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Honus Wagner and His Pittsburgh Pirates: Scenes from a Golden Era
Ronald T. WaldoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Honus Wagner's spectacular baseball career spanned 21 seasons from 1897 through 1917. Widely considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history,...
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Tim Keefe: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Pitcher and Player-Rights Advocate
Charlie BevisCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50One of the greatest pitchers of the 19th century, Tim Keefe (1857-1933) was an ardent believer in the artisan work ethic that was becoming outmo...
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The Pirates Unraveled: Pittsburgh''s 1926 Season
Angelo J. LouisaCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99With virtually the same personnel that had won both the National League pennant and the World Series the previous season, the 1926 Pittsburgh Pi...
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Gentlemen at the Bat: A Fictional Oral History of the New York Knickerbockers and the Early Days of Base Ball
Howard BurmanCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Beginning in 1845, the New York Knickerbockers were the first fully organized base ball club to play the game with written rules similar to thos...
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The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Merrie A. FidlerCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from...
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Johnny Temple: All-Star Second Baseman
William A. CookCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over .300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing, tough-talking hustler, he had a...
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Baseball''s Great Hispanic Pitchers: Seventeen Aces from the Major, Negro and Latin American Leagues
Lou HernandezCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Baseball has had many outstanding Latin American pitchers since the early 20th century. This book profiles the greatest Hispanic hurlers to toe ...
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They Wore Red Socks and Pinstripes: Players Who Went to the Enemy
Todd StanleyCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99More than 300 ballplayers have spent time with both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, opposing teams in one of the most intense rival...
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Red Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011
William F. McNeilCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball diamond have filled its rosters....
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Black Sox in the Courtroom: The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation
William F. LambCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book ...
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The All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives
Kat D. WilliamsCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The hit 1992 film A League of Their Own made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League famous. But the players' stories remain largely...
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Napoleon Lajoie: King of Ballplayers
David L. FleitzCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his career, which lasted ...
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The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916
Joel S. FranksCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continent...
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The Hunt for a Reds October: Cincinnati in 1990
Charles F. FaberCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In 1869 the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first openly all-professional baseball club in the world. The history, geography, demography, and e...
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Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture
David KrellCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandso...
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Jews and Baseball: Volume 1, Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948
Benita W. BoxermanCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with ...
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The Prehistories of Baseball
Seelochan BeharryCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (...
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2011-2012
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €50.14Original price €58.99The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import e...
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Bibb Falk: The Man Who Replaced Shoeless Joe
William A. CookCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet. He brimmed with confidence and played...
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The Tigers and Yankees in ''61: A Pennant Race for the Ages, the Babe''s Record Broken and Stormin'' Norman''s Greatest Season
Jim SargentCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The Detroit Tigers gave a memorable performance in the pennant race against the New York Yankees in 1961, the American League's first expansion ...
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Hazen Kiki Cuyler: A Baseball Biography
Ronald T. WaldoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50One of the greatest outfielders of his generation, Hazen Kiki Cuyler (1898-1950) was working as a roof assembler in an auto plant in Michigan wh...
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Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
William A. CookCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny nam...
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The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires
David NemecCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99With this volume, David Nemec completes his remarkable trilogy of 19th-century baseball biographies, covering every major league player, manager...
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What Has Happened To Baseball? A Concentrated Look at Analytics, Poker, and Intuition
Daniel ArfinCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball''s Unwritten Code
William C. KashatusCurrent price €22.83Original price €27.50Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra...
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Paul Lebowitz''s 2011 Baseball Guide: A Complete Guide to the 2011 Baseball Season
Paul LebowitzCurrent price €17.59Original price €21.99Current price €17.59Original price €21.99Save 20% -
Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original
Mitchell NathansonCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.992021 Seymour Medal Finalist Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors DigestNew York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day he ...
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More Than a Season: Building a Championship Culture
Dayton MooreCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Provides a blueprint for becoming a champion, both on and off the field When Dayton Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2006, the Royals hardly resembl...
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Cy Young: The Baseball Life and Career
Lew FreedmanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50An early celebrity pitcher, Denton Cy Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set M...
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Beer, Brats and Grasshoppers: The Sports Tourists Rank Baseball''s Cathedrals
Blair MorseCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Current price €22.53Original price €26.50Save 15% -
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
William W. KellyCurrent price €65.47Original price €81.84Baseball has been Japan''s most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically...
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
Felipe AlouCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play an...
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Infield Fly Rule Is in Effect: The History and Strategy of Baseball''s Most (In)Famous Rule
Howard M. WassermanCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The Infield Fly Rule is the most misunderstood rule in baseball and perhaps in all of sports. That also makes it the most infamous. Drawing on i...
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Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete
Thomas BarthelCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50From his first year in the majors, George Herman Babe Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attemp...
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Lefty O''Doul: Baseball''s Forgotten Ambassador
Dennis SnellingCurrent price €39.09Original price €45.99From San Francisco to the Ginza in Tokyo, Lefty ODoul relates the untold story of one of baseballs greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and ...
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