Category - Sports & Recreation
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Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...
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Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan afte...
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Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball player...
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robins...
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Willie Horton: 23: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder, the Tigers' First Black Great
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional ba...
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True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Black ReadsJackie Robinson is an iconic figure in sports and civil rights and has been written about many times before, but this new ...
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The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /While Jackie Robinson's 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, t...
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Strength for the Fight: The Life and Faith of Jackie Robinson
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /How faith sustained Jackie Robinson--both as an athlete and as an activist. The integration of Major League Baseball in 1947 was a triumph. But it ...
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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports Illu...
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Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late ...
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I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie Robinson Before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's s...
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Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An account of the birth of black baseball and its dramatic passage from grass-roots venture to commercial enterprise. It assesses the impact of u...
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Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jackie Robinson is one of the most revered public figures of the twentieth century. He is remembered for both his athletic prowess and his strong p...
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1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars' Barrier-Breaking Year
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The true story of the first Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship. The pride of Chatham's East End, the Coloured A...
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The Twins in the Dome
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 Dome was our signature.” —Torii Hunter “The Dome was alive and it was loud.” —Corey Koskie “A lot of spooky stuff happened in there.” —Ken...
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Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball's Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Anyone who has love for the game of baseball will enjoy this remarkable book." Library Journal, Starred Review In Whispers of the Gods, bestsell...
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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last ...
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24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERThe legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences resp...
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Under the Halo: The Official History of Angels Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Generations of Angel fans can relive their favorite team moments in Under the Halo: The Official History of Angels Baseball. From the team’s inau...
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Minor league baseball is quintessentially American: small towns, small stadiums, $5 tickets, $2 hot dogs, the never-ending possibility of making ...
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