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100 Years of the World Series: 1903-2004by Eric EndersISBN 1402725841 (1-4027-2584-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '100 Years of the World Series: 1903-2004'Book summary:The ultimate homage to the biggest event in America's pastime-now updated to include the record-breaking, curse-ending 2004 victory by the Boston Red Sox. Written by noted baseball historian Eric Enders, this large-format, year-by-year, encyclopedic volume is the most detailed reference on the Series ever published. It's packed with fascinating sidebars and hundreds of remarkable photographs of legends like Ruth, Jackson, and Bonds at play, as well as candid behind-the-scenes shots and breathtaking panoramic park views. With this comprehensive play-by-play, fans can relive a century's worth of heartstopping action, unforgettable performances, and human drama.[via]More editions of 100 Years of the World Series: 1903-2004:
1939: Baseball's Pivotal Year From the Golden Age to the Modern Eraby Talmage Boston, Mike TowleISBN 1565301439 (1-56530-143-9)
Hardcover, Summit Group
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America's National Game: Historic Facts Concerning the Beginning Evolution, Development and Popularity of Base Ball With Personal Reminiscences of Iby Albert G. SpaldingISBN 0962287423 (0-9622874-2-3)
Hardcover, Halo Books
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Babeby Robert CreamerISBN 067176070X (0-671-76070-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babe'Book summary:The life of baseballs grandest figure, told in extraordinary detailNearly a century has passed since George Herman Ruth made his major league debut, and in that time millions of words have been used to describe baseballs greatest hero. But for a man like the Babe, for whom the phrase larger than life seems to have been coined, those millions of words have created a mythologized legacy. Who was the real Babe Ruth?Relying on exhaustive research and interviews with teammates, family members, and friends, historian Robert W. Creamer separates fact from fiction and paints an honest and fascinating portrait of the slugger. This is the definitive biography of a man who was, in legend and in truth, the best who ever lived.
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Babe, the Legend Comes to Lifeby Robert W. CreamerISBN 0140068597 (0-14-006859-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Baseball: An Illustrated Historyby Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken BurnsISBN 0679765417 (0-679-76541-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Baseball and Other Matters in 1941: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-- In the Year America Went to Warby Robert W. CreamerISBN 0803264062 (0-8032-6406-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Baseball As I Have Known Itby Fred Lieb, Lawrence S. RitterISBN 0803279620 (0-8032-7962-0)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Baseball As I Have Known Itby Frederick George LiebISBN 0698108159 (0-698-10815-9)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Baseball Catalogby Dan SchlossbergISBN 0824604261 (0-8246-0426-1)
Hardcover, Jonathan David Pub
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Baseball in 41by Robert W. CreamerISBN 0670833746 (0-670-83374-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball in 41'Book summary:A celebration the best baseball seasons in history discusses DiMaggio's fifty-six-game hitting streak, Ted Williams's .406 batting average, the Yankees classic World Series, and such baseball personalities as Lefty Grove, Bobby Feller, and Hank Greenberg. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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Baseball in '41: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-In the Year America Went to Warby Robert W. CreamerISBN 0140169431 (0-14-016943-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from the Twenties to the Forties, Told by the Men Who Played Itby Donald HonigISBN 0803272677 (0-8032-7267-7)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from the Twenties to the Forties, Told by the Men Who Played It'Book summary:No sport reveres its past quite the way baseball does, and no sport has mined the richness of its oral tradition quite the way baseball has. Picking up where Lawrence Ritter left off in the marvelous classic The Glory of Their Times, Honig set out across the country with a tape recorder to preserve the voices--and memories--of the men who played the game between the two World Wars. This is a wonderful and essential collection, full of bravado, pride, and passion for the game, with a lineup that includes Bob Feller, Lefty Grove, Johnny Mize, Charlie Gehringer, and Pete Reiser. You don't so much read it as put your ear to it, as it alternately whispers and roars.
Just listen to Hall of Fame hurler Wes Farrell, in the midst of explaining the art of the knockdown pitch, segue into what it was like to face Babe Ruth, just one of the volume's hundreds of remarkable moments: "I never threw at Ruth, though. You just didn't do that. He was baseball. What was it like pitching to him? Like looking into a lion's jaw, that's what. Hell, man, you're pitching to a legend! And you knew, too, that if he hits a home run, he's gonna get cheers, and if he strikes out, he's still gonna get the cheers. You were nothing when Ruth came up."
Nicely illustrated with vintage action and portrait photos, Baseball When the Grass Was Real gives a fine face to its voices, but long after the cheering's stopped, it's the voices that remain memorable. By preserving them as fully as he has, Honig's provided a virtual vehicle for traveling through time and eavesdropping on history. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball in the Forties, Told by the Men Who Played Itby Donald HonigISBN 0698106601 (0-698-10660-1)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstractby Bill James, Mary A. WirthISBN 0394758056 (0-394-75805-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Birth of a Dynasty: Behind The Pinstripes With The 1996 Yankeesby Joel Sherman, David ConeISBN 1594862443 (1-59486-244-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneersby John B. HolwayISBN 0887360947 (0-88736-094-7)
Hardcover, Mecklermedia
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Boys of Summerby Roger KahnISBN 0060883960 (0-06-088396-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boys of Summer'Book summary:This is a book about some young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s in such places as Reading, Pennsylvania; Anderson, Indiana; Plainfield, New Jersey; Woonsocket, Rhode Island; and then went on to play for one of the most exciting professional teams that the major leagues ever fielded--the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s--the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson and set many other records besides.
It is also a book by and about a once-young sportswriter for the Herald Tribune who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, was nurtured on Joyce and Shakespeare and occasionally escaped to see his bumbling heroes play, and then had the miraculous good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodger team for the Tribune.
Finally, this is a book about what's happened since to Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo and the others, no longer boys but men in their middle years with their glories behind them. For some, they have been happy years; to others, fate has not been kind. In short, it is a book about America and how it has progressed from the 1930s to the 1970s, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster. Told with warmth, humor, wit, candor and love, The Boys of Summer is delightful and exhilarating.
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Boys of Summer: ISBN 0451134338 (0-451-13433-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Boys of Summer: ISBN 0060122390 (0-06-012239-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Boys of Summer: ISBN 0060883960 (0-06-088396-0)
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgersby Peter GolenbockISBN 0809223953 (0-8092-2395-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Cincinnati Redsby Lee AllenISBN 0873388860 (0-87338-886-0)
Softcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroitby Richard BakISBN 0814323561 (0-8143-2356-1)
Softcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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Cy Young: A Baseball Lifeby Reed BrowningISBN 1558493980 (1-55849-398-0)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964by Peter GolenbockISBN 0809223945 (0-8092-2394-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908by Dean A. SullivanISBN 0803292449 (0-8032-9244-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908'Book summary:Until some scientific Babe Ruth perfects a prudent technique for time travel, the best way to experience a past rich with flavor and immediacy remains through access to primary, contemporary sources. The way it brings the past into the present, Early Innings should bill itself as a tour guide for armchair travel into baseball's beginnings and infancy.
Essentially, it's a scrapbook--carefully researched and assembled--of the game's evolution from the earliest published report of a "bass-ball" challenge match between Upstate New York teams in 1825 to the 1901 birth of the American League and the spurious 1908 report on the origin of the game that pitched the myth of Cooperstown and Abner Doubleday. Sullivan's sources run the bases from newspaper and periodical accounts to letters to excerpts from such documents as "Spalding's Official Baseball Guide," each packaged with individual introductions to lend context to the text.
Combining serious scholarship and fascinating journalism, Early Innings covers the kind of territory good center fielders dream of. Some of its more curious bits of ephemera: the first published account--with something resembling a box score--of a ball game in a New York paper from 1845; an 1856 defense of the game as a "manly exercise"; the 1862 obituary of James Creighton, one of the game's prehistoric stars; Henry Chadwick's 1867 "Ancient History of Baseball" (with, not surprisingly, no mention of Doubleday or Cooperstown at all); the document excluding blacks from the National Association of Base Ball Players; William Hulbert's original proposal to form the National League; a chronicle of the first game played under the lights--informally, in Nantucket; the rule change setting the current distance between the plate and the mound; John McGraw's defection from the Baltimore Orioles to the New York Giants; and the Boston Globe's account of Cy Young's defeat in the opening game of the first World Series. As extensive as it is appealing, Early Innings informs, instructs, entertains, and amazes, just like the game it sheds its light on. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Seriesby Eliot Asinof, Stephen J. GouldISBN 0805065377 (0-8050-6537-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Series'Book summary:The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America! First published in 1963, Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nations leading gamblers to throw the Series in Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the deeply shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story, and the war-exhausted nation that turned with relief and pride to the Series, only to be rocked by the scandal. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this is a compelling slice of American history in the aftermath of World War I and at the cusp of the Roaring Twenties.
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Eight Men Out: The Blacksox and the 1919 World Series: ISBN 0708958524 (0-7089-5852-4)
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The Evolution of Baseball: A History of the Major Leagues in Graphs, 1903-1989by Russell O. WrightISBN 0899507123 (0-89950-712-3)
Softcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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The Fireside Book of Baseballby Charles EinsteinISBN 0671638122 (0-671-63812-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Game Day: Yankee Baseball The Greatest Games, Players, Managers, and Teams in the Glorious Tradition of Yankee Baseballby Athlon Sports, Tyler KepnerISBN 1572438355 (1-57243-835-5)
Hardcover, Triumph Books
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A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball the Game Behind the Scenesby Peter MorrisISBN 1566637058 (1-56663-705-8)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, The Game on the Fieldby Peter MorrisISBN 1566636779 (1-56663-677-9)
Hardcover, Ivan R Dee
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told My the Men Who Played Itby Lawrence S. RitterISBN 0688112730 (0-688-11273-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Joe DiMaggioby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0756779766 (0-7567-7976-6)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseballby Paul DicksonISBN 0802713076 (0-8027-1307-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseballby Leonard KoppettISBN 1566396387 (1-56639-638-7)
Hardcover, Temple University Press
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Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball 1945-1972by Dean A. SullivanISBN 0803292856 (0-8032-9285-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrigby Jonathan EigISBN 0743268938 (0-7432-6893-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Luckiest Man: The Life And Death of Lou Gehrig'Book summary:Lou Gehrig started his professional baseball career at a time when players began to be seen as national celebrities. Though this suited charismatic men such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Gehrig avoided the spotlight and preferred to speak with his bat. Best known for playing in 2,130 consecutive games as well as his courage in battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a disease that now bears his name), the Iron Horse that emerges from this book is surprisingly naïve and insecure. He would cry in the clubhouse after disappointing performances, was painfully shy around women (much to the amusement of some of his teammates), and particularly devoted to his German-immigrant mother all his life. Even after earning the league MVP award he still feared the Yankees would let him go. Against the advice of Ruth and others, he refused to negotiate aggressively and so earned less than he deserved for many seasons. Honest, humble, and notoriously frugal, his only vices were chewing gum and the occasional cigarette. And despite becoming one of the finest first basemen of all time, Jonathan Eig shows how Gehrig never seemed to conquer his self-doubt, only to manage it better.
Jonathan Eig's Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig offers a fascinating and well-rounded portrait of Gehrig, from his dugout rituals and historic games to his relationships with his mother, wife, coaches, and teammates. His complex friendship with Ruth, who was the polar opposite to Gehrig in nearly every respect, is given particularly vivid attention. Take this revealing description of how the two men began a barnstorming tour together following their 1927 World Series victory: "Ruth tipped the call girls and sent them on their way. Gehrig kissed his mother goodbye." Eig also shares some previously unknown details regarding his consecutive games streak and how he dealt with ALS during the final years of his life. Rich in anecdotes and based on hundreds of interviews and 200 pages of recently discovered letters, the book effectively shows why the Iron Horse remains an American icon to this day. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Men at Workby George F. WillISBN 0785773312 (0-7857-7331-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael LewisISBN 078625968X (0-7862-5968-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human Historyby David W. Anderson, Keith OlbermannISBN 0803259468 (0-8032-5946-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History'Book summary:I have done a report of some kind on the Fred Merkle story, whether in print, on radio, or on TV, on or about its anniversary, September 23, virtually every year since I was in college. The saga has always seemed to me to be a microcosm not just of baseball, nor of celebrity, but of life. The rules sometimes change while youre playing the game. Those you trust to tell you the changes often dont bother to. That for which history still mocks you, would have gone unnoticed if you had done it a year or a month or a day before. Thats who Fred Merkle is. I have often proposed September 23 as a national day of amnesty, in Fred Merkle's memory. Keith Olbermann, from his foreword.[via]More editions of More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History:
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My Prison Without Barsby Pete Rose, Rick HillISBN 1579549276 (1-57954-927-6)
Hardcover, Rodale Press, Incorporated
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My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Lifeby John Underwood, Ted WilliamsISBN 0671634232 (0-671-63423-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life'Book summary:Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career.
An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it is played in the 1980s. It's all here in this brilliant, honest and sometimes angry autobiography -- Williams' childhood days in San Diego, his military service, his unforgettable major league baseball debut and ensuing Hall of Fame career that included two Triple Crowns, two Most Valuable Player awards, six batting championships, five Sporting News awards as Major League Player of the Year, 521 lifetime homeruns and a .344 career batting average. And Williams tells his side of the controversies, from his battles with sportswriters and Boston fans to his single World Series performance and his career with the declining Red Sox of the 1950s.
My Turn at Bat belongs in the library of everyone who loves Ted Williams, baseball, or great life stories well-told.
Red Barber proclaimed My Turn at Bat to be: "One of the best baseball books I've ever read." John Leonard of The New York Times said My Turn at Bat was "unbuttoned and wholly engaging...the portrait of an original who is unrepentant about being better than anyone else." [via]
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstractby Bill JamesISBN 0743227220 (0-7432-2722-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic'Book summary:In 1985, when Bill James, by then already baseball's "Sultan of Stats" "(The Boston Globe)" and author of a bestselling annual compendium entitled "The Baseball Abstract," wrote a 700-page book entitled "The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," he produced an immediate classic. Lawrence Ritter, author of "The Glory of Their Times," called it one of the three greatest baseball books ever written. Jonathan Yardley of "The Washington Post" wrote, "My own shelf of genuinely first-rate baseball books is very small, but a place will have to be found on it for this one." It's back. "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," like the original, is really several books in one. The Game is a history of baseball, decade by decade, from the 1880s through the 1990s. For each decade, the "New Abstract" offers a bulleted summary incorporating the obvious -- highest batting average, best won-lost record by team -- and the eccentric. Included in the latter are such categories as Heaviest Player (for the 1930s: Jumbo Brown, a 6'4" 295-lb. pitcher), Most Admirable Superstar (for the 1960s: Roberto Clemente), Worst-Hitting Pitcher, Best Minor League Player, innovations in equipment, and dozens more. Also in each decade/chapter are essays on How, Where, and by Whom the game was played; uniforms; Best Minor League Teams; articles on forgotten achievements such as Wally Moses's remarkable 1936 campaign, or Jim Baumann's 72 home runs for Roswell, Texas (the minor league home-run record) in 1954. In The Players, James ranks -- and writes about -- the top 100 players at each position in major league baseball history. To support these rankings, he introduces a remarkable newstatistic called "Win Shares," a way of quantifying individual performance and equalizing the offensive "and" defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. [via]
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statisticsby Alan Schwarz, Peter GammonsISBN 0312322232 (0-312-32223-2)
Softcover, Griffin
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In this unprecedented new book, Alan Schwarz - whom bestselling Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls "one of today's best baseball journalists" - provides the first-ever history of baseball statistics, showing how baseball and its numbers have been inseparable ever since the pastime's birth in 1845. He tells the history of this obsession through the lives of the people who felt it most: Henry Chadwick, the 19th-century writer who invented the first box score and harped endlessly about which statistics mattered and which did not; Allan Roth, Branch Rickey's right-hand numbers man with the late-1940s Brooklyn Dodgers; Earnshaw Cook, a scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who retired to pursue inventing the perfect baseball statistic; John Dewan, a former Strat-O-Matic maven who built STATS Inc. into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse for statistics over the Internet; and dozens more.
Almost every baseball fan for 150 years has been drawn to the game by its statistics, whether through newspaper box scores, the backs of Topps baseball cards, The Baseball Encyclopedia, or fantasy leagues. Today's most ardent stat scientists, known as "sabermetricians," spend hundreds of hours coming up with new ways to capture the game in numbers, and engage in holy wars over which statistics are best. Some of these men - and women -- are even being hired by major league teams to bring an understanding of statistics to a sport that for so long shunned it.
Taken together, Schwarz paints a history not just of baseball statistics, but of the soul of the sport itself. The Numbers Game will be an invaluable part of any fan's library and go down as one of the sport's classic books.More editions of The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statistics:
The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseballby Frank DefordISBN 0802142478 (0-8021-4247-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball'Book summary:In The Old Ball Game, America's most beloved sportswriter, Frank Deford, masterfully chronicles how a friendship between two towering figures in baseball helped make the sport a national pastime. At the turn of the twentieth century, every American man wanted to be Christy Mathewson. One of baseball's first superstars, he was clean-cut, didn't pitch on the Sabbath, and rarely spoke a negative word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. Nicknamed "the Little Napoleon," the pugnacious tough guy had been a star baseball player who helped develop the hit-and-run. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the team was coming off its worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series title by throwing three straight shutouts over six days, an incredible feat that is often called the greatest World Series performance ever. Frank Deford, a senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated and weekly commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, recounts the rise of baseball's first superstar, the Giants' ascent into legend, and the sport's transformation into a national obsession. [via]
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Only the Ball Was Whiteby Robert PetersonISBN 0848811240 (0-8488-1124-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Our Game: An American Baseball Historyby Charles C. AlexanderISBN 156731130X (1-56731-130-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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The Perfect Season: Why 1998 Was Baseball's Greatest Yearby Danny Peary, Tim McCarverISBN 0812991710 (0-8129-9171-0)
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The Pitch That Killedby Mike SowellISBN 1566635519 (1-56663-551-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pitch That Killed'Book summary:Since major league baseball began in 1871, there have been roughly thirty million pitches thrown to batters. Only one of them killed a man. This is the story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Was it, as most baseball observers thought at the time, a tragic but unavoidable accident? Mike Sowell's brilliant book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to one of baseball's darkest moments.
"The best baseball book no one has read."ESPN Magazine
"Splendidly researched and vivid as today. The portraits of baseball as it was, the tragedy itself, and the glowering character of Carl Mays are remarkable."Roger Kahn [via]More editions of The Pitch That Killed:
Pitching in a Pinch or Baseball from the Insideby Christy MathewsonISBN 0803282125 (0-8032-8212-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Pitching in a Pinch: Or, Baseball from the Insideby Christopher Mathewson, John N. WheelerISBN 0812822072 (0-8128-2207-2)
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Play by Play: 25 Years of Royals on Radioby Fred White, Matt Fulks, Denny Matthews, George BrettISBN 1886110786 (1-886110-78-6)
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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseballby Warren Jay GoldsteinISBN 0801499240 (0-8014-9924-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball'Book summary:In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century.
Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacyby Jane LeavyISBN 075678087X (0-7567-8087-X)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Satchel Paigeby Lesa Cline-Ransome, Ransome, James, E.ISBN 0689811519 (0-689-81151-9)
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Streak: Joe Dimaggio and the Summer of '41by Michael SeidelISBN 0803292937 (0-8032-9293-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Subway Series Readerby Pete HamillISBN 0743218086 (0-7432-1808-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Summer of '49by David HalberstamISBN 0060884266 (0-06-088426-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer of '49'Book summary:With the airwaves saturated with so much sporting choice, it's hard to imagine how, not that long ago, baseball so completely dominated the landscape and captured imaginations. Given the 1949 season that veteran journalist David Halberstam meticulously recreates, maybe it's not so hard after all. It was a season of great public and personal drama for the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, with the conflict finally resolving itself in a Yankee pennant following a head-to-head showdown on the final day of the season. Each team was led by a star of the highest magnitude: Joe DiMaggio spurred the Yankees despite missing half the season with a foot injury; Ted Williams virtually carried the Sox on his back, missing an unprecedented third Triple Crown by mere decimal points on his batting average. Halberstam focuses much of his narrative on the trials of these two individual sporting giants, adding fine supporting performances by Yogi Berra, Ellis Kinder, Dom DiMaggio, even restaurateur Toots Shoor. Both on and off the field, Halberstam beautifully captures the ethos of a more innocent game that no longer exists, played by heroes far more driven by their pride than by their salaries. [via]
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Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed Americaby Mike LupicaISBN 0809224445 (0-8092-2444-5)
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The Teammatesby David HalberstamISBN 0786888679 (0-7868-8867-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendshipby David HalberstamISBN 140130057X (1-4013-0057-X)
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Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Heroby Leigh MontvilleISBN 0767913205 (0-7679-1320-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Total Baseballby John ThornISBN 1894963156 (1-894963-15-6)
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Total Baseballby David Reuther, John Thorn, Pete PalmerISBN 044651389X (0-446-51389-X)
Hardcover, Warner Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Total Baseball'Book summary:The most complete, authoritative, and informative baseball encyclopedia available. No other book gives you: 1) The complete statistics for all of the more than 13,000 major league players, with a full array of new and revealing stats compiled from an unparalleled historical database. 2) The top 100 lifetime and single season leaders in batting, pitching, and fielding for 95 different stats. 3) The starting lineups, plus key pitchers and substitutions, for all teams since 1871. 4) Corrections for the thousands of errors in other books of this kind. 5) The detailed history of baseball by the game's reigning historian. 6) The little known story of black baseball before 1947. 7) Biographies of the 400 greatest players, including more than 200 Hall of Famers. 8) The complete balloting for all of baseball's major awards in the 20th Century. 9) Feature chapters on the minor leagues, team histories, Japanese baseball, Latin ball, nicknames, scandals, trades, streaks and feats, commissioners, managers, coaches, umpires, and baseball lore. [via]
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Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseballby John Thorn, Pete Palmer, Michael Gershman, Sean Lahman, Matthew Silverman, Greg SpiraISBN 1930844018 (1-930844-01-8)
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Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopediaby John Thorn, Phil Birnbaum, Bill DeaneISBN 189496327X (1-894963-27-X)
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Total Baseball: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Baseball/Book and Discby John Thorn, Pete PalmerISBN 0062732994 (0-06-273299-4)
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We Played the Game: Memories of Baseball's Greatest Eraby Danny Peary, Brooks Robinson, Lawrence S. RitterISBN 1579122590 (1-57912-259-0)
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What Time Is It? You Mean Now? : Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them Allby Yogi Berra, Dave KaplanISBN 0743237684 (0-7432-3768-4)
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Win SharesISBN 1931584036 (1-931584-03-6)
Softcover, S T A T S Publishing
Find This BookBook summary:Win Shares, a revolutionary system that allows for player evaluation across positions, teams and eras, measures the total sum of player contributions in one groundbreaking number. James' latest advancement in the world of statistical analysis is the next big stepping-stone in the "greatest players of all-time" debate. For as long as baseball has been played, fans have struggled to compare the legends of the game with today's stars. Win Shares by Decade is just one of the many sections you'll find inside to help you judge who ranks where among the pantheon of baseball greats. [via]
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