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  • The Negro Leagues' 1931 Homestead Grays

    The Color of Greatness

    Edited by Thomas Kern, Bill Nowlin ...
    The 1931 edition of the Homestead Grays might be the greatest collection of talent on one team in baseball history. They not only retained all-time greats like Oscar Charleston, Josh Gibson, and Smokey Joe Williams from the previous year, but brought in future Hall of Famers Jud Wilson to play third base and Willie Foster to augment the pitching staff. They even briefly added Satchel Paige late in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wild Horse

    by Thomas Kern ...
    A look into absurbist humor, poetry, and fictional situations. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sally Chronicles

    by Thomas Kern ...
    The Sally Chronicles, a Gathering of Lies is a book of four short stories that include postapocalyptic love, supernatural friendship, a serial killer, and the fear of cats."Tigers of Kurleigh" is a light horror and suspense story that deals with Ray, his fear of cats and his will to overcome."The Last Roadside Attraction" is a ghostly suspense thriller. Jeanie deals of the loss of her best friend ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Setbacks to Success

    The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes

    Edited by Vince Guerrieri, Thomas Kern, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series Champions of Black Baseball
    This book provides a detailed account of the 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes with biographies of the players and the team officials who led the team to its World Series triumph. Also included is a complete season timeline, articles about some standout games. the story of League Park and Cleveland Stadium (where the Buckeyes played), and an appreciation of the cultural context of the time.Until the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants

    Edited by Frederick Bush, Thomas Kern, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series Champions of Black Baseball
    This book on the 1939 Negro National League II champion Baltimore Elite Giants is part of a series of SABR books about the great Negro League teams of the first half of the twentieth century.The Giants were first formed in Nashville in 1921, but moved around from location to location over the years - Columbus and Washington, DC, became way stations for team founder Tom Wilson as he moved the team ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • Oscar Charleston

    The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

    by Jeremy Beer ...
    2020 SABR Seymour Medal2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearBuck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of Black America’s most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Bury My Heart at Cooperstown

    Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball

    by Frank Russo, Gene Racz ...
    An entertaining look at how a number of baseball players have left fthe game all too soon, this book covers murders, suicides, accidents and bizarre mishaps, deaths by alcoholism, and even deaths by sexually transmitted diseases. The ever amusing and interesting stories include James Phelps, who made a running catch, was bitten by a poisonous snake, finished the game, then promptly died; Harold B. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Penn State Football

    The Complete Illustrated History

    by Ken Rappoport, Barry Wilner ...
    From an AP sports writer and author, a history of Pennsylvania State University's Nittany Lions, with personal stories from coaches and players.In Tales from Penn State Football, Ken Rappoport puts you on the fifty-yard line and sometimes gets you a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room. From the first team in the 1880s to the celebrated Joe Paterno teams of the 20th century, Penn State ... 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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  • Beauty at Short

    Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball's First Century

    by Tom Alesia ...
    The most unlikely Hall of FamerDave Bancroft should not be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He emerged from his Iowa hometown as an undersized shortstop without batting skills. Signed by one of the 300-plus minor league teams at age 17 in 1909, he lasted only three weeks before being cut, then joined another team and was released again. His rise to become enshrined in Cooperstown as one of baseball's ... Read more

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