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Home Game: Big-League Stories from My Life in Baseball's First Family

Bret Boone - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

From the first third-generation baseball player in Major League Baseball history, a sometimes moving, always candid look at his family's 70 years in the world of professional baseball.A five-foot-ten firecracker who was spurned by scouts for his small size, supposed lack of power, and temper...
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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile

Nate Jackson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Nate Jackson’s Slow Getting Up is an unvarnished and uncensored memoir of everyday life in the most popular sports league in America—and the most damaging to its players—the National Football League.After playing college ball at a tiny Division III school, Jackson, a receiver,...
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This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

L Jon Wertheim - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers...
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Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty

Bengie Molina - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller "It's this year's baseball book most likely to be made into a terrific movie." - The Chicago Tribune "Affecting...A simply told, deeply moving story, quite unlike the usual baseball book." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A baseball...
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Ball Four: The Final Pitch

Jim Bouton - Turner
Format: Paperback

50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONNew York Public Library Book of the Century SelectionTime Magazine "100 Greatest Non-Fiction Books" SelectionNew Foreword from Jim Boutons Wife, Paula Bouton When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners,...
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