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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
DescriptionAuthorized by Willie Mays, the definitive biography of one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Authorized by Willie Mays and written by a New York Times bestselling author, this is the definitive biography of one of baseball's immortals.

Considered to be "as monumental--and enigmatic--a legend as American sport has ever seen" ...

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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
DescriptionA story together with a big heart concerning a boy, a coach, the strategy of baseball, and the strategy of life.

"There are teachers together with a rare capability to enter a kid's intellect; it's as if their capability to get there at all provides them the right to stay forever."

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball strategy when he was fourteen ...

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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
DescriptionHe is this rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.

Few dependable records or news reports survive concerning players in the Negro Leagues. Throughout dogged ...
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ManufacturerRandom House
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Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero
DescriptionThe definitive biography of the baseball legend who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home-run record—the natural way—and withstood a firestorm of media criticism to become one of his era's preeminent players.

ROGER MARIS may be the greatest ballplayer no one really recognizes. In 1961, the soft-spoken man from the frozen plains of North ...

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The Yankee Years
DescriptionThe definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.
 
When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In this time seventeen others had tried to get the helm of America’s much famous baseball team. Every one was fired by ...
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Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head---My 25 Years in Baseball
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ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian has spent extra than twenty-five years covering nearly three thousand key league baseball games and interviewing concerning this many players, coaches, managers, and executives.

            In Is This a Excellent Strategy, or What?, Kurkjian combines his years of experience, uncanny knowledge, and deep love of the ...

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Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
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In 1884, Providence Grays pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn won an astounding fifty-nine games—extra than anyone in key-league history ever had before, or has since. He then went on to win all three games of baseball's first World Series.

Fifty-nine in '84 tells the dramatic story not only of this amazing feat of grit but ...

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Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back
DescriptionJosh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, ...
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Willie Mays: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)
DescriptionWillie Mays' career bridged eras in baseball history, from the Negro Leagues to extension to free agency. Throughout it all, his all-all-around capability and his love of the strategy set him apart. His career accomplishments contain 660 home runs, 2 MVPs, Rookie of the Year, and the first 30-30 season. No other player is cited by so many of his peers as the ...
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Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner,and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
DescriptionIf ever there was a figure who changed the strategy of baseball, it was Walter O’Malley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the much controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade the key leagues and altered the course of history in together Brooklyn and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to ...
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