Black and Blue : Sandy Koufax, the Robinson Boys, and the World Series That Stunned America

Tom Adelman
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The Long Ball : The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played

Tom Adelman
Paperback - $24.95

- THE LONG BALL appeared on the "Boston Globe and "Cincinnati Enquirer bestseller lists.- With unforgettable portraits of some of baseball's most colorful characters, THE LONG BALL offers fans a riveting look at the sport's last great days, before fr ...

Chicago Cubs : Tinker to Evers to Chance

Art Ahrens
Paperback - $32.95

It has been a long time. Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chancethat trio of bear cubs immortalized in poem and enshrined as a unit in Cooperstownformed the core of a ball club that brought Chicago baseball fans back-to-back World Series champions ...

West Virginia Baseball : A History, 1865-2000

William E. Akin
Paperback - $65.95

A game in 1866 hosted by the Hunkidori Base Ball Club in Wheeling is considered the first ?match game of Base Ball.? Here, the author traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in West Virginia. Baseball below the minor league ...

Breaking the Slump : Baseball in the Depression Era

Charles C. Alexander
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In the 1930s, despite the ravages of the Great Depression, professional baseball remained the king of American sports in terms of both spectators and participants. In "Breaking the Slump," the first history of baseball during the Great Depression, Al ...

More Than Merkle : A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History

David W. Anderson
Paperback - $29.95

"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 ...

Five Seasons : A Baseball Companion

Roger Angell
Paperback - $36.95

"Five Seasons" covers the baseball seasons from 1972 through 1976, described as the "most significant half decade in the history of the game." The era was notable for the remarkable individual feats of Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, and Nolan Ryan, among oth ...

My Baseball Career : Cap Anson's Story (the Greatest Hitter & National League Player-Manager of the 19th Century)

Adrian C. Anson
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Shea Stadium

Jason D. Antos
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Rising among the factories and body shops off Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, Shea Stadium became the home of the New York Mets in 1964. Named after William A. Shea, the New York attorney responsible for bringing baseball back to the Big Apple after the ...

Slide, Kelly, Slide : The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly

Martin Appel
Paperback - $41.95

Mike King Kelly was a hard-living, hard-drinking son of a Civil War veteran whose skills at baseball and infectious charm turned him into the game's first hero, and a symbol of what it meant to be a clebrity in America in the 1880s and 1890s. A Hall ...