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Umpire in a Skirt: The Amanda Clement Story
Marilyn KratzCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Just over one hundred years ago, women did not play baseball, and they certainly did not umpire the games. But one young woman in South Dakota chan...
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The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates: Treachery and Triumph
Ronald T. WaldoCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season af...
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Intangibles: Big-League Stories and Strategies for Winning the Mental Game-In Baseball and in Life
Geoff MillerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
Michael ShapiroCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
Thomas AielloCurrent price €36.54Original price €42.99In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans It...
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Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Action & Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina Ended the Carolina Way
Rob J. AndersonCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Current price €21.57Original price €25.99Save 17% -
The Babe Chases 60: That Fabulous 1927 Season, Home Run by Home Run
John G. RobertsonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Homer-by-homer, this heavily researched work recounts the inimitable Babe Ruth's finest season. In that magical 1927 season, Ruth blasted homers...
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Mysteries from Baseball''s Past: Investigations of Nine Unsettled Questions
McFarland & Co IncCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This collection of nine essays examines some of baseball's most elusive mysteries. Topics include the discovery of the body of Ed Delahanty at t...
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Roger Connor: Home Run King of 19th Century Baseball
Roy KerrCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Roger Conner, the Babe Ruth of the 1880s and inventor of the pop-up slide, ranks number one for 19th century players in home runs and was an expert...
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The McFarland Baseball Quotations Dictionary, 3d ed.
David H. NathanCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.--Joe DiMaggio, Ha...
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The Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926: A Classic Season and St. Louis in Seven
Paul E. DoutrichCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a study in contrasts. The Yankees were ...
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Toy Cannon: The Autobiography of Baseball''s Jimmy Wynn
Bill McCurdyCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Despite the pressures of racism and a troubled personal life, Jimmy The Toy Cannon Wynn achieved remarkable success as a power hitter. In his fifte...
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The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball
Sarah L. TrembanisCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales...
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Major League Umpires'' Performance, 2007-2010: A Comprehensive Statistical Review
Andrew GoldblattCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Thirty years into baseball's sabermetric revolution, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact of a major league umpire's ball-and...
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Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George Boomer Scott
Ron AndersonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50When African American first baseman George Boomer Scott made his debut in the major leagues in 1966, he took the field for the Boston Red Sox--t...
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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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Classic Bucs: The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Pirates History
David FinoliCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50A countdown of the greatest games of a Steel City institutionWhen slow-footed former Pirate Sid Bream broke the heart of the Bucco nation, it was G...
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Addie Joss on Baseball: Collected Newspaper Columns and World Series Reports, 1907-1909
Addie JossCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Addie Joss (1880-1911) mowed down batters for the Cleveland Broncos/Naps from 1902 to 1910 before his career was cut short by his tragic death from...
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Baseball State by State: Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites
Chris JensenCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Offering a fresh approach to the familiar concept of all-time baseball teams, this exhaustive work ranks more than 2,500 players by state of bir...
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Baseball''s Longest Games: A Comprehensive Worldwide Record Book
Philip J. LowryCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Baseball is the only major team sport that doesn't feature a clock, and there's a familiar saying among fans that as long as outs remain, the ga...
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The On-Base Specialist: A New Model for Baseball Offense
Bill HagedornCurrent price €27.60Original price €34.50A new type of player is stepping into the batter''s box, and it''s about time. The last major boost for baseball''s offense came in 1973 with the d...
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Whitey Herzog Builds a Winner: The St. Louis Cardinals, 1979-1982
Doug FeldmannCurrent price €27.60Original price €34.50As Lou Brock was chasing 3000 career hits late in the 1979 season-his last after 18 years in the majors-the St. Louis Cardinals were looking for a ...
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The Science of the Fastball
William BlewettCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This book presents a scientific but easy to understand explanation of pitching power. Illustrated with anecdotes about baseball's greatest power...
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