Category: Sports: Baseball

The Boys Who Would Be Cubs: A Year in the Heart of Baseball's Minor Leagues

By: Bosco, Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company : (c.1990)

Seller ID: 15542

ISBN-13: 9780688082611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[small gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, otherwise a nice clean copy, minimal wear, very faint foxing on page edges; jacket shows a bit of surface wear, light staining along edges of rear flap]. (B&W photographs) "In January 1988, twenty years after that dream should have died, [the author] found himself in pro ball. A quirk of random destiny had sent him off to join the Peoria Chiefs of the Midwest League during the rubber-chicken circuit days of promoting the summer game -- to be played by kids almost no one's ever heard of -- in the dead of a Midwest winter. Then came spring tr...
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Cracking the Show

By: Boswell, Thomas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday : 1994

Seller ID: 9748

ISBN-13: 9780385472869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[tight clean copy, faint shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows very light surface wear to rear panel]. The fourth collection of the author's writings on baseball, including articles on Pete Rose's travails and the triumphant career of Nolan Ryan.
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Who's Who in the Major Leagues - 14th Edition, 1946

By: Carmichael, John P., ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, B.E. Callahan : 1946

Seller ID: 18567

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

[reading/reference copy only: considerable external wear, soiling to covers, etc.; pages browned and brittle due to cheap pulp paper; page also exhibit numerous tiny chips and tears, mostly at corners and along bottom edges, although no text has been lost]. (B&W photographs) Big league statistics and summaries for the previous (1945) season, along with team-by-team lineups for 1946, with numerous photos of players and brief commentaries about their past accomplishments and future prospects.
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Who's Who in the Major Leagues - Nineteenth Edition, 1951

By: Carmichael, John P., ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, B.E. Callahan : 1951

Seller ID: 18568

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

[reading/reference copy only: considerable external wear, especially along spine, etc.; pages still generally white and supple, with some intermittent spotting/staining]. (B&W photographs) Big league statistics and summaries for the previous (1950) season, along with team-by-team lineups for 1951, with numerous photos of players and brief commentaries about their past accomplishments and future prospects. This edition also includes a 15-page section presenting a "Complete Picture-Record Gallery of the 60 Immortals in Baseball's Hall of Fame," with black-and-white reproductions of por...
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My Life in Baseball: The True Record

By: Cobb, Ty, with Al Stump

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : (c.1961)

Seller ID: 22053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate wear to bottom edges and top corners of covers, one-time owner's name on reverse of ffep]. (B&W photographs) Cobb's alleged autobiography, revealed in the ensuing years to have been largely fraudulent from the get-go. The book itself was published a couple of months after his death, and the following year co-author Stump published an expose-type article in the magazine "True," purporting to tell the "true story" behind this "True Record," in which he described the difficulties of the collaboration, and in the process pretty much cemented Cob...
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The Soaring Twenties: Babe Ruth and the Home-Run Decade

By: Gilbert, Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Franklin Watts : (c.1996)

Seller ID: 16586

ISBN-13: 9780531112793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[brand-new book; tight, clean, flawless]. (The American Game) Series (B&W photographs) One of an excellent series of baseball histories for young readers, this volume "discusses the changes in professional major league baseball during the 1920s, including the pennant race scandal in 1920, the founding of the Negro leagues, Babe Ruth's career, the farm system, and more." ("A Franklin Watts Library Edition," although this is NOT an ex-library book.)
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Pete Rose

By: Gilbert, Thomas W.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York/Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publishers / Newfield Publications : (c.1995)

Seller ID: 20119

ISBN-13: 9780791021712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(glossy pictorial covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean book, minimal handling wear only]. (Baseball Legends) Series (B&W photographs) Biography for young readers of "Charlie Hustle," from glory to disgrace -- simplified but not whitewashed, as the final entry in the Chronology of his career reads: "1990: Convicted of tax evasion and serves five months in prison; remains ineligible for the Hall of Fame due to settlement with commissioner's office."
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The Dreamlife of Johnny Baseball

By: Grossinger, Richard, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley CA, North Atlantic Books : (c.1987)

Seller ID: 2439

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[mild rubbing to covers, slight soiling of fore-edge]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Anthology of poetry and imaginative stories. Contributors include W.P. Kinsella, Thom Ross, Bobby Byrd.
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Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poems

By: Johnson, Don, ed.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Urbana/Chicago, University of Illinois Press : (c.1991)

Seller ID: 14614

ISBN-13: 9780252018107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[beautiful, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or jacket; jacket a teensy bit faded at spine]. "Collected here are baseball poems written over the past four decades by fifty-seven contemporary poets, including Richard Eberhart, Donald Hall, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Hugo, and Gail Mazur. [Also Gregory Corso and John Updike.] Few of them venerate legendary baseball players. Instead, they celebrate all the wonderful variations of the game itself: the minor leagues, college ball, high school, American Legion, Babe Ruth and Little League, pickup games in sandlots and pas...
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Jewish Baseball Stars

By: Ribalow, Harold U., and Meir Z. Ribalow

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books : (c.1984)

Seller ID: 15438

ISBN-13: 9780882548982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, with only light wear at spine ends; jacket has a few itsy-bitsy tears, and a couple of almost-microscopic chips]. (B&W photographs) A brief historical look at Jewish athletes and their relationship to professional baseball, followed by chapters devoted to the stories of the following individual players: Johnny Kling, Erskine Mayer, Andy Cohen, Hank Greenberg, "Buddy" Myer, Harry Danning, Morrie Arnovich, Goody Rosen, Sid Gordon, "Dolly" Stark, Saul Rogovin, Al Rosen, Al Schacht, Moe Berg, Larry Sherry, Sandy Koufax, Ken Holtzman, and Steve Stone.
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Category: Sports: Baseball