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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

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.

Posnanski writes of major moments that created leg…

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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.

Baseball is “the New Y…

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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.” – Sports Illustrated From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Hen…

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Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar, #7)

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Myron Bolitar's father's recent heart attack brings Myron smack into a midlife encounte…

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City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.

Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich.

The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a resp…

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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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2054

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap for…

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Rogers Hornsby: A Biography

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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cul…

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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

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Tris Speaker: The Rough-And-Tumble Life Of A Baseball Legend

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A Blaze of Glory (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater, #1)

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western T…

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Summer of '49

With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize–winningauthor David Halberstam returns us to a glorious time when the dreams of a now almost forgotten America rested on the crack of a bat.…

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