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  • The Negro Leagues' 1931 Homestead Grays

    The Color of Greatness

    Edited by Thomas Kern, Bill Nowlin ...
    The 1931 edition of the Homestead Grays might be the greatest collection of talent on one team in baseball history. They not only retained all-time greats like Oscar Charleston, Josh Gibson, and Smokey Joe Williams from the previous year, but brought in future Hall of Famers Jud Wilson to play third base and Willie Foster to augment the pitching staff. They even briefly added Satchel Paige late in ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Incredible Boston Red Sox Trivia Book

    300 Questions for the Super-Fan

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series Incredible Sports Trivia Books
    Become a Red Sox expert with these tough questions!The Incredible Boston Red Sox Trivia Book tests and expands your knowledge on your favorite baseball team—covering players’ careers from their rookie season, the All-Star Game, to Cooperstown and beyond! In this collection of 300 questions, seasoned baseball writer and Red Sox historian Bill Nowlin tests your level of expertise on all things BoSox ... Read more

    $14.49 CAD

  • "The Kid" Blasts a Winner: Ted Williams's 110 Game-Deciding Home Runs

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    As if Ted Williams's numbers needed any help, recent research reveals that 110 of his 521 career home runs—more than 20%—were game-winners. "The Kid" Blasts a Winner, by Red Sox guru Bill Nowlin, tells the story of every one of them. Williams's first game-winner came just 10 games into his career, a mammoth blast, likely the longest ball ever hit at Briggs Stadium. His last came more than 21 years ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Sox in 5s and 10s

    Boston's Agony and Ecstasy

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series
    The Boston Red Sox have blown hot and cold over the decades. These lists of Top 5s and 10s cover both the highs and lows of a team that has endured a long history of both joy and sorrow. They won the first World Series ever played and then five more pennants in the next fifteen years. Famously, from 1918 until the magical year of 2004, the Sox endured eighty-six seasons without a championship, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bitten by the Red Sox Baseball Bug

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    Longtime diehard Red Sox fans did just that—DIE HARD—almost too many times to count over the decades until they finally won the World Series in 2004 after an incredible postseason run.Red Sox scholar Bill Nowlin, a fan for nearly 50 years when Boston finally triumphed, endured many of those heartbreaks, and once the shock of the win wore off, Bill found that the essence of his relationship with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tom Yawkey

    Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    2019 SABR Baseball Research AwardFew people have influenced a team as much as did Tom Yawkey (1903–76) as owner of the Boston Red Sox. After purchasing the Red Sox for $1.2 million in 1932, Yawkey poured millions into building a better team and making the franchise relevant again.Although the Red Sox never won a World Series under Yawkey’s ownership, there were still many highlights. Lefty Grove ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • ALEXANDER BERKMAN, ANARCHIST

    Life, Work, Ideas

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881. He emigrated to America and, inspired by the Haymarket martyrs, became active in Jewish anarchist circles. When Henry Clay Frick of Carnegie Steel sent in armed Pinkertons who killed strikers at Homestead Steel, Berkman traveled to Pittsburg and shot Frick in an ... Read more

    $5.53 CAD

  • Metropolitan Stadium

    Memorable Games at Minnesota's Diamond on the Prairie

    by Bill Nowlin, Carl Riechers ...
    Series series Home Diamonds
    Metropolitan Stadium was right on time. It wasn't built too early, using a cantilever construction that eliminated the need for posts between decks. It wasn't built too late, staying ahead of the much-maligned "cookie cutter" multi-purpose stadiums of the 1960s.The Met followed the trend of other post-war stadiums, sprouting in open areas that were well-served by highways and surrounded by plenty ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Red Sox by the Numbers

    A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number

    by Bill Nowlin, Matthew Silverman ...
    What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They have all worn #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players.In this newly updated edition, Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story of every Red Sox player since ’31-from Bill Sweeney (the first Red Sox player to don #1) to J.T. Snow (#84, the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Red Sox by the Numbers

    A Complete Team History of the Boston Red Sox by Uniform Number

    by Bill Nowlin, Matthew Silverman ...
    What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players. Red Sox by the Numbers tells the story of every Red Sox player since '31-from Bill Sweeney (the first Red Sox player to don #1) to J.T. Snow (#84, the highest-numbered non-coach in Sox ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Boston Red Sox Firsts

    The Players, Moments, and Records That Were First in Team History

    by Bill Nowlin, William Nowlin ...
    Series series Sports Team Firsts
    In the 111-year-history of the Boston Red Sox, fans have been treated to countless firsts— the first manager of the franchise (Jimmy Collins), the first American League MVP to play for the Sox (Tris Speaker), the first 20-game winner (Bill Dineen), the first to hit 500 home runs (Ted Williams), and the first Red Sox pitcher to win the Cy Young Award (Roger Clemens). The list goes on.In Boston Red ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • So You Think You're a Boston Red Sox Fan?

    Stars, Stats, Records, and Memories for True Diehards

    by Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series So You Think You're a Team Fan
    So You Think You’re a Boston Red Sox Fan? tests and expands your knowledge of Red Sox baseball. Rather than merely posing questions and providing answers, you’ll get details behind each-stories that bring to life players and coaches, games and seasons.This book is divided into multiple parts, with progressively more difficult questions in each new section. Along the way, you’ll learn more about ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD