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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Charles Leerhsen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Finally - a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb.Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928,... |
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Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius
Bill Pennington - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures Billy Martin is a story of contrasts. He was the clutch second baseman for the dominant New York Yankees of the 1950s. He then spent sixteen seasons managing in the big leagues, and is considered... |
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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
James S. Hirsch - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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On February 18th, 2010 Mr. Mays signed 100 copies for his Charity, The Say Hey Foundation. The signing took place at a local sporting goods store. You will receive the retail store receipt, copies of 2 newspaper articles announcing the signing and The Letter of Evaluation. |
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Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution
Brian Kenny - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A delight for baseball lovers" (Kirkus Reviews) and "one of the most significant baseball books of the year" (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball's present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information,... |
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Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 5
Alan J. Auerbach - North Holland
Format: Hardcover
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In the Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5, top scholars provide context and order to new research about mechanisms that underlie both public finance theories and applications. These fundamental subjects follow the recent, steady movement away from rational decision-making and toward... |
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Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series
Louis P. Masur - National Academies Press
Format: Paperback
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Twelve years into the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the remaining Everglades ecosystem; instead, most project construction so far has occurred along its periphery. To reverse ongoing ecosystem declines, it will be necessary... |
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Kostya Kennedy - Sports Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2011 CASEY Award from Spitball MagazineSeventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to leftfield. It was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee... |
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Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved
Rob Fleder - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Winners of twenty-seven World Series titles, the New York Yankees are the quintessential sports dynasty. Love them or hate them, they cannot be ignored by anyone who professes to be a fan of the great game of baseball.With Damn Yankees, Rob Fleder, former Executive Editor for Sports Illustrated... |
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Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game
Bob Gibson - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Pitch by Pitch gets inside the head of Bob Gibson on October 2, 1968, when he took the mound for game one of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers and struck out a record seventeen batters. With the tension rising in the stadium, an uproarious crowd behind him, and the record... |
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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Howard Bryant - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A history of steroid and performance-enhancing drug use in major league baseball discusses such issues as the 1994 strike and the current threat of punitive legislation, in an investigative account that features anecdotes by and interviews with such figures as Jason Giambi, Bud Selig, and Donald... |
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Legends of the Tennessee Vols
Marvin West - Sports Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Tennessee football is hundreds of victories, the giant stadium, passionate fans, sensational statistics, unforgettable plays, unbelievable stories-Jack Reynolds hacksawing his Jeep in half, Richmond Flowers racing a quarter-horse, Peyton Manning dropping his drawers. Tennessee football... |
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Sports Illustrated: Brett Favre: The Tribute
Sports Illustrated - Sports Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
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No contemporary athlete is as admired among peers and beloved among fans as Brett Favre. Over 16 seasons, the Green Bay Packers quarterback has made his inimitable mark on the NFL, thrilling fans with his exemplary talent and passionate playing style, and inspiring them with his courage... |
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October 1964
David Halberstam - Villard
Format: Hardcover
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR"October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off against the upstart St. Louis... |
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion
Roger Angell - Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years . . . and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful... |
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Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift
Harvey Araton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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"How would you like to hang out with Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry during spring training? Funny and sweet, Driving Mr. Yogi transports you there." - Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four It happens every spring. Yankees pitching great Ron Guidry arrives at the Tampa airport... |
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Baseball as America : Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
National Baseball Hall Of Fame - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Baseball As America examines how the American landscape, our language, literature, entertainment, food, and summertime living all bear the mark of a 19th-century game that has become intertwined with our nation's values and aspirations. Baseball As America is the official... |
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The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays
Ron Jaworski - ESPN
Format: Hardcover
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Professional football in the last half century has been a sport marked by relentless innovation. For fans determined to keep up with the changes that have transformed the game, close examination of the coaching footage is a must. In The Games That Changed the Game, Ron Jaworski - pro footballs... |
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Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game
Mark Edmundson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic... |
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Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty
Jeff Pearlman - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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They were Americas Team - the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the charismatic Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, and Hall of Famers Troy Aikman and Michael... |
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred
George Will - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs' century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look... |
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Emotional Incest in Group Psychotherapy
Robert S Pepper
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A celebration of football's greatest heroes from the NFL Hall of Fame Commemorating the 40th anniversary of football's Hall of Fame, Pro Football's Heroes of the Hall provides an exhaustive who's-who of the NFL's best and boldest. From Lombardi to Landry, Starr to Staubach, Baugh to Bradshaw,... |
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Rites of Autumn: The Story of College Football
L Olansky - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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The well-respected sportswriter serves up a compelling, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated portrait of college football, retracing its glorious history on campuses across the country. 100,000 first printing. |
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The Best Game Ever: Pirates 10, Yankees 9: October 13, 1960
Jim Reisler - Carroll & Graf
Format: Hardcover
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October 13, 1960: The hardscrabble Pirates were a hungry squad, led by Roberto Clemente, Bill Mazeroski, and a colorful bunch of overachievers who hit singles and rode solid fielding and pitching to the franchise's first World Series appearance in 35 years. The Yankees, lordly and corporate,... |
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My Prison Without Bars
Pete Rose - Rodale Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned... |
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Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove
Noah Liberman - Triumph Books
Format: Hardcover
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In addition to chronicling the amazing history of the glove, Glove Affairs has detailed chapters featuring experts' tips on buying, breaking in, and fixing a glove; Major Leaguers' glove secrets and superstitions; insights into glove endorsements and glove collecting; and page after... |
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father,... |
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