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Sports Publishing LLC Aaron Judge: The Incredible Story of the New York
Book SynopsisAt 6-foot-7 and 285 pounds, Aaron Judge emerged as the biggest story in baseball in 2017 with his monstrous home runs and record-breaking ability. A three-sport athlete in high school and a Division I ballplayer at Fresno State, the Californian was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round in 2013 and made it to the majors by August 2016. Homering in his first major league at-bat and starting in right field straight out of spring training in 2017, he gave Yankees fans hope for the future, along with "Baby Bombers" teammates such as Gary Sanchez.After a rough start in which he batted below .200 and struck out in over 40 percent of his plate appearances after joining the Yankees, Judge turned things around and helped get his team off to a fast start in 2017 with 10 homers in April alone, tying the rookie record for the month. He then broke the legendary Joe DiMaggio's team record for most round trippers by the All-Star break with 30, including one that measured at 495 feet. His mounting popularity enabled him to receive more All-Star votes than any American League player and to the creation of the "Judge's Chambers" section located in the right-field stands of Yankee Stadium. Judge's momentum next led to him winning the 2017 Home Run Derby where he smashed a total of 47, four of which traveled more than 500 feet. It's no wonder that baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has said that Judge is a player "who can become the face of the game." In Aaron Judge: The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees' Home Run-Hitting Phenom, David Fischer brings the exciting story of the Yankees' newest superstar to life.
£15.99
Sports Publishing LLC Shohei Ohtani: The Amazing Story of Baseball's
Book SynopsisWith highlights Shohei Ohtani’s best games on the mound and at bat for the Los Angeles Angels from each month of his rookie season—as well as anecdotes of his life in America—this is one book that every fan of Major League Baseball will want--newly updated to include MVP and World Baseball Classic coverage! Rarely does anyone use the term “two-way” in regard to a baseball player. Yet the Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, at the young age of twenty-three, has become the epitome of the term, drawing comparisons to Babe Ruth by baseball pundits everywhere. After being drafted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League with the number-one pick in 2012, the eighteen-year-old Ohtani struggled with the bat during his rookie season. However, he had a breakout year in 2014, posting a 2.61 ERA in 24 starts and 179 strikeouts (as well as 10 home runs). By 2017, all thirty Major League Baseball teams had heard about the Japanese phenom and expressed interest in signing him. Ultimately, the Angels offered him the opportunity to compete as a two-way player and the chance to accomplish his professional goals. After a quiet spring training, Ohtani broke out in the first two weeks of the 2018 regular season, becoming just the 14th pitcher in major-league history to strike out 12 batters in one of his first two starts. He also homered in three consecutive games during that stretch. Shohei Ohtani: The Amazing Story of Baseball’s Two-Way Japanese Superstar tells the story of the player from rural Japan who became a two-way star not seen in America since Babe Ruth.
£16.99
Sports Publishing LLC Tales from the Atlanta Braves Dugout: A
Book SynopsisThe newest addition to the Tales from the Team series, Tales from the Atlanta Braves Dugout includes stories on the greatest players and coaches to don the Braves uniform. Author Cory McCartney includes stories about Hank Aaron, Dale Murphy, Phil Niekro, Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Bobby Cox, and so many others.Recall the harrowing experience of Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium catching fire on July 21, 1993, overshadowing the debut of Fred McGriff, and read all about Sid Bream's slide and the worst-to-first season of 1991. From the run of 14 consecutive division titles and the 1995 World Series title, to Kent Mercker's 1994 no-hitter; from the arrival of the Baby Braves in Brian McCann, Jeff Francoeur, and others, to the 2014 Hall of Fame induction of Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and Bobby Cox, the on and off the field stories are all here.This is the perfect addition to a Braves fan’s shelf!Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
£21.59
SPORTS PUB INC Remembering TornDown Ballparks Over a Cold Beer
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£19.99
Lerner Publishing Group Inside the New York Yankees
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£9.49
Baseball Prospectus Baseball Prospectus 2019
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£39.96
Baseball Prospectus Baseball Prospectus Futures Guide 2019
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£18.00
Baseball Prospectus Baseball Prospectus Futures Guide 2020
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£19.79
Baseball Prospectus Baseball Prospectus 2019
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£999.99
Baseball America Baseball America 2021 Almanac
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£18.36
Baseball America Baseball America 2021 Prospect Handbook
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£26.21
Baseball America Baseball America 2022 Directory: Who's Who in
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£999.99
Baseball America Baseball America 2022 Almanac
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£20.76
Baseball America Baseball America 2022 Prospect Handbook
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£26.21
ECW Press,Canada Gibby: Tales of a Baseball Lifer
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£21.71
Mosaic Press Immaculate: A History of Perfect Innings in
Book SynopsisGetting 3 batters out in order on nine pitches is one of the most remarkable feats in baseball. Since the late 1800s, only 71 pitchers have been able to do it. Yet, unlike other rare achievements in baseball, such as pitching a perfect game, the "immaculate inning" does not capture the same attention or consideration. In a game that is as unpredictable as baseball, perfection, when it occurs, should be cause for both reflection and celebration. Cairney provides a short history of perfect innings through the stories of the pitchers who pitched them. Beginning with an brief overview of the numbers, the remaining chapters, one for each immaculate inning on record in major baseball, provides insight into the men, their careers and details of the inning itself, from the first recorded perfect inning in 1889 to the most recent string of innings last MLB season in 2014. The names include pitching greats such as Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson, but also many lesser known, if not colourful, pitchers like "Sloppy" Thurston and Bill Wilson. The teams include famous franchises like the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees, but also clubs now defunct like the Boston Beaneaters and the Montreal Expos. Using immaculate innings as benchmarks, the book provides an engaging and entertaining journey through the history of professional baseball that will delight both the serious student of the game, as well as the fan who enjoys reading about the game.
£14.24
Taylor Trade Publishing Upon Further Review: Controversy in Sports
Book SynopsisOfficiating is a silent profession. For a group that's right most of the time, officials take a beating. This book takes the reader through the history of officiating, looks at some of the profession's more colourful characters, relives some of the decisions that altered the course of a critical game and season, and examines the issues facing today's official.
£18.04
Taylor Trade Publishing Warsaw to Wrigley: A Foreign Correspondent's Tale
Book SynopsisAfter more than a decade as a foreign correspondent for UPI and the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Reaves came home to a new career covering baseball; not just any baseball, but Chicago Cubs baseball. Warsaw to Wrigley is the story of getting reacquainted with the U.S. from behind-the-scenes in the baseball press box, with all its blemishes and beauty.
£18.04
Taylor Trade Publishing The Cubs Fan's Book of Days: A Guide to Every
Book SynopsisThrow away that Franklin Covey personal organizer and get some real order in your life with Jim Langford's The Cub Fan's Book of Days! Langford offers history, humor, celebration, and always hope, as well as plenty of space for you to add your own thoughts on every day from year to year. The Cub Fan's Book of Days: the eighth habit of highly effective—and optimistic—people.
£16.14
Taylor Trade Publishing Is This Heaven?: The Magic of the Field of Dreams
Book SynopsisMore than a decade ago, the film Field of Dreams made grown men cry with its tale of a son's quest to know his father through the magic of baseball. The mystical baseball field of that movie continues to attract thousands of visitors and here is the story of a make-believe place made real, its incredible lure, and its effect on the people who have stepped between its chalk lines.Trade Review"It makes people feel like they want to be kids again." Once he finished pitching batting practice and taking a few cuts at the plate, Mandel dug out his tape recorder and notebook and started talking to visitors. a book that tells the stories of people who found peace, hope and renewal at the baseball diamond carved out of a cornfield. -- Chuck Schoffner * Cincinnati Enquirer *In a fascinating blending of reality and fictions, the field has become a shrine to those qualities and to nostalgia itself. The stories shared there are so memorable that Philadelphia writre Brett H. Mandel compiled them in a book. -- Diane Daniel * Boston.Com *Will appeal to all those like him who find soul and fulfillment in all things sentimentally baseball. Is this Heaven looks at the remarkable appeal that draws roughly 75,000 people a year to visit the baseball field. -- Robert Strauss * The Philadelphia Inquirer *If you are willing to suspend disbelief for a second, you can almost convince yourself you've stepped into the film. * Redford Observer *"Some of the stories, when I encountered them it was almost like I had to pinch myself," Mandel said. "I's find myself saying, 'this is great'. -- Chuck Schoffner/AP * The Post and Courier *A book that tells the stories of people who found peace, hope, and renewal carved out of a cornfield for the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams' * Idependent Mirror *Senior citizens bring a glove even though they haven't thrown for ages. Somebody in a wheelchair is bein pushed around the bases. There's something very neat about htis field. It brings out something in people. * Hattiesburg American *The hit movie appealed to Mandel immediately for its themes of redemption, its look at baseball and for unleashing feelings of hope which reside in us all. Mandel finds fathers reconnecting with sons at the site; he sees the final trip for an aging man and his family; and he meets tourists from all around Iowa, Chicago, and get this, Japan. The people who read this are charmed by the stories and they come away feeling Iowa is some special place. -- Tim Gallagher * Sioux City Journal *A book dedicated to examining whether the magic found in a popular Hollywood movie is fact or fiction. Looks at the effect traveling to America's heartland for the sake of running around the bases, shagging fly balls and knocking a few out of the park has had on countless fans of America's pastime. -- D. E. Kern * Express Times *
£17.09
Taylor Trade Publishing Invincible Summer: Traveling America in Search of
Book SynopsisAuthor Dave D'Antonio recounts his cross-country trek which brought him through 43 states and across more than 25,000 miles to the grave sites of baseball legends. Invincible Summer captures the spirit of the small towns and big cities through which D'Antonio traveled during his five month odyssey. This unique mix of baseball and travelogue is offbeat and hilarious, poignant and engaging, and most of all, a riveting read.
£11.39
Taylor Trade Publishing The Giants Fan's Little Book of Wisdom
Book SynopsisThe fifth in Diamond Communications' "Little Book" series, The Giants Fan's Little Book of Wisdom combines history, quotes, facts, and humor and gives fans of the San Francisco Giants 101 reasons to laugh, reminisce, and celebrate the game and the team they love.
£7.47
Taylor Trade Publishing The Cubs Fan's Little Book of Wisdom: 101
Book SynopsisThe first in Diamond Communications' Little Book series, The Cubs Fan's Little Book of Wisdom combines history, quotes, facts, and humor and gives fans of the team 101 reasons to laugh, reminisce, and celebrate the game and the team they love.
£7.85
Taylor Trade Publishing The Million-to-One Team: Why the Chicago Cubs
Book SynopsisIn The Million-to-One Team, author George Castle traces all the management actions and strategies that kept the Cubs on the golf course in October while every other team in existence in 1945 has been in at least one World Series, and a goodly number in far more than that. Castle also looks at the proverbial glimmer of hope that could end the unparalleled championship drought.
£22.50
Taylor Trade Publishing The Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom: A Fine
Book SynopsisThe Red Sox Fan's Little Book of Wisdom uses fact, quote, lesson, and humor to celebrate one of baseball's more storied franchises. Updated edition!Trade ReviewA bemused romp through the annual antics of this boundless, confounded team. -- Ned Martin (Red Sox announcer) * Lake and Valley Clarion *
£7.45
Baseball America Baseball America's Ultimate Draft Book: The Most
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£38.21
Baseball America National Baseball Hall of Fame Almanac: 2018
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£21.21
Baseball America Baseball America's Head of the Class
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£19.96
Baseball America Baseball America's Before They Were Stars
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£26.21
Baseball America Baseball America 2019 Directory: Who's Who in
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£23.96
Baseball America Baseball America 2019 Prospect Handbook
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£26.21
Baseball America Baseball America 2015 Directory: 2015 Baseball
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£22.46
Baseball America Baseball America 2020 Almanac
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£20.76
Baseball America Baseball America 2020 Prospect Handbook
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£26.21
Baseball America Baseball America's Before They Were Stars
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£19.96
Baseball America Baseball America 2020 Directory: Who's Who in
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£23.96
Time Inc Home Entertaiment Sports Illustrated: Inside Baseball: The Best of
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£22.06
Society for American Baseball Research Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of more than 170 photos and two dozen essays and which tell the 120-year history of baseball in the Pacific Northwest. The stories range chronologically from the origins of the professional game in the region in the 1890s through the account of the 2001 season of the Seattle Mariners and focus on baseball in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver, British Columbia.
£12.34
Falls Media Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through
Book SynopsisCardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh's classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as "Designated Pinch Runner" Herb Washington and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Cardboard Gods is more than just the story of a man who can't let go of his past, it's proof that -- to paraphrase Jim Bouton -- as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it's really the other way around.
£21.13
Robert D. Reed Publishers Two Guys Read the Box Scores: Conversations on
Book SynopsisAnother HOME RUN from the TWO GUYS!In this book, Chandler and Hill take their game to a whole new level. This time they are assuming their favorite profession of all: baseball fans. Read along as they follow, dissect, critique, and enliven a whole major league season from different cities on opposite sides of the country.You'll chuckle and howl with them as they chronicle their teams' bizarre highs and lows. As in the first three books in this hilarious series, Chandler and Hill go off on wild tangents and trade many exchanges on subjects seemingly unrelated to baseball. But by the end of the book they convince you that baseball might just be the one thing in life that holds us all together.Chandler is a former sportswriter who has twenty books to his credit, and Hill is an award-winning advertising creative director and playwright. It also didn't hurt that these two guys have been close friends since the 1950s, and that they played on a Little League championship team together in 1955.
£13.25
Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies & the
Book SynopsisBraham Dabscheck muses upon some of baseball''s silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labour relations, Curt Flood, law and organised baseball); social commentary biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. This collection of essays is both insightful and remarkable, and is a valuable companion to any enthusiast.
£17.09
Cameron & Company Inc Never. Say. Die.: The 2012 World Championship San
Book SynopsisThe San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2012, their second championship in two years. Acclaimed Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball photographer Brad Mangin has captured this historic season with breathtaking photographs that evoke the Giants' relentless spirit of passion and persistence in 2012. Brian Murphy, beloved Bay Area sports radio personality, tells the story of the Giants' championship season in great detail, highlighting this never-say-die attitude that empowered the Giants to overcome adversity throughout the regular and postseason and ultimately led them to an epic four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Never. Say. Die. is truly an art book in form and in function. Featuring over 125 awe-inspiring photographs, this book provides a rare view of one team's championship season seen through the lens of one photographer, Brad Mangin, resulting in a beautiful baseball photo monograph that San Francisco Giants' fans and baseball fans around the world are sure to relish. The book's design and format go above and beyond the typical sports photo book, emphasizing the grit and edge of the Giants' character throughout the season. As a result, Never. Say. Die. stands out uniquely among others in the field.Trade Review"Go ahead, soak in the memories and images on these pages. I know I will." Sergio Romo"...a delight, starting with the cover photo of Sergio Romo icing a win. Fabulous photography by Brad Mangin, text by Brian Murphy--a celebration of a gritty, determined team." - Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness
£20.89
Society for American Baseball Research The National Pastime, 2018: Steel City Stories
Book SynopsisThe National Pastime is the annual review of baseball historical research and regional topics published by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Each year the publication focuses on the history of baseball in a different region or city, following the annual SABR convention from one major league territory to another.The 2018 volume focuses on Pittsburgh, home to some truly significant episodes in baseball history, being not only the home to the great Negro Leagues teams the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, but to a major league team who came by their name honestly--no pun intended--for what others called the "piratical" practice of poaching players. The articles in the volume are arranged chronologically, starting from the opening of Forbes Field in 1909 and carrying through to a story of the annual fan gathering each October at the section of Forbes Field wall that still stands today. Fane re-live the magic of Game Seven of the 1960 Wold Series on the very spot where Bill Mazeroski's home run flew over the wall. The articles feature not only the hall-of-fame players Honus Wagner, Josh Gibson, Roberto Clemente, and Willie Stargell, but some lesser remembered figures like Guy Bush, Roy Face, Sam Bankhead, and Carlos Bernier. The tales of Honus Wagner running for sheriff, Moses YellowHorse learning bad habits from Rabbit Maranville, and Pirates player Mudcat Grant's quest to sing the National Anthem are told alongside articles detailing Pittsburgh-related baseball litigation, Pirates appearances in the movies, and amateur baseball contests that produced several major leaguers. Table of Contents Forbes Field: Ahead of Its Time in 1909 by Robert C. Trumpbour Honus Wagner: Baseball's Prototypical Five-Tooler? by Herm Krabbenhoft Honus Wagner, Spring Fever, and Two Three Stooges by Rob Edelman Honus Wagner’s Short Stint as Pirates Skipper in a Forgettable Final Season by Gregory H. Wolf Wagner for Sheriff: Honus Runs into the Coolidge Tax Cut by Mark Souder Moses YellowHorse, Pittsburgh Pirate by George Skornickel A Dark, Rainy Game Seven: The Pirates Defeat the Big Train in the 1925 World Series by Gary Sarnoff The 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates: More Than the Murderers’ Row Opponent by Gordon J. Gattie Guy Bush: That Guy From Pittsburgh by Matthew M. Clifford The 1931 Homestead Grays : The Greatest Baseball Team of All Time by Charlie Fouché The Greatest Outfield? by Ted Knorr From Bat to Baton: Josh Gibson, the Pittsburgh Opera, and The Summer King by David Krell Why Isn’t Sam Bankhead in the Baseball Hall of Fame? by Richard “Pete” Peterson A View from the Bench: Baseball Litigation and the Steel City by John Racanelli From Sandlot to Center Stage: Pittsburgh Youth All-Star Games 1944–59 by Alan Cohen Turning the Pirates’ Ship by Francis Kinlaw Ralph Kiner and Branch Rickey: Not a Happy Marriage by John J. Burbridge, Jr. The Pittsburgh Pirates Go to the Movies by Ron Backer Roy Face’s Incredible 1959 Season by Ed Edmonds Cubs: Pirates Biggest Rivals? by William E. McMahon Carlos Bernier and Roberto Clemente :Historical Links in Pittsburgh and Puerto Rico by Thomas E. Van Hyning Roberto Clemente and The Odd Couple Two Different Stories by Rob Edelman Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Mudcat Grant’s Odyssey to Sing the National Anthem by Dan VanDeMortel 1971: Willie Stargell’s Pivotal Season by Blake W. Sherry The Annual Forbes Field Celebration: Pirates Fans Relive Mazeroski’s Moment by Richard J. Puerzer
£12.34
Bookpress Publishing Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger's Bumpy Trek Across
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£17.95
City Point Press If God Invented Baseball: Poems
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£12.74
City Point Press When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other
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£13.59
City Point Press How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask: Poems
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£13.59
Baseball Prospectus Baltimore Orioles 2019: A Baseball Companion
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£5.46
