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  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    by Michael Lewis ...
    "One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball ... Read more

    €12.29

  • The Art of Fielding

    by Chad Harbach ...
    ‘Sensational’ OBSERVER‘Terrific’ JONATHAN FRANZEN‘Exceptional’ GUARDIAN‘Pure fun’ JOHN IRVING‘Outstanding’ THE TIMESA disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed debut novel of love, life and baseball.Henry Skrimshander, a shy, small-town kid, arrives at Westish College w... ... Read more

    €7.40

  • Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    by Gary Mack, David Casstevens ...
    Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. ... Read more

    €12.29

  • Ball Four

    My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues

    by Jim Bouton ...
    Series Book 1 - RosettaBooks Sports Classics
    The 50th Anniversary edition of "the book that changed baseball" (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Non-Fiction" books.When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a "social leper" for having violated the "sanctity of the clubhouse." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement ... Read more

    €13.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rocket That Fell to Earth

    Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality

    by Jeff Pearlman ...
    “Pearlman’s book develops a stark, unsparing picture of Clemens’s life that surpasses anything that’s come before.” —Boston GlobeNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs pitcher Roger Clemens's life—from his Ohio childhood to the mounds of Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium—to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before ... Read more

    €8.25

  • Love Me, Hate Me

    Barry Bonds and the making of an Antiher

    by Jeff Pearlman ...
    From acclaimed sports writer and bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, a searing and insightful look into the life and career of Barry Bonds, one of the most celebrated, contradictory and controversial sports figures of our timeNo player in the history of baseball has left such an indelible mark on the game as Barry Bonds. In his twenty-year career, Bonds has amassed an unprecedented 7 Most Valuable ... Read more

    €9.43

  • Holiday Games: A Play-By-Play Novella 6.5

    by Jaci Burton ...
    Series Book 6 - Play-By-Play
    Holiday Games is a sexy holiday novella in the Play-By-Play series from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton. Perfect for fans of Lori Foster, Maya Banks and Jill Shalvis.All Elizabeth and Gavin Riley want for Christmas is a baby. Despite over a year of trying, conception hasn't been successful. But for a high-achiever like Elizabeth, she must succeed at everything. That means making the ... Read more

    €4.49

  • Foul Ball

    by Jim Bouton ...
    Series series RosettaBooks Sports Classics
    A rollicking and "compelling" true story of baseball, big money, and small-town politics by the author of the classic Ball Four ( Publishers Weekly).Host to organized baseball since 1892, Pittsfield, Massachusetts's Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town—an all too familiar story. Enter former Yankee ... Read more

    €13.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faithful

    Two Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season

    by Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King ...
    Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, lifelong Boston Red Sox addicts, chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last dramatic game, in their dramatic World Series-winning season.Who better to follow the fortunes of a 'cursed' team like the Boston Red Sox than two renowned horror writers and lifelong Red Sox addicts?Red Sox fans have seen it all since 1918... except that elusive ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Summer of '49

    by David Halberstam ...
    This #1 bestselling baseball classic of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is "a celebration of a vanished heroic age" ( The New York Times Book Review ).The summer of 1949: It was baseball's Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees were locked in a soon-to-be classic battle with Ted Williams's Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant. As postwar America looked for a unifying moment, ... Read more

    €14.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's How You Play the Game

    The Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America's Finest

    by Brian Kilmeade ...
    In life as in sports, it's how you play the game that mattersYou don't have to be a star athlete to take away valuable lessons from the world of sports, whether it's learning how to get along with others, to never give up, or to be gracious in victory and defeat. In this companion volume to his New York Times bestseller, The Games Do Count, Brian Kilmeade reveals personal stories of the defining ... Read more

    €9.43

  • Trading Bases

    How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball

    by Joe Peta ...
    An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true.Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious—and incredibly risky—dream. He would apply his risk-analysis skills to Major League Baseball, and treat the sport ... Read more

    €4.39

  • Baseball Field Guide

    An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball

    by Dan Formosa, Paul Hamburger ...
    Newly updated third edition: A “splendidly clear and concise” guide to the rules of the game (The Boston Globe).Even if you’re a diehard fan of our national pastime, sometimes an umpire’s call can be a little baffling. And for newer fans, Major League Baseball’s nuanced rules—developed and revised over decades—can be downright perplexing.Now updated throughout with the latest changes, including ... Read more

    €12.20

  • Pee Wee League Baseball

    by Britt Timmons ...
    Pee Wee Reese played shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1940 to 1957. He played in nearly 2200 games and had a life time batting average of .269. While with the team the Dodgers won six National League Pennants. In 1959 he became one of the first baseball sports broadcasters. He was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. ... Read more

    €3.61

  • Hitting Drills and Much More

    by Robert M. Braun Sr. ...
    The hitting book is a manual/book designed to help correct many common hitting mistakes like stepping in the bucket, casting, and many others. It also provides valuable information regarding the development and management of ball players. This is what was said about “Hitting Drills and Much More” Babe Ruth Bullpen An article in the September 1997 BABE RUTH BULLPEN said,...”Hitting Drills and Much ... Read more

    €3.61

  • The 1883 Philadelphia Athletics

    American Association Champions

    Edited by Paul Hofmann, Bill Nowlin, Bob LeMoine ...
    In 1883, the Philadelphia Athletics were champions of the American Association. Although they are largely-forgotten today, the team epitomized the Beer and Whiskey League. The summer of 1883 had one of the tightest pennant races in baseball history to that point, with the Athletics edging out Chris Von Der Ahe's St. Louis Browns by a single game. The race fueled the popularity of the game of ... Read more

    €10.89

  • Early Baseball and the Rise of the National League

    by Tom Melville ...
    Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise simply from a desire to turn baseball into a business? Did William Hulbert, organizer of the National League, really “save” baseball? These are three of the questions examined in this work about early baseball’s role in American culture. Beginning with an introduction to the sport as ... Read more

    €11.65

  • Hammerin' Hank Fletcher

    by Gary Cecil ...
    Nineteen-year-old Hank Fletcher is on his way to pitching a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, only to be confronted by the ghost of his abusive father. ... Read more

    €0.97

  • Ten Stories from the Roaring Twenties

    by James Kreis ...
    This book encompasses a unique decade in the history of the United States, one that figuratively exploded in terms of business expansion and worth, social experimentation, individual ingenuity and general prosperity the vast majority of those achievements coming in the first half of the period. Who possibly would have thought all those cutting edge gains would come to an abrupt halt as the 1930s ... Read more

    €9.25

  • The Homerun Kid

    by Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa, Brian Gordon Sinclair ...
    Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa played baseball for Ernest Hemingway’s team in Cuba. In this unique memoir, he writes: "For twenty years now, I have been recording my memories. I commit these memories to paper to honor Ernest Hemingway and the kindness he showed to me when I was a child. I also write to share many of the factual details that have never been fully known about his involvement with Cuban ... Read more

    €3.71

  • The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia

    Second Edition

    by David Finoli, Bill Ranier ...
    The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the most storied histories in the annuals of baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia captures these fabulous times through the stories of the individuals and the collective teams that have thrilled the Steel City for 125 years. The book breaks down the team with a year-by-year synopsis of the club, biographies of over 180 of the most memorable Pirates ... Read more

    €28.26

  • War on the Basepaths

    The Definitive Biography of Ty Cobb

    by Tim Hornbaker ...
    During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson). As someone who retired from the game over eighty-five years ago, he is still the leader for career batting average, second in runs, hits, ... Read more

    €11.16

  • Yankees by the Numbers

    A Complete Team History of the Bronx Bombers by Uniform Number

    by Bill Gutman ...
    What do Mark Koenig, Red Rolfe, Frank Crosetti, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Murcer, Wayne Tolleson, and Derek Jeter all have in common? They all wore number 2 for the New York Yankees, even though nearly eight decades have passed between the first time Koenig buttoned up a Yankee uniform with that number and the last time Jeter performed the same routine.The 1929 New York Yankees were the first Major ... Read more

    €11.16

  • Team First

    History of Baseball Integration & Civil Rights

    by Lloyd H. H. Barrow ...
    The year 2017 is a special year, the seventieth anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson integrating modern baseball. Robinson's successes and challenges have been documented by baseball and civil rights historians. This three-part book presents the chronological history of baseball integration along with the major civil rights events of the 1940s and 1950s. Team First focuses upon ... Read more

    €7.84