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Basic Books The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New
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HarperCollins Focus Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous,
Book SynopsisA wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it.Join professional baseball broadcaster Tim Hagerty for a journey through the zaniest Minor League stories in Tales from the Dugout. Given its long history, it is no surprise that the game has encountered some bizarre things over the years. This humorous and outlandish collection of stories is sourced from newspaper archives and the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, New York, and includes a foreword by former MLB All-Star Billy Butler. Whether you're a baseball fanatic or just a fan of sports history, this book captures the spirit of the game.This compendium of minor league shenanigans includes: HOLE IN ONE: In 1942, a Milwaukee Brewers batter hit a low line drive that bounced down the right field line. He rounded the bases while confused Louisville Colonels fielders searched for the ball. They eventually found it inside a gopher hole. MONKEYING AROUND: A chimp's escape turned a Southern Association game into pandemonium on July 17, 1909. "Henry the Chimpanzee," the New Orleans Pelicans' official mascot, busted from his cage and chased players around the field. The chimp then went after fans, who ran from him screaming. The game was delayed a few minutes while Henry was restrained. HEADLESS CRUSHER: A police department in Ohio got a call about a missing head. The Lake Erie Crushers' mascot's head was stolen in 2011, forcing the mascot to miss a few home games. After learning through media reports that police were investigating, the thief returned the head by inconspicuously placing it under the ballpark's tarp. Trade Review'[A] relentlessly entertaining collection of vignettes of strange and sometimes surprising moments in the minors.' * -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel *'A collection of memorable stories . . . the minors are fertile ground for good tales.' * -Boston Globe *'A great, easy to digest read. It's a lot of fun.' * -Matt Vasgersian, MLB Network *'Go get this book!' * -Bill Ripken, 12-year major league player and current MLB Network analyst *'I devoured Tim's book over the course of a couple of days. It's fantastic... I love the illustrations. For anyone out there who has a child in their life who loves baseball, this is a book for all ages.' * -Rob Neyer, former ESPN and Fox Sports baseball writer and the author of the CASEY Award winning book Powerball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game *'I love the format. It's bite-sized stories with lots of cool cartoon drawings. It would make a great gift for a baseball lover or anyone who enjoys humor.' * -Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio host *'I love this book. It's fantastic because of the short length of the stories and how much fun they all are.' * -Matt Pauley, KMOX Radio *'It's like a minor-league Weird and Wild column. Full of amazing and hilarious tidbits. Great stuff from Tim Hagerty!' * -Jayson Stark *'The ideal bedside reading book for any good baseball fan. It is a phenomenally researched compendium of all sorts of amazing anecdotes tumbling out of minor league ball dating from the 1880s to the current day.' * -Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe and ESPN's Around the Horn *'Tim Hagerty's collection of anecdotes is a must-read for fans of Minor League Baseball.' * -Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune *'We received six baseball books in July and the absolute favorite was Tales from the Dugout: 1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball. Hundreds of stories we wish we had on Baseball Almanac. Great work.' * -Baseball Almanac *'Filled with wonderful stories that could only come from the world of Minor League Baseball. It's a joy!' * -Jesse Agler, San Diego Padres broadcaster *
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Simon & Schuster The Baseball 100
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£22.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Never Had It Made
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Summer of 49
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Last Innocents
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£18.04
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Big Fella
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£18.04
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rickey
Book Synopsis“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” - Sports IllustratedFrom the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he’s scored more runs than any player ever. “If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you’d have two Hall of Famers,” the baseball historian Bill James once said.But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson’s is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Inside The Empire
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Flatiron Books Our Team
Book SynopsisThe riveting story of four menLarry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paigewhose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.In July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby, as the second Black player in the majors, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most meaningful seasons in baseball history.In intimate, absorbing detail, Luke Epplin''s Our Team traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at ex
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Simon & Schuster The Way of Baseball Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
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£16.19
Grand Central Publishing Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher
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PublicAffairs Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the
Book SynopsisA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst a Red Scare conspiracy. Instead of getting their homes back, the remaining residents saw the city sell their land to Walter O’Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now LA would be getting a different sort of utopian fantasy—a glittering, ultramodern stadium. But before Dodger Stadium could be built, the city would have to face down the neighborhood’s families—including one, the Aréchigas, who refused to yield their home. The ensuing confrontation captivated the nation—and the divisive outcome still reverberates through Los Angeles today.
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PublicAffairs The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch
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