Category - Sports & Recreation
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Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as nation...
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Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have expe...
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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence ...
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Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Highlights: Memorable Moments in Team History as Heard on the Reds Radio Network
HardcoverOriginal price $42.95Original price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /As part of every Reds game broadcast on the Reds Radio Network, Greg Rhodes, noted baseball historian and director of the Reds Hall of Fame and M...
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The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research 2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound When it op...
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The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The Duke of Havana is the inside story of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, fallen hero of the Cuban revolution. Banned by the Castro government for ...
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Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99Original price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The story of Willie Mays's rookie year with the Negro American League's Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro World Series, and the making of a...
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You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned about Teamwork from the Yankees and Life
HardcoverOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /The most valuable team player in sports shows you what "teamwork" really meansWhat does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society...
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Comiskey Park
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The Chicago White Sox opened Comiskey Park on July 1, 1910. Their owner, Charles Comiskey, wanted a new, modern, park made of steel and concrete ...
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The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was ...
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The Captain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thurman Munson
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The deeply personal story of a friendship between two teammates, and of a human bond which ultimately transcends the game itself. As back-to-bac...
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Baseball Memories & Dreams: Reflections on the National Pastime from the Baseball Hall of Fame
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Discover What Made Baseball America’s Pastime #1 New Release in Baseball Statistics Baseball Memories & Dreams celebrates the iconic moments,...
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Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The college baseball season doesn’t end when the school year is finished. Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue ...
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Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season...
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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between t...
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Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykst...
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Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of persona...
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In Cobb's Shadow: The Hall of Fame Careers of Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb cast a shadow over the game with his violent behavior on the field and off....
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The Baseball Entertainer
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Here's the perfect leisure-time and take-along book for baseball fans: a compendium of challenging quizzes, crossword puzzles, rules interpretati...
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Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykst...
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tom Stanton's The Final Season offers a powerful memoir of fathers, sons, and the end of a baseball era. Maybe your dad took you to ball games at...
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The Quality of Courage: Heroes in and out of Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /As a man who played baseball brilliantly despite near-constant pain from a succession of injuries, Mickey Mantle knew something about courage. In...
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Baseball in New Orleans
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In July of 1859, seventy-five young New Orleanians came together to form the seven teams that comprised the Louisiana Base Ball Club. They played...
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Slouching Toward Fargo: A Two-Year Saga of Sinners and St. Paul Saints at the Bottom of the Bush Leagues with Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie, and Me
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In his classic account of two years with the most audacious bush league ballclub ever to plumb the bottom of the pro sports barrel, Neal Karlen p...
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