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Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro
Written by Tim McCarver and Danny Peary
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $11.99
Tim McCarver, major league baseball's premier analyst, has been surprising and delighting viewers for years with his remarkable insight. Fans who once were content to merely watch baseball were stimulated into wanting to think baseball as well. McCarver brings to the booth a combination of twenty-one years of major league service... Read more >
Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro
Written by Tim McCarver and Danny Peary
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2013
Price: $11.99
Tim McCarver, major league baseball's premier analyst, has been surprising and delighting viewers for years with his remarkable insight. Fans who once were content to merely watch baseball were stimulated into wanting to think baseball as well. McCarver brings to the booth a combination of twenty-one years of major league service... Read more >
Also available as a
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Mickey and Willie
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $27.00
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $27.00
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Mickey and Willie
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
Written by Allen Barra
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field.
Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Class A
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $26.95
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
Also available as an
eBook.
Class A
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99
Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Written by Lucas Mann
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $13.99
An unforgettable chronicle of a year of minor-league baseball in a small Iowa town that follows not only the travails of the players of the Clinton LumberKings but also the lives of their dedicated fans and of the town itself.
Award-winning essayist Lucas Mann delivers a powerful debut in his telling of the...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Full Count
Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
Written by Jeff Blair
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2013
Price: $30.00
From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great... Read more >
Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
Written by Jeff Blair
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2013
Price: $30.00
From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Full Count
Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
Written by Jeff Blair
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great... Read more >
Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
Written by Jeff Blair
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99
From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Imperfect
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $14.00
“Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Born without... Read more >
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $14.00
“Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Born without... Read more >
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Who's on Worst?
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.95
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $24.95
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
Who's on Worst?
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $12.99
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $12.99
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Who's on Worst?
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $20.00
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History
Written by Filip Bondy
Read by Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $20.00
A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun
Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle... Read more >
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Trading Bases
A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order)
Written by Joe Peta
Read by Fred Sanders
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 7, 2013
Price: $20.00
An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.
After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job... Read more >
A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order)
Written by Joe Peta
Read by Fred Sanders
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 7, 2013
Price: $20.00
An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.
After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job... Read more >
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Lefty
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty... Read more >
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty... Read more >
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Year of the San Francisco Giants
2012 World Series Champions
Written by Major League Baseball
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $19.99
2012 World Series Champions
Written by Major League Baseball
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $19.99
Published in conjunction with Major League Baseball®, the official WORLD SERIES® Championship Recap Book, will be the most detailed and spectacular book to celebrate this season's World Series and the men that starred in it!
The 2012 WORLD SERIES will be captured in stunning detail in the Official MLB WORLD SERIES Championship...
Ichiro on Ichiro
Behind the Bat with Yankees Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki
Written by Ichiro Suzuki
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $19.95
Ichiro Suzuki, one of the New York Yankees' newest outfielders and hottest batters, talks about all things baseball in this candid book that reveals the inner mind of one of baseball's finest practitioners. Since Ichiro Suzuki joined the Seattle Mariners in 2001, he awed America, earned the respect of his teammates... Read more >
Behind the Bat with Yankees Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki
Written by Ichiro Suzuki
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $19.95
Ichiro Suzuki, one of the New York Yankees' newest outfielders and hottest batters, talks about all things baseball in this candid book that reveals the inner mind of one of baseball's finest practitioners. Since Ichiro Suzuki joined the Seattle Mariners in 2001, he awed America, earned the respect of his teammates... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Lefty
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $28.00
A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story.
Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular... Read more >
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $28.00
A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story.
Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Lefty
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty... Read more >
An American Odyssey
Written by Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Stan Musial
An American Life
Written by George Vecsey
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $16.00
An American Life
Written by George Vecsey
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $16.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the biographical treatment he deserves. Stan Musial is the definitive portrait of one of the game’s best-loved but most unappreciated legends—told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered...
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Imperfect
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $26.00
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... Read more >
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $26.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Imperfect
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Born without... Read more >
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $9.99
“Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Born without... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Imperfect
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Read by Jim Abbott
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $35.00
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... Read more >
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Read by Jim Abbott
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $35.00
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... Read more >
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Imperfect
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Read by Jim Abbott
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
An Improbable Life
Written by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
Read by Jim Abbott
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $20.00
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... Read more >
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Raceball
How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
Written by Rob Ruck
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $18.00
From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball
After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded... Read more >
How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game
Written by Rob Ruck
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $18.00
From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball
After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded... Read more >
Baseballissimo
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game... Read more >
Written by Dave Bidini
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 21, 2011
Price: $11.99
In the spring of 2002, Dave Bidini set off for Nettuno, Italy, with his wife, Janet, and their two small children, in search of his favourite summer game, baseball. Nettuno was his destination because this town, south of Rome, has been the baseball capital of Italy since 1944, when the game... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals
Celebrating the 2011 World Series Champions
Written by Major League Baseball
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $19.99
Heading into the 2011 season's final month, the St. Louis Cardinals had no chance to make the postseason - at least, that's what logic indicated. But by the end of October, they were hoisting the World Series trophy, celebrating the franchise's 11th world championship and its second in six years. All... Read more >
Celebrating the 2011 World Series Champions
Written by Major League Baseball
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $19.99
Heading into the 2011 season's final month, the St. Louis Cardinals had no chance to make the postseason - at least, that's what logic indicated. But by the end of October, they were hoisting the World Series trophy, celebrating the franchise's 11th world championship and its second in six years. All... Read more >
