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  • Comeback Season

    My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players

    by Cam Perron ...
    The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron—a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston—and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over. Featuring the players’ fascinating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Sports Byline: Cam Perron

    by Ron Barr ...
    Narrated by Ron Barr, Cam Perron ...
    Series series Sports Byline Classics

    Unabridged

    10 min

    In this Sports Byline interview, Ron Barr talks to Cam Perron, who developed an interest in the Negro League baseball players when he was just 12 years old. Perron has since been chronicling his research on the players and the league, and was featured on HBO’s Real Sports.Perron shares stories from the Negro League players he’s become close with in his research and gives insight into this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Comeback Season

    My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players

    by Cam Perron ...
    Narrated by Aden Hakimi, Robin Eller, Lamarr Gulley, Leon Nixon, David Sadzin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron—a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston—and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over. Featuring the players’ fascinating ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Forgotten League: A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard…they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Back Roads to March

    The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season

    by John Feinstein ...
    **#1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops."Uplifting...[A] heartfelt missive to college basketball." —The Wall Street Journal**John Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Willie O'Ree

    The story of the first black player in the NHL

    by Nicole Mortillaro ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Willie O'Ree quietly made NHL history at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958, when he became the first black player to take to the ice. In the dressing room before the game, his Boston Bruins teammates told him not to worry. If any one of the Montreal players said anything to him, they'd have his back.There was a round of applause when O'Ree stepped onto the ice, and newspapers ran the story. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Raise a Fist, Take a Knee

    Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports

    by John Feinstein ...
    Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for.Commentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of leagues like the NFL and MLB as sterling examples of a post-racial America. Yet decades after Tommie Smith and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Last Best League (10th anniversary edition)

    One Summer, One Season, One Dream

    by Jim Collins ...
    Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A's, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Goon

    Memoir of a Minor League Hockey Enforcer, 2d ed.

    by Adam Frattasio, Doug Smith ...
    Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his only marketable job skill--amateur boxing--and followed an unlikely career path to become a hockey enforcer, a.k.a. "goon." Entrusted with aggressively protecting his teammates from tough guys on the opposing team, he punched, elbowed and cross-checked his way up the ranks of minor league ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Gabby

    by Bruce Boudreau; Tim Leone ...
    Bruce Boudreau is living a hockey Cinderella story. After more than three decades in the minor leagues as a player and coach, he was promoted to head coach of the Washington Capitals in 2007. Boudreau revived the Caps, written off as dead, to a division championship and received the Jack Adams award as the National Hockey LeagueÆs Coach of the Year in June 2008.His story is an entertaining odyssey ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell

    Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues

    by Lonnie Wheeler ...
    The first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of FamerJames “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a legend in black baseball, a lightning fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’s speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark.In The Bona Fide Legend of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Heads of State

    Pennsylvania's Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era

    by Mark Hostutler ...
    The history of basketball spans more than a century, from its humble origin as a simple diversion during the harsh winters in America to today's perennial, rim-rattling show of international renown. Throughout the last 60 years, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the sports evolution, supplying the world with a steady stream of stars, from Wilt Chamberlain to Kobe Bryant, who have proven to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD