclusion of a journey.
Kansas City Royals
By Bowker, Paul
A profile of the Kansas City Royals, including history, high and low moments, famous players, anecdotes, and more.
The Kansas City Royals
By Stewart, Mark
The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Kansas City Royals )
By Stewart, Mark
The Team Spirit series paints an engaging, detailed yet accessible picture of professional sports teams. By focusing on the history, great victories and memorable personalities, the books have an enduring quality that will not go out of date quickly. The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia. Each book presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and website. This series is Licensed by Major League Baseball and the content consultants include Hall of Fame staff. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From The Guys Who Were There
By Althaus, Bill
For 365 days, the Kansas City Royals have lived with the specter of the 2014 World Series hanging over their heads. Game Seven. At home. Bottom of the ninth. Madison Bumgarner on the mound and Royals star Alex Gordon 90-feet away on third base, representing the tying run. And as dramatic as that all sounds, it really does no justice to the remarkable, record setting journey the Royals traveled through the 2014 season, a thrilling victory in the Wild Card game, and the playoffs in order to reach that moment for the first time in three decades no less. Any fan knows how it ended. With Gordon s feet planted firmly on third base as Salvador Perez, the team s All-Star catcher, faced Bumgarner the seemingly invincible left-hander of the San Francisco Giants and popped out to end the game, the series, and the hopes of the 40,000 fans in attendance.
The Story of the Kansas City Royals
By Leboutillier, Nate
The history of the Kansas City Royals professional baseball team from its inaugural 1969 season to today, spotlighting the team's greatest players and most memorable moments. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Story of the Kansas City Royals
By Gilbert, Sara
This completely revised, updated, and lengthened book examines the Royals from its first season to 2008 prospects. With special sections on the dream team by position and great moments in history, these are a read that can't be missed.
2015 World Series Champions
By Baseball, Major League
Celebrate the 2015 World Series champions with the official publication from Major League Baseball!2015 World Series Champions takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of games through the annual Fall Classic, but also a history of the World Series. With more than a hundred incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2015 MLB season. It's all here -- the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks and a season of unforgettable moments.
Tales from the Kansas City Royals Dugout
By Matthews, Denny
Amos Otis, Frank White, George Brett, Hal McRae, Dan Quisenberry, Bret Saberhagen, Paul Splittorff - one mention of any of those names can bring about visions of great baseball, determination, and winning. However, one vision outweighs all others: the boys in blue . . . the Kansas City Royals.The Kansas City Royals, an expansion club in the American League in 1969, struggled during their early existence. It didn't take long, however, before the Royals established themselves as one of the most successful franchises in baseball. That success culminated with the winning of the 1985 World Series. Since 1969, the Royals have developed great players that have had fun. Along the way, they also have developed a winning tradition. Although the Royals have received the "small-market" tag in recent years, the organization still boasts a proud heritage, and in 2014 they recorded their first playoff victory in almost thirty years en route to a seven-game World Series matchup against the San Francisco Giants.
Taking the Crown
By Fulks, Matt
While the Kansas City Royals may have come out of the blue with their success in 2014, the 2015 edition of the team had high expectations and they met them to the fullest degree in winning the 2015 World Series - the organization's first in three decades. Buoyed by a dominant regular season in which they held first place in the American League Central beginning on June 8 and never looked back. Anchored by a major league record seven All-Stars and boosted by the mid-season acquisitions of Ben Zobrist and Johnny Cueto, this historic team would not be denied on their way to the title.Packed with unique analysis from veteran Kansas City writer Matt Fulks and vivid color photography, Taking the Crown guides fans through the Royals' amazing journey, from key off-season acquisitions to the Royals' thrilling come-from-behind ALDS win versus the Astros, from their out-slugging of the powerful Blue Jays in the ALCS, all the way through their incredible World Series triumph over the Mets.
The Pine Tar Game
By Bondy, Filip
An award-winning veteran sportswriter who personally covered the Pine Tar Game looks back and explores one of the wackiest events in baseball history. On July 24, 1983, during the finale of a heated four-game series between the dynastic New York Yankees and small-town Kansas City Royals, umpires nullified a go-ahead home run based on an obscure rule, when Yankees manager Billy Martin pointed out an illegal amount of pine tarthe sticky substance used for a better gripon Royals third baseman George Bretts bat. Brett wildly charged out of the dugout and chaos ensued. The call temporarily cost the Royals the game, but the decision was eventually overturned, resulting in a resumption of the game several weeks later that created its own hysteria. The Pine Tar Game chronicles this watershed moment, marking a pivot in the sport, when benign cheating tactics, like spitballs, Superball bats, and a couple extra inches of tar on an ash bat, gave way to era of soaring salaries, labor struggles, and rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Legacy of Blue
By Stallard, Mark
From George Brett and Bo Jackson to Carlos Beltran, Alex Gordon, and Billy Butler, Legacy of Blue starts with the beginning of the Kansas City Royals in 1969, highlights the team's glory years in the 1970s and 1980s, and covers the last 20 years up to the beginning of the franchis
Out of the Blue
By Fulks, Matt
The Royals' surprising run to the World Series for the first time since 1985 captured the nation's attention. In late July, Kansas City sat in third place in the AL Central, eight games out of first place with a losing record. But manager Ned Yost's team answered the call, posting
Crowning the Kansas City Royals
By Spivak, Jeffrey
Dane Iorg stepped back into the batter's box. "Look for the ball down," he told himself. Pitcher Todd Worrell of the St. Louis Cardinals wound up and released the pitch - low, at the thighs. Iorg whipped around his lumberjack-like arms. The bat met the ball. The bat brok
More Than a Season
By Moore, Dayton
Provides a blueprint for becoming a champion, both on and off the field When Dayton Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2006, the Royals hardly resembled a contender. The general manager inherited a major league club that had just one winning season in the previous decade. Moore, a Kansas native who grew up as a Royals fan, implemented a plan to return the franchise to its glory years. Though not without a few bumps in the road, that plan came to fruition in 2014 as the Royals swept through the American League playoffs to take the pennant and returned the World Series to Kansas City. In More Than a Season, Moore shares how his faith and leadership principles guided his rebooting of the Royals. The general manager describes how he built one of baseball's best farm systems and international scouting departments of out nothing.
100 Things Royals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
By Fulks, Matt
The history of the Royals in Kansas City may not be a long one - the team first played in Kansas City in 1969 - but it is a proud one. Embraced by a loyal fan base and boosted by small-market spunkiness, the team was a constant threat in the 1970s and 1980s, making multiple playof
One Man's Dream
By White, Frank
When the Kansas City Royals appeared in the 1985 World Series, manager Dick Howser had to make a difficult, and controversial, call. Because the series started in the National League city of St. Louis, there would be no designated hitter, which meant that Hal McRae would be relega
The Shame of Me, One Man's Journey to Depression and Back
By Lefebvre, Ryan
"I am alone, trembling on the floor in my closet. It is dark. There is no sound. I picture the cars driving away. They are leaving ... that image. I begin to sob, breaking the silence. They are leaving. I am alone." Kansas City Royals' broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre s
George Brett
By Brett, George
This full color volume contains quotes and unique photographs and memorabilia from the career of George Brett. The talented ball player reveals his thoughts on his life in baseball in a touching introduction, but the rest is left up to family, friends, and teammates to tell us how
The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip
By Pahigian, Josh
An enthusiastic, irreverent, but exhaustive guidebook to all the stadiums of Major League Baseball. If the Tappet Brothers of Car Talk were to write a baseball guide, this would be it.
World Series
By Wallace, Joseph E
Every baseball fan has a favorite World Series memory - and this book is just packed with them. In celebration of the 100th year of the Fall Classic, the tension and catharsis, agony and joy of the World Series have finally been captured in book form. World Series: An Opinionated