Category - Sports & Recreation
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No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers. He brings a fan’s love, a fiction wr...
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Stumbling around the Bases: The American League's Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the late 1950s to the 1980s, baseball’s American League mismanaged integration and expansion, allowing the National League to forge ahead in...
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Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina,...
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and ...
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The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige's Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh G...
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Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal Foreword INDIES Finalist in History In Baseball Rebels Peter Dreier and Robert Elias examine the key social ...
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Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Following an epic American League Championship Series win over the California Angels and just one out from winning their first World Series in si...
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Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman I...
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Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /2023 SABR Baseball Research Award A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal Finalist for the 2022 CASEY ...
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The Pride of Minnesota: The Twins in the Turbulent 1960s
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The 1960s were a heady time to come of age. The British Invasion transformed pop music and culture. The fledgling space program offered a thrilli...
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Brooklyn Dodgers
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Brooklyn Dodgers: The story of a baseball franchise that became family with its city. If there was ever a place in America where a city and i...
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Baseball's Funnymen: Twenty-Four Jokers, Screwballs, Pranksters and Storytellers
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tell...
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1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare Nati...
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Detroit Tigers Gone Wild: Mischief, Crimes and Hard Time
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 Detroit Tigers came out of the womb scratching and snarling. Early owner James D. Burns orchestrated the only known arrest of a journalist wh...
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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95Original price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Connie Mack (1862–1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game’s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-tw...
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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Connie Mack (1862-1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game's first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two y...
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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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Harley-Davidson Racing, 1934-1986
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /For the past fifty years and more, Harley-Davidson has been ruling some racing roosts. Its competition iron has always been significant, often su...
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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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