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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research …

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The Bad Guys Won! : A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best

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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary…

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Shoeless Joe

“If you build it, he will come.”

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A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.

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Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.

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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

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This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text and all the photographs that were in the original book, published in 1966, plus for the first time the…

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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

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