Category: Sports

Pro Football From the Inside [SIGNED]

By: Bass, Tom

Price: $50.00

Publisher: (n.p.), In Pro : (c.1974)

Seller ID: 20617

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[moderate edgewear to covers, scuffing to rear cover next to spine]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the inside front cover: "For Mort / I sincerely hope / the poems bring / some joy and / understanding of / our great game of / football, / Tom Bass." Yep, despite the locker-room real dope suggested by the book's title -- not to mention the full-rage aggression displayed by the cover photo of the author -- this is in fact a slim volume of poetry, in what one might call the Athletic Brutalist School. (I just made that up.) Sample stanza: "There can be no doubt / who...
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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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The Man in the Crowd: Confessions of a Sports Addict [SIGNED]

By: Cohen, Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1981)

Seller ID: 22593

ISBN-13: 9780394508757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[book itself is tight and clean, with no discernible wear; jacket also quite nice, with just a couple of tiny external nicks (one at top of spine, the other at top right corner of front panel), and several vertical creases in the rear flap]. INSCRIBED in 2004 "to _______ & _____ -- / All the best, / Love" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. An acknowledged classic of sports literature, this "wonderfully evocative memoir of [the author's] lifelong fascination with the world of sports [is] much more than that. It is also a nostalgic remembrance of decades past, and the way life ...
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Women in Sports: Horseback Riding

By: Golden, Flora

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harvey House : (c.1978)

Seller ID: 13241

ISBN-13: 9780817858377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(pictorial hard covers; no dust jacket) [NOT ex-library: nice, clean copy, some light soling to covers, faint sticker shadow on ffep]. (B&W photographs) Biographical sketches of five prominent horsewomen -- Denise Boudrot, Michele McEvoy, Hilda Gurney, Sue Sally Jones and Helen Crabtree.
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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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Golden Boy

By: Hornung, Paul, as told to William F. Reed

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : (c.2004)

Seller ID: 14965

ISBN-13: 9780743266192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, a couple of extremely light dents in top edges of covers; jacket shows only some very minor wrinkling at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the Heisman Trophy-winning running back who went on to become an NFL star for the Green Bay Packers, under legendary coach Vince Lombardi. However, his off-the-field partying, girl-chasing and gambling eventually caught up with him, and at the height of his career he was caught up in a gambling scandal and suspended from the NFL for a year. (This was a very big deal, I seem to remember -- I was ten ye...
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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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The Bullfight; a photograph narrative with text by Norman Mailer [SIGNED]

By: Mailer, Norman

Price: $200.00

Publisher: [New York], CBS Records : (c.1967)

Seller ID: 23488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight clean copy, just a touch of wear at top of spine; jacket lightly soiled on rear panel, top and bottom edges of both flaps look to have been slightly insect-nibbled, but no visible external evidence of this]. (The CBS Legacy Collection) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the second front endpaper: "To Nick / Cordially / Norman Mailer / Jan. '88." Per the jacket blurb, this was "the most unusual book to be published about the bullfight. It is, through the use of a single photograph on each page, arranged in the natural order of one complete ...
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Almost a Famous Person

By: Michelson, Herb

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : (c.1980)

Seller ID: 8563

ISBN-13: 9780151050697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear; jacket mildly rubbed, very short corner creases in front flap]. Tragic life story of Bob Presley, a Detroit ghetto kid whose life went astray when he failed to make the NBA after a successful high school and college basketball career. "Basketball offers young blacks the dream of success: money and fame. Presley never realized these dreams; all he knew was the harsh reality of exploitation by those who control the game-- the coaches, the club owners, the media. [This book] is an indictment of this dream, and of the tremendous emphasis placed on baske...
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Pigeons, Bloody Noses and Little Skinny Kids: A Story of Wolverine Basketball

By: Mortimer, Jeff

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dexter MI, Thomson-Shore Publishers : (c.1978)

Seller ID: 4715

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy; jacket a tiny bit rubbed, traces of edgewear here and there]. (B&W photographs) The author "has carefully probed the long history of Wolverine basketball to bring to life in these pages the innovative and courageous coaches, the sharp-shooting, slick-passing, board-crashing players, and the dynamic, come-from-behind teams that brought national prominence to Wolverine basketball--decades ago as well as just yesterday." (That would, of course,be the University of Michigan Wolverines--but if I gotta tell you that, you probably aren't interested in this book!)
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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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I Remember Ben Hogan: Personal Recollections and Revelations of Golf's Most Fascinating Legend from the People Who Knew Him Best

By: Towle, Mike

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nashville TN, Cumberland House : (c.2000)

Seller ID: 15440

ISBN-13: 9781581820782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful copy, essentially brand-new with just a very slight bump to the base of the spine; NO remainder or other marks]. "In [this book], dozens of Hogan's confidants, fellow golf pros, business associates, and acquaintances candidly reveal their memories of and insights into 'the Hawk.' Included are more than a hundred original stories and observations offered especially for this book."
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Category: Sports