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  • Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School and Life as a Division I College Athlete (Second Edition)

    by Ken Jacobi ...
    When I signed my National Letter of Intent to attend Binghamton University I officially become a Division I scholarship athlete. As my pen slid across the paper, I thought that the most difficult part of the journey was over. Little did I know that arriving on campus as a vulnerable freshman, playing baseball in the snow belt, and having the coach who recruited me leave before my first semester ... Read more

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  • Ted Williams

    The Biography of an American Hero

    by Leigh Montville ...
    The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death?Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into a Boston Red Sox uniform in 1939, Williams’s boisterous personality and penchant for towering home runs earned ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Best Team Money Can Buy

    The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse

    by Molly Knight ...
    **With a new Afterword covering the 2015 season.The bestselling, inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball. “It’s as if Molly Knight ushers you behind the closed clubhouse doors.” (Buster Olney, ESPN)**In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Boston Red Sox: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports

    by Tucker Elliot ...
    The team that won the first World Series in baseball's modern era is now officially a part of the Sports by the Numbers franchise!THE TEAM: The Boston Red Sox dominated the early 20th century, winning five World Series titles before the Evil Empire tasted postseason success for the first time. With the 86-year nightmare that followed now firmly in the past, Boston is dominant once again, having ... Read more

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  • The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?

    by Sean Deveney ...
    IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . .the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDALDid the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get away with it?Who were the players involved—and why did they do it?Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than previously believed?Were the players and teams “cursed” by their actions?Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook: All-Star Break Supplement

    by Jay Blue ...
    This update to the 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook provides mid-season reports on players and teams in the Toronto Blue Jays' minor league system. The All-Star Break Update includes 15 new player profiles on players who have joined the Blue Jays' organization since the start of the 2014 baseball season as well as a complete break down of the 2014 draft including non-drafted free ... Read more

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  • Incredible Baseball Stats

    The Coolest, Strangest Stats and Facts in Baseball History

    by Kevin Reavy, Ryan Spaeder ...
    As America's pastime since the mid-1800s, baseball offers the sights, sounds, and even smells that are deeply entrenched in our culture. But for some, the experience can be less sensory. Some, such as Ryan Spaeder and Kevin Reavy, live for baseball statistics. Stats give the game historical context and measurables for past, present, and predictive analysis.Incredible Baseball Stats helps tell ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Baseball Means to Me

    A Celebration of Our National Pastime

    by Curt Smith, The National Baseball Hall of Fame ...
    Funny, moving, and each one a diamond in the rough of the American consciousness, the essays in this book are the ultimate baseball conversation that pays homage to the perfect sport, in this perfect companion for all our personal baseball journeys.For some people baseball means a memory-of a certain dusty ball field on a certain summer day, or the first time they walked into a major league park ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Baseball America 2017 Prospect Handbook Digital Edition

    Rankings and Reports of the Best Young Talent in Baseball

    Edited by John Manuel ...
    The one player guide every true baseball fan will want -- the leading resource for the next generation of rising stars!The Baseball America 2017 Prospect Handbook is the ultimate guide to the next generation of baseball stars. The Prospect Handbook features in-depth analysis and statistics for 900 players, with detailed scouting reports, recaps of each team's amateur draft efforts, and a ranking ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates Dugout

    Remembering ?The Fam-A-Lee?

    by John McCollister ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    The year is 1979. America is in a funk. And Pittsburgh was no exception.Double-digit inflation, a near disaster at nearby Three Mile Island, and the decline of downtown businesses all placed over the city of Pittsburgh a cloud that grew darker than the smoke that rose from the Homestead Works 25 years earlier.Into this atmosphere of doom and gloom came a cause to celebrate. The 1979 Pirates, under ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom

    Series series Little Books
    Novelist W. P. Kinsella wrote that baseball is a game where little gems of wisdom or whimsy can be created in the dugout, the bullpen, or the press box during long, hot afternoons and evenings of baseball.” The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom unearths a treasury of quotes reflecting more than a century’s worth of history from our national pastime. Featuring contributions from Hank Aaron to Walt ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Baseball Miscellany

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball

    by Matthew Silverman ...
    Series series Books of Miscellany
    Why does a curveball curve? What is a can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed! For example, the reason a curveball curves is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster ... Read more

    $9.99 USD