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Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character
Marty Appel · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Munson and Pinstripe Empire, Casey Stengel is the definitive biography of baseball's greatest character.There was nobody like Casey before him, and no one like him since. For more than fifty years, Casey Stengel lived baseball, first as a player... |
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The Lost City of Z
DAVID GRANN · VINTAGE
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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This New York Times bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, and Robert Pattinson and directed by James Gray.In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned.... |
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Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's
Jason Turbow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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How the Oakland A's of the 1970s-a revolutionary band of brawling winners led by Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Sal Bando, and Rollie Fingers-won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern ageThe Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative... |
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Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Tom Doyle · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the wildest, weirdest decade of the twentieth century. In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with... |
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The 1997 Masters: My Story
Tiger Woods · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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To mark the twentieth anniversary of his historic win at the 1997 Masters, Tiger Woods will for the first time reflect on the record-setting win both on and off the course. In 1997, Tiger Woods was already among the most-watched and closely examined athletes in history. But it wasn't until... |
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Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son
Paul Dickson · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Leo Durocher (1906-1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront... |
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Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
Andrew Forsthoefel · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a cross-country trek--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the highways of America.Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down,... |
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