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  • The Baseball Mysteries

    Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

    by Jerry Butters, Jim Henle ...
    Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
    The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Proof and the Pudding

    What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common

    by Jim Henle ...
    Tantalizing math puzzles and cooking recipes that show how mathematical thinking is like the culinary artsTie on your apron and step into Jim Henle's kitchen as he demonstrates how two equally savory pursuits—cooking and mathematics—have more in common than you realize. A tasty dish for gourmets of popular math, The Proof and the Pudding offers a witty and flavorful blend of mathematical treats ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Slavery and the University

    Histories and Legacies

    by Ruth J. Simmons, Craig Steven Wilder, Jennifer Bridges Oast, Kabria Baumgartner, J. Brent Morris, Sven Beckert, Balraj Gill, Jim Henle, Katherine Stevens, Ellen Griffith Spears, James C. Hall, Mark Auslander, Craig B. Hollander, Martha A. Sandweiss, Patrick Jamieson, A. James Fuller, Diane Windham Shaw, Ywone Edwards-Ingram, R. Owen Williams, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, William B. Hart ...
    Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • Change Up

    How to Make the Great Game of Baseball Even Better

    by Buck Martinez, Dan Robson ...
    In the spirit of Moneyball, the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays offers cutting insights on baseballBuck Martinez has been in and around professional baseball for nearly fifty years as a player, manager and broadcaster. Currently the play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays, Martinez has witnessed enormous change in the game he loves, as it has morphed from a grassroots pastime to big ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

    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 Baseball 100

    by Joe Posnanski ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year“An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Jo... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Grandest Stage

    A History of the World Series

    by Tyler Kepner ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic.The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends

    The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else

    by Rob Neyer ...
    The latest and greatest in ESPN.com baseball guru Rob Neyer'sBig Book series, Legends is a highly entertaining guide to baseball fables thathave been handed down through generations.The well-told baseball story has long been a staple for baseball fans. In Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, Neyer breathes new life into both classic and obscure stories throughout twentieth-century baseball -- ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Before the Machine

    The Story of the 1961 Pennant-Winning Reds

    by Mark J. Schmetzer ...
    The Big Red Machine dominated major league baseball in the 1970s, but the Cincinnati franchise began its climb to that pinnacle in 1961, when an unlikely collection of cast-offs and wannabes stunned the baseball world by winning the National League pennant. Led by revered manager Fred Hutchinson, the team featured rising stars like Frank Robinson, Jim O'Toole, and Vada Pinson, fading stars like ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Tales from the Detroit Tigers Dugout

    A Collection of the Greatest Tigers Stories Ever Told

    by Jack Ebling ...
    Series series Tales from the Team
    The Detroit Tigers Old English “D” is one of the most recognized symbols in sports. Now fans of this indomitable franchise can relive the passion and excitement that has come to define the Tigers in this newly updated edition of Tales from the Detroit Tigers Dugout. Veteran sportswriter Jack Ebling brings to life four World Championships, five other World Series appearances, and so much more. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All about Football

    by George Sullivan ...
    Explains the game of football, presenting its history and profiles of leading players. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • One Season in the Sun

    by Joe Schuster ...
    Series series Gemma Open Door
    These are the tales of one-season wonders. The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, ... Read more

    $4.95 USD