Category - Biography & Autobiography
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Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. N...
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Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Baseball has been called America’s true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese A...
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Growing 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 ...
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Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Greg Larson was a starry-eyed fan when he hurtled headfirst into professional baseball. As the new clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds...
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David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car: The men and the automobile that launched General Motors
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /David Buick led a team that created gasoline engines for motor cars that were truly remarkable. They were powerful, durable and efficient engines...
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Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Young Henry Ford is a visual and textual presentation of the first forty years of Henry Ford--an American farm boy who became one of the greatest...
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Sea Stories: True Adventures of Great Lakes Freighter Captain, Richard Metz
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Triumphs, Struggles, and Secrets of a Captain’s Life Richard Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 20 years. He experienced wild weather, close ...
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Road to Power: How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Follow a pioneer's journey from factory floor to CEO Road to Power is the story of how Mary Barra drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that...
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The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller...
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Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender was, according to a contemporary, “the coolest pitcher in the gam...
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Pope Francis Takes the Bus, and Other Unexpected Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The whole family will enjoy these charming, real-life stories from the life of Pope Francis. Following a quirky A-to-Z format, the eighty lighthe...
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Athanasius of Alexandria: The Life of Antony, the Coptic Life and the Greek Life
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An Encomium on Saint Anthony by John of Schmun A letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Thmuis Instrumental in the conversion of many, ...
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The Life of the Buddha
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A blueprint for a life of mindfulness, dedicated to the easing of suffering both for oneself and for othersThe story of Shakyamuni Buddha’s epic ...
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Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of t...
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Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Bill Werber's claim to fame is unique: he is the last living person to have a direct connection to the 1927 Yankees, "Murderers' Row," a team hai...
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The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus: The True Life and Trials of Nicholas of Myra
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /With his rosy cheeks and matching red suit—and ever-present elf and reindeer companions—Santa Claus may be the most identifiable of fantastical c...
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Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /2021 Seymour Medal Finalist Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors DigestNew York Times 2020 Summer Reading List From the day ...
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Opening Day: 50-For-50
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Opening Day is the biggest regular season baseball game of the year. Michael Ortman never missed it, not once, for 50 years. Opening Day: 50-for-...
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The DiMaggios: Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In The DiMaggios, acclaimed sportswriter Tom Clavin reveals the untold Great American Story of three brothers, Joltin’ Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMagg...
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Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during...
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A Titanic Love Story: Ida and Isidor Straus
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. Isidor’s...
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God's Generals: Healing Evangelists
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In his fourth God’s Generals volume, Roberts Liardon chronicles God’s great healing evangelists of the twentieth century. Journey with such parag...
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Butler's Lives of the Saints
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /For more than two centuries, "Butler's Lives of the Saints" has been hailed as the authority on the Christian patron saints. Product DetailsISBN-...
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Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years; The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4: 1960-1963
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that ca...
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