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When Baseball Was Still King: Major League Players Remember the 1950s
Gene FehlerCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties. In their conversations with author Gene Fehler, they tell,...
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Kid Nichols: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Pitcher
Richard BogovichCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This is the first full-length biography of Kid Nichols (1869-1953), who won 30 or more games a record seven times and was the youngest pitcher t...
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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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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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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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Cuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878-1961
Jorge S. FigueredoCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league baseball team from the United States had pl...
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Farewell to the Last Golden Era: The Yankees, the Pirates and the 1960 Baseball Season
Bill MoralesCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the orig...
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Of Monarchs and Black Barons: Essays on Baseball''s Negro Leagues
James A. RileyCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The first African American to play in baseball's recognized major leagues, William Edward White, appeared in 1879, followed by brothers Fleetwood a...
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Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players
Martin AbramowitzCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans have played Major League baseball. This work presents oral histories featuring 23 of these Jewish majo...
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Hal Trosky: A Baseball Biography
William H. JohnsonCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depression. His career stretched from the heyday ...
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Billy Southworth: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Manager and Ballplayer
John C. SkipperCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Billy Southworth was the most successful major league baseball manager of the 1940s including the three straight years in which his St. Louis Ca...
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Memories of Winter Ball: Interviews with Players in the Latin American Winter Leagues of the 1950s
Lou HernandezCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50This is an oral history of the Latin American baseball leagues of the mid-20th century. Interviews with dozens of former major league players, w...
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The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal''s Team, 1977-1984
Alain UsereauCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players. The team was ab...
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The 1957 San Francisco Seals: End of an Era in the Pacific Coast League
P.J. DragsethCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the pending invasion of major league baseball in 1958. While the meetings, wheeling and dealing and pol...
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Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011
Richard WorthCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99Professional baseball is full of arcane team names. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for instance, owe their nickname to the trolley tracks that honeyco...
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Buck Ewing: A Baseball Biography
Roy KerrCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era. A lifetime .300-hitter, he playe...
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Players and Teams of the National Association, 1871-1875
Paul BateselCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This reference work is in two parts. The first is a biographical dictionary of the 325 men who played in the National Association between 1871 a...
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John Tortes Chief Meyers: A Baseball Biography
William A. YoungCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50One of major league baseball's first Native American stars, John Tortes Chief Meyers (1880-1971) was the hard-hitting, award-winning catcher for J...
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Evaluating Baseball''s Managers: A History and Analysis of Performance in the Major Leagues, 1876-2008
Chris JaffeCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric approach to gauging their perform...
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Baseball: How To Play The Game: The Official Playing and Coaching Manual of Major League Baseball
Major League BaseballCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Major League Baseball has compiled the definitive instruction manual on learning to play the game. Fully illustrated with action photos of MLB star...
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Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball
Molly LawlessCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99On August 16, 1920, Yankees pitcher Carl Mays threw a fastball that struck Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman in the head. Chapman died the ne...
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