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  • Metropolitan Stadium

    Memorable Games at Minnesota's Diamond on the Prairie

    by Bill Nowlin, Carl Riechers ...
    Series series Home Diamonds
    Metropolitan Stadium was right on time. It wasn't built too early, using a cantilever construction that eliminated the need for posts between decks. It wasn't built too late, staying ahead of the much-maligned "cookie cutter" multi-purpose stadiums of the 1960s.The Met followed the trend of other post-war stadiums, sprouting in open areas that were well-served by highways and surrounded by plenty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The First Negro League Champion

    The 1920 Chicago American Giants

    Edited by Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin, Carl Riechers ...
    On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball announced that seven Negro Leagues, from various seasons spanning the years 1920 to 1948, were being recognized as major leagues and that all statistics from those leagues and seasons would henceforth be considered part of the major-league record books. The earliest league to be included is the first iteration of the Negro National League (NNL), founded ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One-Hit Wonders

    Edited by Bill Nowlin, Len Levin, Carl Riechers ...
    Series series Baseball Lives
    Over the years, millions have dreamed of playing major-league baseball, but only around 20,000 players have put on a big-league uniform. Some had lengthy careers, some much briefer-including a surprising number who had just one base hit: close to 1,400 of them. Some of these "one-hit wonders" were pitchers, and not expected to hit-though right-hander Fred Gladding had 68 plate appearances with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Bill James ...
    When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium.Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 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 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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  • Tales from the Deadball Era

    Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History

    by Mark S. Halfon ...
    The Deadball Era (1901û1920) is a baseball fanÆs dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity and hostility blended then to create an air of excitement, anticipation, and concern for all who entered the confines of a major league ballpark. Cheating for the sake of victory earned respect, corrupt ballplayers fixed games with impunity, and violence plagued the sport. Spectators ... Read more

    $26.95 USD

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  • A Fire to Win

    The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

    by John Lombardo ...
    A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Woody Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.Woody Hayes is one of the greatest football coaches in history—and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher would tout the ideals of democracy yet run his football empire as an absolute monarchy. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Unbeatable

    How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

    by Phillip Hoose ...
    Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their ... Read more

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  • Baseball's Leading Lady

    Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues

    by Andrea Williams ...
    For fans of Hidden Figures and Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated, Andrea Williams's Baseball's Leading Lady is the powerful true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Rickwood Field

    A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark

    by Allen Barra ...
    The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field becomes the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark.While America has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, Rickwood Field, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, has remained fixed in time. Best-selling baseball writer Allen Barra journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Big Orange Country

    The Most Spectacular Sights and Sounds of Tennessee Football

    by Athlon Sports ...
    True Volunteer fans can tell you where they were when championships were won, heartbreakers were lost, records were broken, and heroes were made. Big Orange Country is a gift book for true University of Tennessee fans, celebrating the history, the pageantry, and the drama of Tennessee Football in both print and on an audio CD that Volunteer fans will listen to over and over.Big Orange Country is a ... Read more

    $6.49 USD