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The Stars Shone on Philadelphia: The 1934 Negro National League Champions
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 1934, Ed Bolden's Philadelphia Stars joined the new Negro National League II (NNL2), which had been founded one year earlier. After fending off ...
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The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017....
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100 Things Yankees Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Most Yankees fans have taken in a game or two at Yankee Stadium, have seen highlights of stars like Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio, and can tell ...
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Jim Kaat: Good As Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An unforgettable look at a lifetime of baseball packed with humor and passion for the game With a career that has now touched eight decades, Jim ...
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The Franchise: New York Yankees: A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball's most successful team. This thought...
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Jim Kaat: Good as Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An unforgettable look at a lifetime of baseball packed with humor and passion for the game. With a career that has now touched eight decades, Jim...
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The Franchise: New York Yankees: A Curated History of the Bronx Bombers
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In The Franchise: New York Yankees, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of the baseball's most successful team. This thought...
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The Real Hank Aaron: An Intimate Look at the Life and Legacy of the Home Run King
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king When journalist T...
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Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home is far too complex to be regarded as just a baseball book. Gregory Jordan is a master storyteller, expertly wea...
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Great Negro Baseball Stars and how they made the Major Leagues
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Great Negro Baseball Stars and how they made the Major Leagues is the story of how many of the early players of the Negro League made the transitio...
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Jackie Robinson
PaperbackOriginal price $10.00 - Original price $10.00Original price $10.00$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary...
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Deferred Glory
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Deferred Glory: Heroes of the Baseball Negro Leagues is about the lives, struggles and desire of negroes to one day become professional baseball pl...
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Willie Horton: 23
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A compelling autobiography from one of Detroit's favorite sons At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional bas...
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Coming Home: My Amazin' Life with the New York Mets
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 memoir at the intersection of baseball and American history Cleon Jones has never forgotten where he came from. As a child, growing ...
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Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most popul...
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Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /60 years of observation: an American journalist's memoir about Tokyo's modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.P...
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Baseball's First Indian: The Story of Penobscot Legend Louis Sockalexis
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Exploring the brilliant but too-brief major league career of the "Deerfoot of the Diamond," Baseball's First Indian follows Louis Sockalexis's rise...
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Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /J. Christopher Schutz reveals the real Jackie Robinson, as a more defiant, combative spirit than simply the "turn the other cheek" compliant "credi...
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Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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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Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-mal...
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Leo Najo: Baseball's First Latino Superstar
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /One of the first Latinos to play professional baseball in the United States, Leo Najo debuted in 1924 with the San Antonio Bears of the Class A Tex...
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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as...
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Maybe I'll Pitch Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first Black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he ...
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Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, ...
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