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  • Imperfect: An Improbable Life

    An Improbable Life

    by Tim Brown, Jim Abbott ...
    On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big league ace retraces his remarkable journey.Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott as a boy dreamed of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Imperfect

    An Improbable Life

    by Jim Abbott, Tim Brown ...
    Narrated by Jim Abbott ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big league ace retraces his remarkable journey.Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott as a boy dreamed of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Beyond Belief

    Finding the Strength to Come Back

    by Josh Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Ethan Sawyer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    In this intimate memoir, former Major League Baseball player Josh Hamilton reflects on his battle with addiction and the impact it had on his career—and the spiritual journey that helped him heal.Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Wherever I Wind Up

    My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball

    by Wayne Coffey, R.A. Dickey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues.An English Lit major at the University of Tennessee, Dickey is as articulate and thoughtful as any professional athlete in any sport-and proves it page after page, as he provides fresh and honest insight into baseball and a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    American Sniper

    The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

    by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CLINT EASTWOOD—NOMINATED FOR SIX ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTUREFrom 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him “The Legend”; meanwhile, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Unbroken

    A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    by Laura Hillenbrand ...
    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 56 min

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal**“Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Teammate

    My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

    by David Ross, Don Yaeger ...
    The New York Times –bestselling memoir that's packed with "compelling inside stories" from the former Chicago Cubs catcher and manager ( Chicago Tribune ).In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season, one stood out: the late-career rena... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Smart Baseball

    The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

    by Keith Law ...
    Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means for the future of the sport.For decades, statistics such as batting average, saves recorded, and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Baseball's Good Guys

    The Real Heroes of the Game

    by Marshall J. Cook, Jack Walsh ...
    From Lou Gehrig to Derek Jeter, here are 26 players, including one woman, fans will want to get to know better because of their courage, determination, charity, and sacrifice. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Knucklebook

    Everything You Need to Know About Baseball's Strangest Pitch—the Knuckleball

    by Dave Clark ...
    This little book will teach you all you need to know about the most frustrating yet entertaining pitch in baseball: the knuckleball. It makes batters look foolish when it works; it embarrasses pitchers when it doesn't...or if it works too well. It humiliates catchers and umpires. It confounds spectators. Dave Clark has spent most of a lifetime studying the knuckleball, talking to the major league ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Thirty Baseball Parks and Seventy Home Runs

    A Baseball and Travel Book

    by Ophelia R. Wade ...
    This is a baseball and travel book. A Missouri couple visited all thirty baseball parks, forty-eight continental states, five great lakes, and Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. They were present when Mark McGwire shattered batting records and hit his seventieth home run in 1998. The book is full of baseball trivia. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The 2015 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook

    by Jay Blue ...
    The 2015 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook is the complete guide to the Toronto Blue Jays Minor Leagues. The 2015 edition of the Handbook is bigger than ever and covers everything in the Jays' minor league system from the Buffalo Bisons to the Dominican Summer League. Included are player profiles on over 250 players expected to play in the Jays' minor league system in 2014 as well as team ... Read more

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