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By: N/A
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Spinning Print / Union Label Typographical: 1900
Seller ID: 2267225
2 inch closed tear along right edge, 1/2 inch closed tear along left edge, both nearly invisible, a couple internal closed tears. Never folded. 1900 Broadside. 28 x 21. Printed on one side. An early broadside advertising baseball in Webster, N.Y., designed to have the competitor and the date written in. The first baseball team in Webster was organized in 1878. View more info
By: Adomites, Paul; Wisnia, Saul; Nemec, David
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Publications International, Ltd.: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263703
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper. 1996 Large Hardcover. 216 pp. ...a collection of the sport's greatest players, managers, teams, games, ballparks, and so much more. ...With lively text and over 300 engaging photos... View more info
By: Allen, Ethan
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The MacMillan Company: 1947
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261622
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 B... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2186583
First edition. Bottom right front corner of cover stained, front paste-down endpaper torn away from binding, rear hinge loose. 1910 Hard Cover. 315 pp. A story of boarding school and baseball. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Baseball Magazine Company: 1930
Seller ID: 2207833
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' ... View more info
By: Costello, Fred
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Fred Costello: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263717
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
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Penguin: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2264344
Pages faintly toned. 1983 Trade Paperback. In this extraordinary biography, Robert W. Creamer uncovers the complex and captivating man behind the legend. View more info
By: Danzig, Allison; Brandwein, Peter; Kieran, John
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204831
First edition. Very good.One inch chip to top edge of jacket front, three one-inch chips to bottom edge of jacket front, one inch chip to bottom edge of jacket rear, half-inch chip to top edge of jacket spine. 1948 Hard Cover. xii, 296 pp. The greatest era of American Sport Recreated by an All-Star Collection of Sports Writers.CONTENTS: Foreword by John Kieran; Preface by The Editors; The Golden Panorama by Grantland Rice; Baseball by J. Roy Stockton; Boxing by James P. ... View more info
By: Deford, Frank
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266454
First edition. Sticker on jacket rear. Pages faintly toned. 2005 Hard Cover. 241 pp. 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 neg... View more info
By: Dingle, Derek T.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 1998
Seller ID: 2195461
An exceptional copy. 1998 Hard Cover. As an African-American, Jackie Robinson had to fight for his rights again and again until he broke the Major League's color line. First in the Field explores the early years of this baseball legend, as he paved the way for other African Americans in professional sports, and made a place for himself in American history. View more info
By: Fallon, Michael
Price: $18.00
Publisher: University of Nebraska: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202845
First edition. A fine copy.Fine. 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 s... View more info
By: Fehler, Gene
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Sports Publishing, Inc.: 2000
Seller ID: 2275913
A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. x, 262 pp. Tales from Baseball's Golden Age is a collection of anecdotes about baseball in the 1940s and '50s. The author has interviewed nearly 100 former Major League Baseball players about their experiences in the era that purists consider to be the Golden Age of Baseball. For longtime fans who are enamored of baseball history and tradition, this book should have special appeal. Each entry is prefaced by a concise player profile, lea... View more info
By: Frommer, Harvey
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Berkley: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2187079
First Edition. Remainder mark.Very Good. 2002 Hard Cover. More fun than any other Yankee title this year is Frommer's gem. This is the sort of book you want by your side during the season and all through the long winter, to dip into to astound and amaze your companions. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2268353
Reprint. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 261, [9] pp. Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the children gathered in the streets to play from sunup to sundown. The neighborhood was equally divided among Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans, a... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2003
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2261531
5th printing. An exceptional copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky were all members of the famed 1940's Boston Red Sox. Their legendary careers led the Red Sox to a pennant championship and ensured the men a place in sports history. David Halberstam, the bestselling author of the baseball classic Summer of '49, has followed the members of the 1949 championship Boston Red Sox team for... View more info
By: Hirsch, James S.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275498
First edition. Bottom edge of jacket very lightly bumped, otherwise an excellent copy. 2010 Hard Cover. viii, 628 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. Authorized by Willie Mays and written by a New York Times bestselling author, this is the definitive biography of one of baseball's immortals.Considered to be as monumental -- and enigmatic -- a legend as American sport has ever seen (Sports Illustrated), Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history... View more info
By: Kahn, Roger
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harcourt: 2004
Seller ID: 2203499
Ink name on front endpaper. 2004 Trade Paperback. On the morning of October 2, 1978, the World Champion NewYork Yankees found themselves tied for first place with the Boston Red Sox. That day these rousing ball clubs would meet at Fenway Park. Both had won ninety-nine games. Only one would win one hundred. The Yankees should have been reaching for their golf clubs-they had feuded until they were fourteen games out of first place. Then their fortunes turned, and they capp... View more info
By: Kaplan, Jim
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Algonquin: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202608
First edition. Sticker remnant to rear wrapper. 1987 Soft Cover. Casual fans may concentrate on the duel between batter and pitcher, but for those who know the game of baseball, nothing is more fascinating, or more important, than the art of defense. In Playing the Field Jim Kaplan takes us onto the playing field and into major league dugouts and locker rooms for a definitive look at the great defensive players of the game, past and present. Position by position, and f... View more info
By: Kinsella, W.P.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1985
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2272862
Wrappers lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 1985 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 196 pp. No one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W. P. Kinsella. Lovers of the game and lovers of fine writing will thrill to the range of the eleven stories that make up this new collection. From the magical conspiracy of the title story, to the celestial prediction in The Last Pennant Before Armage... View more info
By: Kinsella, W.P.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274265
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, minor pencil note on rear endpaper verso. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 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 â... View more info
By: Lardner, Ring; Silverman, Jeff
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The Lyons Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205151
First edition. Remainder mark.Near Fine. 2002 Hard Cover. xiv, 492 pp. From his humble beginnings as a journeyman reporter for the South Bend Times in Indiana, to the height of his popularity when his work was syndicated in more than 115 newspapers with a readership of more than eight million, Ring Lardner was the undisputed master of sports journalism and fiction. In his stories, readers found the authentic lives of their heroes and idols, their hopes and fears, and the... View more info
By: Lerner, Mark; Philips, Laura
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Workman Publishing: 1999
Seller ID: 2268474
Tarot cards not included. A fine copy otherwise. 1999 Soft Cover. 324 pp. Tarot cards not included. Are you batting a thousand or in a slump? Has your boss thrown you a curve or caught you off base? Baseball actions have become metaphors for life, and Baseball Tarot applies these metaphors as a means of finding insight into love, work, relationships, dreams, decisions, dilemmas, and virtually any other personal issue. Expertly translated from traditional tarot, it is an ... View more info
By: Maiorana, Sal
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press: 2002
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2187082
Signed by author. First Edition. 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 T... View more info
By: Montville, Leigh
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2270431
First edition. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. 2004 Hard Cover. xiv, 513 pp. He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a fighter pilot; to embrace his fans while tangling wit... View more info
By: O'Nan, Stewart; King, Stephen
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260213
First edition. Faint edge wear to jacket. 2004 Hard Cover. A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f###in' Bucky Dent to the recent off-season battle for Alex Ro... View more info
By: O'Nan, Stewart; King, Stephen
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Scribner: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2268412
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2004 Hard Cover. A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f###in' Bucky Dent to the recent off-season battle for Alex Rodrigue... View more info
By: O'Rourke, Frank
Price: $10.00
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company: 1953
Seller ID: 2204830
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
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Triumph Books: 2005
Seller ID: 2263707
DVD included. Bottom edge of rear board very lightly bumped. 2005 Large Hardcover. xiv, 336 pp. DVD included. In Catfish, Yaz, and Hammerin' Hank, sportswriter Phil Pepe talks to the stars of the day about their fondest memories and their greatest highlights from an era gone by. The spirit of the day is nostalgically captured in Pepe's priceless interviews and through scores of archival photographs. This book proves to be as enjoyable as the era it so thoroughly depicts. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper: 1992
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268373
1st printing. Pages lightly toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Describes how the lives of baseball player Pete Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti collided against the backdrop of modern baseball when Rose was accused of betting on the game. View more info
By: Robinson, Ray
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275592
First printing. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1993 Trade Paperback. x, 236 pp. When all-time pitching great Christy Mathewson died of tuberculosis in 1925 at the age of 45, it touched off a wave of national mourning that remains without precedent for an American athlete. The World Series was underway, and the game the day after Mathewson's death took on the trappings of a state funeral: officials slowly lowered the flag to half-mast, each ballplayer wore a black armband... View more info
