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The Middle Atlantic League, 1925-1952: A Baseball History
William E. AkinCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second qua...
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Houston Astros: Deep in the Heart
Bill BrownCurrent price €33.59Original price €41.99This book shares the stories of the plays and the players who have kept Houston returning to the diamond -- from the sandlot days, through the birt...
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Baseball''s Most Baffling MVP Ballots
Jeremy LehrmanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50From its colorful beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has become the most prestigious (and contenti...
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Baseball in 1939: The Watershed Season of the National Pastime
Lawrence S. KatzCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In 1939, baseball's past ran headlong into its future. As the game celebrated its 100th anniversary with the opening of the Hall of Fame in Coop...
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Integrating Cleveland Baseball: Media Activism, the Integration of the Indians and the Demise of the Negro League Buckeyes
Stephanie M. LiscioCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Focusing on the Negro American League Buckeyes, this detailed history describes the effects of major league integration on blackball in Clevelan...
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Trammell: Detroit''s Iconic Shortstop
Todd MastersCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50For nearly two decades Alan Trammell displayed an all-around game as a fielder, hitter, and base runner that was rare for shortstops of his era....
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Playing for a Winner: How Baseball Teams'' Success Raises Players'' Reputations
Brandon IsleibCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50He never felt like a Hall of Famer. You can't argue with championships. If he was so good, why were his teams so bad? On talk shows and in spo...
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Plie Ball!: Baseball Meets Dance on Stage and Screen
Jeffrey M. KatzCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as hoofing i...
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George Weiss: Architect of the Golden Age Yankees
Benita W. BoxermanCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99The New York Yankees were the strongest team in the majors from 1948 through 1960, capturing the American League Pennant 10 times and winning se...
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The Shutout in Major League Baseball: A History
Warren N. WilbertCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the roughly 200,000 regular season games tha...
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The Cy Young Catcher
Charlie O'BrienCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie OBrien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year b...
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Baseball GPA: A New Statistical Approach to Performance and Strategy
David P. GerardCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This book describes a new baseball statistic called GPA (Gross Productivity Average). The GPA measures how many runs a batter creates for his team ...
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Reasoning with Sabermetrics: Applying Statistical Science to Baseball''s Tough Questions
Gabriel B. CostaCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Sabermetrics, the specialized analysis of baseball through empirical evidence, provides an impartial perspective from which to explore the game....
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Arlie Latham: A Baseball Biography of the Freshest Man on Earth
L.M. SutterCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50One of early baseball's most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, h...
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Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press: Shaping the Image of the Game
R. Terry FurstCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation...
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2013-2014
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €50.14Original price €58.99Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has m...
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Baseball''s Comeback Players: Forty Major Leaguers Who Fell and Rose Again
Rick SwaineCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is pro...
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Frank Robinson: A Baseball Biography
John C. SkipperCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Frank Robinson was one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century. He was Rookie of the Year for the Cincinnati Reds in 1956, won the Tri...
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The First Yankees Dynasty: Babe Ruth, Miller Huggins and the Bronx Bombers of the 1920s
Gary A. SarnoffCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50When Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties, the stage was set for one of bas...
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Big Dan Brouthers: Baseball''s First Great Slugger
Roy KerrCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Described as the Greatest Batsman in the Country by sportswriters of his era, Dennis Big Dan Brouthers compiled a .342 batting average, tying wi...
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.721: A History of the 1954 Cleveland Indians
Gary WebsterCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This book is the day by day story of the 1954 Indians, whose .721 winning percentage is still the highest in American League history. It tells h...
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Frantic Frank Lane: Baseball''s Ultimate Wheeler-Dealer
Bob VanderbergCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The book follows the colorful career of Frank Lane, who as baseball's busiest general manager during the 1950s made the deals that turned the Ch...
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The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes
Brent KelleyCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) which features interviews with 52 f...
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A Tale of Two Leagues: How Baseball Changed as the Rules, Ball, Franchises, Stadiums and Players Changed, 1900-1998
Russell O. WrightCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50With the advent of interleague play and the realignment resulting from both the Milwaukee Brewers' jump from the American League to the National...
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When in Doubt, Fire the Skipper: Midseason Managerial Changes in Major League Baseball
Gary WebsterCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50The book chronicles almost 300 in-season changes of managers in the major leagues since 1900. It elaborates on the circumstances that led to the...
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Becoming Big League: Seattle, the Pilots, and Stadium Politics
Bill (William) MullinsCurrent price €89.24Original price €104.99Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome ...
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Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events
Ed EdmondsCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the to...
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Bobo Newsom: Baseball''s Traveling Man
Jim McConnellCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50For three decades, Louis Norman Bobo Newsom (1907-1962) was one of the most well-known pitchers in baseball. Frequently quoted by sportswriters,...
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New York Loves Them, Cooperstown Snubs Them: Great Mets and Yankees Who Belong in the Hall of Fame
Tom Van RiperCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Despite the big market, bright lights and World Series rings, many Hall of Fame level players from the Mets and Yankees have been passed over by...
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Isabel Lefty Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star
Kat D. WilliamsCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50A very good read. It is not only about a baseball player in the AAGPBL, but also about a young Latino woman who makes good in America.Lance Smith, ...
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Baseball and the House of David: The Legendary Barnstorming Teams, 1915-1956
P.J. DragsethCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50House of David barnstorming baseball (1915-1957) was played without pre-determined schedules, leagues, player statistics or standings. The David...
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €50.14Original price €58.99Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made...
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The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige''s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
Averell Ace SmithCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...
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Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues
Will GeogheganCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The college baseball season doesnt end when the school year is finished. Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue to ...
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball''s Afterlife
Brad BalukjianCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99A Los Angeles Times Best Seller A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack end...
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The Hall Ball: One Fan''s Journey to Unite Cooperstown Immortals with a Single Baseball
Ralph CarhartCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball launched an epic quest that s...
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