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  • The Sizzler

    George Sisler, Baseball's Forgotten Great

    by Rick Huhn ...
    Series Book 1 - Sports and American Culture
    “Gorgeous George” Sisler, a left-handed first baseman, began his major-league baseball career in 1915 with the St. Louis Browns. During his sixteen years in the majors, he played with such baseball luminaries as Ty Cobb (who once called Sisler “the nearest thing to a perfect ballplayer”), Babe Ruth, and Rogers Hornsby. He was considered by these stars of the sport to be their equal, and Branch ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Chalmers Race

    Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession

    by Rick Huhn ...
    In 1910 auto magnate Hugh Chalmers offered an automobile to the baseball player with the highest batting average that season. What followed was a batting race unlike any before or since, between the greatest but most despised hitter, Detroit’s Ty Cobb, and the American League’s first superstar, Cleveland’s popular Napoleon Lajoie. The Chalmers Race captures the excitement of this strange contest ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Pitching to the Pennant

    The 1954 Cleveland Indians

    Edited by Joseph Wancho, Rick Huhn, Leonard Levin, Bill Nowlin, Steve Johnson ...
    Series series Memorable Teams in Baseball History
    The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. Their record for most wins (111) fell only when the baseball schedule expanded, and their winning percentage, an astounding .721, is still unsurpassed in the American League. Though the season ended with a heartbreaking loss to the New York Giants in the World Series, the 1954 team remains a favorite among ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century

    SABR Digital Library, #11

    by Society for American Baseball Research ...
    Series Book 11 - SABR Digital Library
    A project of SABR's Nineteenth Century Committee, INVENTING BASEBALL brings to life the greatest games to be played in the game's early years. From the "prisoner of war" game that took place among captive Union soldiers during the Civil War, to the first intercollegiate game (Amherst versus Williams), to the first professional no-hitter, the games in this volume span 1833-1900 and detail the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball's No-Hit Wonders

    More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats

    by Dirk Lammers ...
    Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders honors such legendary pitchers as Cy Young, Bob Feller, Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax, while introducing readers to other eccentrics and one-shot wonders who have thrown no-hitters. The book, the first of its kind in more than fifteen years, fleshes out the colorful characters, compelling narratives and statistical oddities from baseball’s 289 no-hit efforts-as well as the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season

    by David Finoli ...
    Series series Images of Baseball
    In the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates, no team has been more memorable than that of 1960. In the decade before, the team produced only two winning records: a second-place finish in 1958 and in 1959. In 1960, they put it all together to win the pennant. Their reward was a trip to the World Series against the favored New York Yankees. In the Yankees" three winning games, they outscored Pittsburgh ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rivals

    The New York Yankees vs. the Boston Red Sox---An Inside History

    by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Harvey Araton, Tyler Kepner, Dave Anderson, George Vecsey, Bob Ryan, Jackie McMullan ...
    The Rivals marks the first joint project from the top sports writers of New York Times and the Boston Globe--and what better subject than the two baseball teams whose crossed fortunes obsess and define each city.**A Struggle for the Ages. . .BOSTON GLOBE JANUARY 6, 1920RED SOX SELL RUTH FOR $100,000 CASH--------Demon Slugger of American League, Who Made 29 Home Runs Last Season, Goes to New York ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • One Shot at Forever

    A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season

    by Chris Ballard ...
    " One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart." -- Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys WonIn 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout

    A Collection of the Greatest Blue Jays Stories Ever Told

    by Jim Prime ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    From the club’s inception in the late ’70s; to winning the division for the first time in the ’80s; Joe Carter’s epic home run; the two World Series titles in the early ’90s; the reign of Roy Halliday; and everything in between, the Blue Jays have continued to build a storied history as one of baseball’s most exciting teams. In Tales from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout, Jim Prime, who has written ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under The March Sun : The Story Of Spring Training

    by Charles Fountain ...
    There is nothing in all of American sport quite like baseball's spring training. This annual six-week ritual, whose origins date back nearly a century and a half, fires the hearts and imaginations of fans who flock by the hundreds of thousands to places like Dodgertown to glimpse superstars and living legends in a relaxed moment and watch the drama of journeyman veterans and starry-eyed kids in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Glory Days in Tribe Town

    The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994–1997

    by Terry Pluto, Tom Hamilton ...
    Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory! Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almost any game? When screaming fans rocked the jam-packed stands every night? When a brash young team snapped a forty-year slump and electrified the city? Those weren’t baseball seasons, they were year ... Read more

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  • The 50 Greatest Pirates Every Fan Should Know

    by Lew Freedman ...
    The Pittsburgh Pirates have a long and glorious tradition spanning more than 100 years of baseball and the Pirates have been blessed with some of the best players in the games history wearing t heir uniforms and sporting a P on their cap.Pirate greats go back to before the turn of the 20th Century and top players continue to dress out in Pittsburgh gold and black today. Any list of the best is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD