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“jim salisbury”

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  • Rotation

    A Season with the Phillies and the Greatest Pitching Staff Ever Assembled

    by Jim Salisbury, Todd Zolecki ...
    Not since 1957 has one major league team's pitching staff boasted three pitchers (Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt) in the Top Ten in career winning-percentage. Plus, the Philadelphia Phillies' 2011 rotation also happens to include Cole Hamels -- the 2008 NLCS and World Series MVP -- and an alternating fifth starter.This awe-inducing rotation has been the talk of baseball since coming ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Llew Tu Mewn, Y / Lion Inside, The

    by Rachel Bright, Jim Field ...
    Translated by Eurig Salisbury ...
    This is a feel good rhyming story book. The main character is a little mouse, who is trying his best to make himself heard amongst all the large animals! At the end of his journey he finds his voice and discovers that all animals, be they large or small, have an important role to play in life. Reprint. First Published in 2018. ... Read more

    $8.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Wherever I Wind Up

    My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball

    by R.A. Dickey, Wayne Coffey ...
    The perfect gift for baseball fans, now with a new epilogue by author R.A. Dickey, winner of the 2012 Cy Young award."An astounding memoir—haunting and touching, courageous and wise."—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author, Emmy award-winning journalist, ESPNIn 1996, R.A. Dickey was the Texas Rangers’ much-heralded No. 1 draft choice. Then, a routine physical revealed that his right elbow was missing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Yankee Years

    by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci ...
    The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasons—with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Arm

    Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

    by Jeff Passan ...
    "The best baseball book of the year . . . a close, exceptionally well-written look into the game's epidemic of ruptured elbow ligaments." — The Boston GlobeThe import of baseball pitchers is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big-league players vulnerable and the coming ... Read more

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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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • A Nice Little Place on the North Side

    A History of Triumph, Mostly Defeat, and Incurable Hope at Wrigley Field

    by George Will ...
    **Now with bonus material on the Chicago Cubs' World Series win, the New York Times-bestselling history of America's most beloved baseball stadium, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs’ century-long search for World Series gloryIn A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Anabolic Steroids and the Athlete, 2d ed.

    by William N. Taylor, M.D. ...
    The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic steroids is followed by chapters on such topics as anabolic steroid compounds, the anabolic-to ... Read more

    $21.39 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

  • So You Think You Know Baseball?: A Fan's Guide to the Official Rules

    A Fan's Guide to the Official Rules

    by Peter E. Meltzer ...
    Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules.Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its ... Read more

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  • The Last Commissioner

    A Baseball Valentine

    by Fay Vincent ...
    On a beautiful July morning in 1991, three men gathered in a hotel suite for an informal breakfast and conversation. The discussion ranged widely over events and characters of the past, famous names and fabled accomplishments flowing along with the coffee and juice. Two of them, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, were the ultimate symbols of athletic glory for generations of American men. The third ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Hank Aaron: Fearlessness

    by Fritz Knapp ...
    Series series Sports Virtues
    As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Hank Aaron: Fearlessness discusses the struggles and triumphs of Pele's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding ... Read more

    $1.99 USD