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The Half-Game Pennant of 1908: Four Teams Chase Victory in the American League
Charles C. AlexanderCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The 1908 American League pennant race was described as a a fierce and fluctuating fight. With five games left in the season, each of the league'...
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Fate''s Take-Out Slide: A Baseball Scout Recalls Can''t-Miss Prospects Who Did
Dan TaylorCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Few would dispute the pitching greatness of Sandy Koufax--but was Paul Pettit better? Jim Baxes was once compared to the great Pie Traynor yet f...
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The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones in Major League History
Andy SaundersCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50The National Pastime's rich history and vast cache of statistics have provided fans and researchers a gold mine of narrative and data since the lat...
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Intangibles: Big-League Stories and Strategies for Winning the Mental Game-In Baseball and in Life
Geoff MillerCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Current price €25.49Original price €29.99Save 15% -
Kansas Baseball, 1858 - 1941
Mark E. EberleCurrent price €84.99Original price €99.99As baseball was becoming the national pastime, Kansas was settling into statehood, with hundreds of towns growing up with the game. The early histo...
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Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, 2d ed.
Gabriel B. CostaCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Interest in Sabermetrics has increased dramatically in recent years as the need to better compare baseball players has intensified among manager...
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Comiskey Parks Last World Series: A History of the 1959 Chicago White Sox
Charles N. BillingtonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Comiskey Parks Last World Series analyzes the significance of the 1959 White Sox from a multitude of perspectives. The book presents much more than...
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When Baseball Met Big Bill Haywood: The Battle for Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912-1916
Scott C. RoperCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations threatened the power of the countrys largest employ...
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Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play
S. Derby GisclairCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In the 1800s, New Orleans' local economy evolved from rural-agrarian into urban-industrial. With this transformation came newfound leisure time,...
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Baseball on the Brink: The Crisis of 1968
William J. RyczekCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the ga...
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Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons
Clifton Blue ParkerCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Athletics, to multiple champions...
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Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
Bill StaplesCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their mos...
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Dixie Walker: A Life in Baseball
Lyle SpatzCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Over the course of fifty years in the mid-twentieth century, Fred Dixie Walker lived several baseball lives. Dubbed the successor to Babe Ruth afte...
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The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History
Rick SwaineCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, exec...
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The Tecumsehs of the International Association: Canada''s First Major League Baseball Champions
Brian MartinCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of Lon...
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Finding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
Brian M. EndsleyCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Finding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963 is the story of the Dodgers' volatile fortunes during the transfor...
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Death at the Ballpark: More Than 2,000 Game-Related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball, 1862-2014
David WeeksCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the g...
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Chronology of Latin Americans in Baseball, 1871-2015
Lou HernandezCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This combination reference book and history covers the inroads and achievements made on professional ball fields by Latin American athletes, the...
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The Mexican League / La Liga Mexicana: Comprehensive Player Statistics, 1937-2001 bilingual edition / Estadisticas Comprensivas de los Jugadores, 1937-2001 edicion bilingue
Pedro Treto CisnerosCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99While scholars disagree on where and when baseball was first played in Mexico, it's clear that the game quickly became popular--and stayed that ...
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When Cobb Met Wagner: The Seven-Game World Series of 1909
Bill RanierCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The 1909 World Series featured Hall of Fame players Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner and was the first championship to extend to Game Seven, the final a...
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The Day All the Stars Came Out: Major League Baseball''s First All-star Game, 1933
Lew FreedmanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This is a history of Major League Baseball's first All-Star Game, originally conceived in 1933 as a one-time Game of the Century (including greats ...
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Doubleheaders: A Major League History
Charlie BevisCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginnings in the late 19th century up to...
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Early Black Baseball in Minnesota: The St. Paul Gophers, Minneapolis Keystones and Other Barnstorming Teams of the Deadball Era
Todd PetersonCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and their bitter crosstown rivals, the Mi...
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Eddie Neville of the Durham Bulls
Bill KirklandCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50For many fans in the 1940s and 1950s, it wasn't the exploits of major leagues that made baseball so popular. It was the local minor league heroe...
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The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914-1915
Robert Peyton WigginsCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime's top level. But no competitor to ...
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Black Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside of the Negro Leagues
William F. McNeilCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-season source of income to make ends meet....
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Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870: The Clubs and Players Who Spread the Sport Nationwide
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99By 1871, the popularity of baseball had spread so thoroughly across America that one writer observed, It is as much our national game as cricket...
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Ty Cobb: Two Biographies--Our Ty: Ty Cobb''s Life Story (1924) and Which Was Greatest: Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth? (1951)
Gary MitchemCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99H.G. Salsinger, the undisputed leading expert on Ty Cobb during the last century, analyzed and reported on Cobb's exploits on the diamond for 50 ye...
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The Chicago American Giants
Paul DebonoCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In 1886, a semipro team known as the Union Baseball Club was founded in Chicago. Under the leadership of Frank Leland, this team of black player...
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Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil
William B. GouldCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote to obtain the injunction that ended th...
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The Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League: A History, 1903-1957
Richard BeverageCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Long before the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants brought the major leagues to California in 1958, professional baseball thrived on the West ...
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The American League in Transition, 1965-1975: How Competition Thrived When the Yankees Didn''t
Paul HenslerCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League teams endeavored to stake their cla...
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Baseball Nicknames: A Dictionary of Origins and Meanings
James K. SkipperCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The nicknames for over 3,600 players, umpires, managers, owners, broadcasters, writers, executives, other officials, and fans are included in th...
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The South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954
Jim SargentCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Immortalized in the film A League of Their Own, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League debuted in 1943 as a way to fill ballpark se...
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Pennant Hopes Dashed by the Homer in the Gloamin'': The Story of How the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates Blew the National League Pennant
Ronald T. WaldoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finally poised to claim their first Nationa...
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Burleigh Grimes: Baseball''s Last Legal Spitballer
Joe NieseCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Burleigh Grimes--forever to be remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o'clock shadow. For nearly two decades, he brou...
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Frick*: Baseball''s Third Commissioner
John P. CarvalhoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the asterisk next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried ...
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Packaging Baseball: How Marketing Embellishes the Cultural Experience
Mathew J. BartkowiakCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Walk through any major or minor league park today and the sights, sounds, and smells of baseball overwhelm. Teams long ago figured out that this...
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New York Yankees Home Runs: A Comprehensive Factbook, 1903-2012
Mitchell S. SoivenskiCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99The New York Yankees are synonymous with home runs. With more than 14,000 round-trippers to its credit, New York has out-homered the next most p...
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The Days of Wee Willie, Old Cy and Baseball War: Scenes from the Dawn of the Deadball Era, 1900-1903
Chuck KimberlyCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This account of the four baseball seasons of 1900 through 1903 seeks to capture the flavour of the period by providing yearly overviews from the st...
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Ed McKean: Slugging Shortstop of the Cleveland Spiders
Rich BlevinsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The exemplar of the major league slugging shortstop before either Honus Wagner or Lou Boudreau, Ed McKean spent a dozen seasons as a high-profil...
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The Baseball Stadium Insider: A Dissection of All Thirty Ballparks, Legendary Players, and Memorable Moments
Matt LupicaCurrent price €39.94Original price €46.99Experience every baseball stadium in the country from the comfort of your favorite easy chair Major League Baseball occupies a special place in the...
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DiMaggio''s Yankees: A History of the 1936-1944 Dynasty
Lew FreedmanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. However, the post-Ruth era Yankees co...
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Early Professional Baseball in Hampton Roads: A History, 1884-1928
Peter C. StewartCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This work focuses on the Norfolk team (nicknamed the Mary Janes), which played in the Virginia, Eastern and Atlantic leagues. Much attention is ...
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You Stink!: Major League Baseball''s Terrible Teams and Pathetic Players
Eric J. WittenbergCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99There are countless volumes celebrating the best teams in professional baseball. Unfortunately, winning represents only one side of the game. For e...
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Asian American Basketball: A Century of Sport, Community and Culture
Joel S. FranksCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans a...
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Had ''Em All the Way: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
Thad MumauCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team - team being the operative word. There were no superstars - although Roberto Clemente would become ...
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