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Major League Baseball: Technique and Tactics

By: Allen, Ethan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The MacMillan Company: 1947

Seller ID: 2261622

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Two one-inch tears along top edge of jacket, faint crease along bottom edge of jacket front, front jacket flap clipped. 1947 Hard Cover. xix, 253 pp. Illustrated with 232 black-and-white pictures. CONTENTS: Part I. Defensive Baseball: General Fundamentals, The Pitcher, The Catcher, General Defense for Infielders and Outfielders, General Infield Defense, The First Baseman, General Defense for the Second Baseman and Shortstop, The Second Baseman, The Shortstop, The Third Baseman, The Outfielder; Part II. Offensive Baseball: Batting, Bunting, Base Running, Sliding, Coaching; Part III. Management:...
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Weatherby's Inning: A Story of College Life and Baseball

By: Barbour, Ralph H. [Henry]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 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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A Lifetime of Nightclubs and Ballparks

By: Costello, Fred

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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 Short Stop

By: Grey, Zane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1914

Seller ID: 2294783

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Reissue. Binding has been repaired. Ink name on front free endpaper, general light wear. 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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The Short-Stop

By: Grey, Zane

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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Box Socials

By: Kinsella, W.P.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: 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: 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: 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: 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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A Lifetime of Yankee Octobers

By: Maiorana, Sal

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2187082

ISBN: 1585360392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author. An exceptional copy. Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. It is a look at the New York Yankees through the eighty-five-year-old eyes of life-long Bronx resident, Joseph Kimmerle. A fictional character, Kimmerle has served as batboy, scribe or confidante for every Yankee team since 1923. He has been like a son to Babe Ruth, a trusted friend of Joe DiMaggios, and a father figure for current manager, Joe Torre. A Lifetime of Yankee Octobers is Kimmerles chronicle of the Yankees twenty-six World Series victories, the seasons th...
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The Natural

By: Malamud, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: 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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The Catcher and the Manager: Two Baseball Fables

By: O'Rourke, Frank

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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. We have more books available by this author!. 144 pp. Two short novels by a top writer of sports fiction for the slicks. Part of Barnes' Sports Novel series. KEYWORDS: FRANK OROURKE CATCHER MANAGER TWO 2 BASEBALL FABLES SPORTS FICTION
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The Great American Novel

By: Roth, Philip

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1973

Seller ID: 2270442

ISBN: 0030045169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, boards lightly soiled, jacket toned with a few small tears, jacket flaps lightly creased. 1973 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 382 pp. ...the story of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league baseball team in America history, whose wretched players wander like refugees from one Patriot League city to the next during World War Two...
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Billy Martin: The Story of Baseball's Unpredictable Genius

By: Schoor, Gene

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1980

Seller ID: 2200955

ISBN: 0385152809

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Page toned. Jacket toned. 1980 Hard Cover. 228 pp. A biography of the controversial baseball player, coach, and manager who has managed such teams as the Minneapolis Twins, Detroit Tigers, and New York Yankees. Alfred Manuel Billy Martin (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989) was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. He is best known as the manager of the New York Yankees, a position he held five different times. As Yankees manager, he led the team to consecutive American League pennants in 1976 and 1977; the Yankees were swept in the 1976 World Series by th...
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Guarding the Keystone Sack (Big League Series, Book 10)

By: Standish, Burt L.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: 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: 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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The Man on First (Big League Series, Book 11)

By: Standish, Burt L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1920

Seller ID: 2290191

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Large chip to jacket spine base which obscures publisher name, jacket spine head chipped, a few minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges. Page ridges very faintly foxed, pencil note on front endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. Book eleven of the Big League Series. Illustrated by Charles Wrenn. 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 ...
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The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant

By: Wallop, Douglass

Price: $7.00

Publisher: 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: 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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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: .:

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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