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By: Allen, Ethan
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The MacMillan Company: 1947
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261622
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:... View more info
By: Baldwin, Stan; Jenkins, Jerry; Aaron, Hank
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Chilton Book Company: 1974
Seller ID: 2302780
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket spine head bumped, a few small tears to jacket edges, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1974 Hard Cover. 205 pp. A biography of Hank Aaron. Henry Louis Aaron (born February 5, 1934), nicknamed Hammer or Hammerin' Hank, is a retired American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder who serves as the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL), from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he sti... View more info
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289151
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. View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2186583
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. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Baseball Magazine Company: 1930
Seller ID: 2207833
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 ... View more info
By: Costello, Fred
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Fred Costello: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263717
ISBN: 0615345220
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. View more info
By: Fallon, Michael
Price: $12.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202845
ISBN: 0803249403
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An excellent copy. 2016 Hard Cover. xii, 454 pp. The 1977–78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squared off with the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. The Dodgers’ run was a long time in the making after years of struggle and featured many homegrown players who went on to noteworthy or Hall of Fame careers, including Don Sutton, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, and Steve Yeager. Dodgerland is the story of those memorable teams as Chavez Ravine began to change, baseball was about to enter a new era, and American culture ... View more info
By: Grey, Zane
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1914
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294783
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. View more info
By: Grey, Zane
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1914
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2300598
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. View more info
By: Kinsella, W.P.
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274265
ISBN: 0345377494
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. View more info
By: Lawton, Charles
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Cupples & Leon Company: 1937
Seller ID: 2289581
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. View more info
By: Linn, Ed
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Sports Magazine Library: 1961
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2281905
Condition: Good
1st printing. Pages lightly toned. 1961 Mass Market Paperback. A biography of one of baseball's most legendary starts. View more info
By: Lipset, Lew
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Lew Lipset: 1984
Seller ID: 2279588
Condition: Near Fine
Spine head and spine base very lightly bumped, rear wrapper creased. 1984 Stapled Binding. 72 pp. The woodcuts that are illustrated on the following pages were a series that started in the April 12, 1879 issue and proved to be popular enough to be issued weekly thru January of 1880. The woodcuts continued with other sports figures and theatrical personalities when the Clipper indicated a new series was starting in the May 15, 1880 issue. This series ran for 28 consecutive weeks. The New York Clipper, also known as The Clipper, was a weekly entertainment newspaper published in New York City fro... View more info
By: Luhrs, Victor
Price: $30.00
Publisher: A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc.: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2294911
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. View more info
By: Maiorana, Sal
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press: 2002
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2187082
ISBN: 1585360392
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... View more info
By: Malamud, Bernard
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Dell: 1971
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2292369
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. View more info
By: O'Rourke, Frank
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company: 1953
Seller ID: 2204830
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 View more info
By: Pluto, Terry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New Century Publishers: 1982
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2297094
ISBN: 0832901253
Condition: Very Good
Jacket edges rubbed, small tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. 1982 Hard Cover. x, 207 pp. Earl Sidney Weaver (August 14, 1930 – January 19, 2013) was an American professional baseball player, Hall of Fame Major League manager, author, and television broadcaster. After playing in minor league baseball, he retired without playing in Major League Baseball (MLB). He became a minor league manager, and then managed in MLB for 17 years with the Baltimore Orioles (1968–82; 1985–86). Weaver's style of managing was summed up in the quote: pitching, defense, and the three-run homer. He d... View more info
By: Roth, Philip
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270442
ISBN: 0030045169
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... View more info
By: Schoor, Gene
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1980
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2200955
ISBN: 0385152809
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... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Julian Messner, Inc.: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271358
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket price clipped, ink stamp on bottom corner of front jacket flap, publisher sticker on jacket spine. 1961 Hard Cover. 192 pp. 8vo. A biography of the influential African American baseball player, notable as one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in at least fifteen seasons. View more info
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1917
Seller ID: 2290185
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. View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1914
Seller ID: 2290186
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. View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1915
Seller ID: 2290188
Condition: Very Good
Jacket chipped along spine base and bottom edge of front jacket panel which partially obscures publisher and author name, jacket spine head chipped, a few small tears and small chips to jacket edges, front jacket flap creased. Pencil name on front paste-down endpaper. 1915 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Book seven of the Big League Series. Illustrated by Clare Angell. 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. View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1920
Seller ID: 2290191
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. View more info
By: Standish, Burt L.; Wrenn, Charles W.
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200145
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 ... View more info
By: Wallop, Douglass
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Norton: 1954
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2301670
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. View more info
By: Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260778
ISBN: 0679404597
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 1994 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv, 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 ... View more info
By: Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1994
Seller ID: 2275923
ISBN: 0679765417
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... View more info
By: Whiting, Robert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Permanent Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2299084
Condition: Near Fine
A nice copy. 1977 Soft Cover. 246 pp. Includes green jacket. A book about Japanese baseball. View more info
