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“josh leventhal”

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  • History of Baseball in 100 Objects

    by Josh Leventhal ...
    The only book of its kind to tell the history of baseball, from its inception to the present day, through 100 key objects that represent the major milestones, evolutionary events, and larger-than-life personalities that make up the gameA History of Baseball in 100 Objects is a visual and historical record of the game as told through essential documents, letters, photographs, equipment, memorabilia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Natchez Burning

    A Novel

    by Greg Iles ...
    Series Book 4 - Penn Cage
    Don’t miss the latest Natchez Burning novel, SOUTHERN MANFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing legal thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best Team Money Can Buy

    The Los Angeles Dodgers' Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse

    by Molly Knight ...
    **With a new Afterword covering the 2015 season.The bestselling, inside-the-clubhouse story of two tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were re-made from top to bottom, becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball. “It’s as if Molly Knight ushers you behind the closed clubhouse doors.” (Buster Olney, ESPN)**In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Game

    Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

    by Jon Pessah ...
    The incredible inside story of power, money, and some of the most important moments in the history of baseball.In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders

    A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History

    by Rob Neyer ...
    BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS.BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME.Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny, even. A pitcher slips on the mound and his pitch sails over the backstop. An infielder camps under a pop-up...and the ball lands ten feet away. An outfielder tosses a souvenir to a fan...but that was just the second out, and runners are circling the ... Read more

    $13.99 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

    $11.99 USD

  • American Icon

    by Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O'Keeffe, Christian Red ...
    It was an epic downfall. In twenty-four seasons pitcher Roger Clemens put together one of the greatest careers baseball has ever seen. Seven Cy Young Awards, two World Series championships, and 354 victories made him a lock for the Hall of Fame. But on December 13, 2007, the Mitchell Report laid waste to all that. Accusations that Clemens relied on steroids and human growth hormone provided and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers

    by Bill James ...
    The man Newsweek once called "the guru of baseball" offers profiles of top managers, sidebars, statistics, and snapshots of each decade.Widely considered to be one of the greatest minds in the history of the game, Bill James has changed the way we think about the sport of baseball. In this chronicle of field generals, strategists, and occasional cannon fodder, James writes with piercing insight ... Read more

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  • Catcher

    How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero

    by Peter Morris ...
    Today the baseball catcher is a familiar but uninspiring figure. Decked out in the so-called tools of ignorance, he stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance behind the batter. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Lou Gehrig: Appreciation

    by Fritz Knapp ...
    Series series Sports Virtues
    As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Lou Gehrig: Appreciation discusses the struggles and triumphs of Lou Gehrig'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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Moment in Time

    An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace

    by Ralph Branca ...
    A first-hand account of the golden era of baseball from Jackie Robinson’s friend, former teammate and featured player in the 2013 biopic "42."Ralph Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World,” the historic home run that capped an incredible comeback and won the pennant for the New York Giants in 1951. Branca was on the losing end of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Underdogs

    How Two Indian Athletes Beat the Million Dollar Arm and Became Professional Baseball Players

    by Fergus Mason ...
    Baseball players come from Cuba, Korea, Japan...India? India is the least likely place anyone would expect a professional baseball player to come from, but one man saw potential, and gave two men a chance to prove themselves.After a strong display of athletics on the Indian television show Million Dollar Arm, two pitchers (Rinku Singh and Dinsesh Patel) were invited to America by the Pittsburg ... Read more

    $2.99 USD