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Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out The Babe to Teeing It Up with the President

By: Auker, Elden; Keegan, Tom

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Triumph Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2307415

ISBN: 1892049252

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by both authors without inscriptions. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. v, 218 pp. Kick back and take a trip in time to meet some of baseballs all-time great personalities, with one of them as your own personal guide. Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms brings baseball legends to life through the eyes of Elden Auker, a submarine-style pitcher in the American League from 1933 through 1942. Auker, one of the last living pitchers to have faced Babe Ruth, teamed with baseball greats Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Jimmie Foxx, Charlier Gehringer, and Mickey Cochrane,...
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Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph H. [Henry]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1903

Seller ID: 2289151

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, rear hinge starting, ink gift note on front endpaper, one inch tear along edge of fourth plate. 1903 Hard Cover. vii, 249 pp. Color frontispiece and 5 color plates by C.M. Relyea. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ralph Henry Barbour (November 13, 1870 February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who primarily wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. In collaboration with L. H. Bickford, he also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell, notably Phyllis in Bohemia. Other works included light romances and adventure.
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Double Play: A Story of School and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., D. Appleton and Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2186583

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Bottom right front corner of cover stained, front paste-down endpaper torn away from binding, rear hinge loose. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 315 pp. A story of boarding school and baseball.
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Who's Who in Baseball: Complete Star Players' Records from Their First Day in Professional Baseball

By: Baseball Magazine Company

Price: $50.00

Publisher: ., Baseball Magazine Company: 1930

Seller ID: 2207833

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Fifteenth edition. Lightly toned, minor wear to corners. 1930 Stapled Binding. 94 pp. Printed wrappers, stapled binding. An early guide to the playing statistics of star baseball players, including their age, height, weight, birthplace, full name, first game, first club, number of games played, positions played, career batting average, trades, drafts, and sales. It also mentions unique events of the 1929 season, and provides World's Series records and complete pitchers' records. Among the prominent players mentioned are: George Herman ('Babe') Ruth, Jr.; Henry Louis ('Lou') Gehrig; and Rogers ...
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Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player

By: Berra, Yogi; Fitzgerald, Ed

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1961

Seller ID: 2307991

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base chipped, jacket edges rubbed. 1961 Hard Cover. 234 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra (May 12, 1925 September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher, who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (19461963, 1965), all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a playermore than any other player in MLB history.[2] Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 358 home runs and 1,430 runs...
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Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars; or, The Rivals of Riverside (Baseball Joe Series, Book 1)

By: Chadwick, Lester (Garis, Howard Roger)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Company: 1912

Seller ID: 2308189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Lacks title/copyright page and last advertisement page. Board corners bumped, hinges starting, ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper. 1912 Hard Cover. 246 pp. In this volume, the first of the series, Joe is introduced as an everyday country boy who loves to play baseball and is particularly anxious to make his mark as a pitcher. He finds it almost impossible to get on the local nine, but, after a struggle, he succeeds, although much frowned upon by the star pitcher of the club. Some exciting contests follow, and also a number of other adventures, dear to the hearts of all young readers. I...
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A Lifetime of Nightclubs and Ballparks

By: Costello, Fred

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Fred Costello: 2010

Seller ID: 2263717

ISBN: 0615345220

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light water stain along bottom edge. 2010 Soft Cover. 163 pp. Fred Costello is a Syracuse native who has spent his life around baseball and music often in and around Rochester. His time in semi-pro baseball, playing in mob-owned nightclubs, and many more experiences are discussed in this book.
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The Crow and the Eagle: A True Fable: How a Great Sportsman Made Fair Play an Economic Success

By: Danenbarger, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Salem, MA, Stormblock Publishing: 2003

Seller ID: 2268377

ISBN: 0972899804

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. The Crow and the Eagle describes the struggle for success that every person with vision has had to face, and how a Cy Young-winning baseball pitcher overcame those obstacles - both in the New York Yankee's golden fifties and through to his own golden years.
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Slick: My Life In and Around Baseball

By: Ford, Whitey; Pepe, Phil

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc.: 1987

Seller ID: 2308821

ISBN: 0688066909

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Top page ridge lightly foxed, gift note on front free endpaper. 1987 Hard Cover. 256 pp. Whitey Ford tells the story of his rise from the sandlots of New York to national prominence at Yankee Stadium, describing events from the Yankee past and the golden age of baseball.
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The Short-Stop

By: Grey, Zane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1914

Seller ID: 2300598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Spine faded, edges lightly rubbed. 1914 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 310 pp. Seventeen-year-old Chase relies on his talent and inner resources as he struggles to succeed as a professional baseball player.
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Three Finger Joe (Saalfield Sports Books No. 1129)

By: Heyliger, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio / New York, The Saalfield Publishing Company: 1937

Seller ID: 2197469

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Spine edge repaired, edges rubbed, pencil name on front board verso, pages toned. 1937 Small Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Illustrated byRobert A. Graef. The story of Three Finger Joe and America's favorite pastime.
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Box Socials

By: Kinsella, W.P.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1992

Seller ID: 2274265

ISBN: 0345377494

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, minor pencil note on rear endpaper verso. 1992 Hard Cover. 225 pp. From the author of Shoeless Joe, the book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams. Here's the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock, a small-town greaser whose claim to fame was hitting a baseball clean across the Pembina River, almost got a tryout with the genuine St. Louis Cardinals but instead ended up batting against Bob Feller of Cleveland Indian Fame in Renfrew Park, Edmonton, Alberta.
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Clarkville's Battery; or Baseball vs. Gangsters (Champion Sport Stories, Book 4)

By: Lawton, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Company: 1937

Seller ID: 2289581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket chipped along front hinge near spine, multiple chips to top edge of jacket, two half-inch tears along jacket spine base. Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper. 1937 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. iii, 203 pp. Tom Raynor and Bert West perform daring rescues during a damaging flood, outwit a group of gangsters trying to interfere with Clarkville's baseball team, and climax their adventures by starring in the most important game of the season.
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Ted Williams: The Eternal Kid

By: Linn, Ed

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Sports Magazine Library: 1961

Seller ID: 2281905

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

1st printing. Pages lightly toned. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. A biography of one of baseball's most legendary starts.
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The Great Baseball Mystery: The 1919 World's Series

By: Luhrs, Victor

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2294911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards and edges lightly foxed, 2 inch closed tear to front jacket corner and minor loss from other corners, jacket price clipped. 1966 Hard Cover. 318 pp. 8vo. An investigation of the 'Black Sox' scandal of 1919, which involved the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. Accusations of collusion with organized gambling rings were aimed at eight members of the White Sox, who allegedly attempted to throw the series, and despite their later acquittal were banned from the game.
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The Natural

By: Malamud, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Dell: 1971

Seller ID: 2292369

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

1971 reprint. Pages toned. We have more books available by this author!. Roy Hobbs is a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious. Adapted into a hit movie starring Robert Redford.
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

By: Murphy, Cait; Creamer, Robert W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Smithsonian Books / Harper Collins: 2007

Seller ID: 2309361

ISBN: 0060889373

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

5th printing. Edges lightly rubbed. 2007 Hard Cover. xv, 368 pp. Foreword by Robert W. Creamer. From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifestthese days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one would have laughed: The Cubs were, without doubt, baseball's greatest teamthe first dynasty of the 20th century. Crazy '08 recounts the 1908 seasonthe year when Peerless Leader Frank Chance's men went toe to toe to toe with John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's New York Giants and Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh P...
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The Catcher and the Manager: Two Baseball Fables

By: O'Rourke, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes and Company: 1953

Seller ID: 2204830

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages toned. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears. 1953 Hard Cover. 144 pp. Two short novels by a top writer of sports fiction for the slicks. Part of Barnes' Sports Novel series.
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Red Wings Yearbook '92 (Rochester Red Wings)

By: Rochester Red Wings; Socci, Bob

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, Rochester Red Wings: 1992

Seller ID: 2309415

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Faint edge wear. 1992 Stapled Binding. Photos, statistics, and player profiles make this a must-have collectible for Red Wings' fans.
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Soldiers at Bat

By: Scholz, Jackson

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1942

Seller ID: 2307165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 1942 Hard Cover. 271 pp. A minor league baseball player enlists in the U.S. Army during World War II. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jackson Volney Scholz (March 15, 1897 October 26, 1986) was an American sprint runner. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. After his athletic career, he also gained fame as a writer.--Wikipedia
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Guarding the Keystone Sack (Big League Series, Book 10)

By: Standish, Burt L.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1917

Seller ID: 2290185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine lightly toned, a few light spots on front board, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper. 1917 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 254 pp. Book ten of the Big League Series. Illustrated by T.S. Tousey. An American boy with plenty of grit--baseball at its finest,--and the girl in the case--these are the elements which compose the most successful of juvenile fiction.
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Brick King Backstop (Big League Series, Book 5)

By: Standish, Burt L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1914

Seller ID: 2290186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine lightly toned, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, small chip to top corner of front endpaper. 1914 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 317 pp. Book five of the Big League Series. An American boy with plenty of grit--baseball at its finest,--and the girl in the case--these are the elements which compose the most successful of juvenile fiction.
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Lefty Locke, Pitcher-Manager (Lefty Series Book 9)

By: Standish, Burt L.; Wrenn, Charles W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins: 1916

Seller ID: 2200145

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket, corners bumped, light general wear to boards, sticker to front paste-down endpaper, pages toned. 1916 Hard Cover. 317 pp. Illustrated by Charles W. Wrenn.[...] Directed by Locke, the Grays put in an hour of sharp practice that forenoon. As Lefty had stated, the team was practically comprised of winter visitors from the North. Some of them had come South for their health, too. Three were well along in the thirties, and one had passed forty. Yet, for all such handicaps, they were an enthusiastic, energetic team, and they could play the game. At least five of them had on...
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The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

By: Wallop, Douglass

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Norton: 1954

Seller ID: 2301670

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Book club edition. Lacks jacket, light edge wear. 1954 Hard Cover. Joe, a middle-age man, sells his soul to the devil for a chance to become the great ballplayer who heroically leads his Washington club to triumph over their hated big city rivals. But victory, when achieved will be won at a price Joe may not be willing to pay.
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Baseball: An Illustrated History

By: Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 2275923

ISBN: 0679765417

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1994 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, [1], 486 pp. Baseball is indeed a mirror of American life, and Ward and Burns show how well America's story is told through baseball. Their book is the companion to a nine-part PBS television documentary scheduled to begin on September 18. In format and approach it resembles the authors' previous best seller, The Civil War (LJ 9/1/90). Each chapter, or inning, proceeds chronologically with a dominant theme and dramatis personae. The profusion of striking illustrations add an extra dimension...
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Fundamentals of Baseball

By: Wardlaw, Charles D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1924

Seller ID: 2308418

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Rear board lightly soiled, ink stamp on front free endpaper. 1924 Hard Cover. 24 black-and-white photographic plates; diagrams and graphs follow text; includes chapter on baseball mechanics by David K. Brace. CONTENTS: Foreword; Throwing; Pitching; Catching; Batting; Base-Sliding; Coaching a Team; Testing the Mechanics of Baseball, by David K. Brace.
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The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame

By: Whittington, E. Michael; Bradley, Douglas E.; Day, Jane Stevenson; Leyenaar, Ted J.J.; Miller, Mary; Moctezume, Eduardo Matos; Nadal, Laura Filloy; Scott, John F.; Taladoire, Eric; Tarkanian, Michael; Hosler, Dorothy, Uriarte, Maria Teresa

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Thames & Hudson: 2001

Seller ID: 2305952

ISBN: 0500051089

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket corners lightly bumped. 2001 Large Hardcover. 288 pp. Includes 323 illustrations, 171 in color. The Olmec began playing ballgames around 1800 BC, an activity that soon became an important part of Mesoamerican life. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina and includes 11 essays from the world's leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture. The contributors consider all aspects of ballgames, enactment, gender and symbolic aspects, the regalia worn, `performance', the court setting, and the legacy of the game. The catalogue contains many super...
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The Science of Hitting

By: Williams, Ted; Underwood, John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1971

Seller ID: 2309515

ISBN: 0671208926

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, one inch chip to top edge of and one inch tear to bottom edge of rear jacket panel, ink marks on rear jacket panel. A near fine copy in a good jacket. 1971 Large Hardcover. Baseballs last .400 hitter share[s] his secrets in this primer still used at all levels of the game. Paul Dickson, author of Bill Veeck: Baseballs Greatest Maverick Now fully revised with new illustrations and diagrams, the classic and still the greatest book on hitting from the last baseball player to break the magic .400 barrier, Ted Williams. Ted Williams was arguably t...
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Take 'Em Into Camp! The History of the Husky Farmers and Baseball in Honeoye Falls, N.Y.

By: Worboys, Paul and Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, .:

Seller ID: 2276904

Binding: Spiral-Bound Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor pencil marginalia. Unpaginated. The History of the Husky Farmers and Baseball in Honeoye Falls, N.Y.
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