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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.
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The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "th… -
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times) authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time. Willie Mays i…
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Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, h…
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more cover… -
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Now the inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC
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Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Ma… -
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
The #1 New York Times and USA Today Nonfiction Bestseller!
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Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new … -
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
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Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in histo… -
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly…
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges a…
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times the salary of all NFL quarterbacks combined. Pitchers are the lifeblood of the sport, th… -
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France as a resolute knight defends his wife's honor against the squire she accuses of a heinous crime.
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In the midst of the devastatin… -
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost".
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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easte… -
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller "Sandy Koufax" with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder …
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
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“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a c… -
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
From the catalog: At long last, the epic biography Ted Williams deserves – and that his fans have been waiting for. Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. This Red Sox legend's batting …
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King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta
A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.
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King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way … -
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… -
Napoleon: A Life
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the …
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Brothers
In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribut…
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