Who's Who in Professional Baseball
Arlington House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. The ultimate Baseball encyclopedia. Fine, tight copy in fine dust jacket with tiny tear on bottom front cover.
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The Sunlit Field
New York: Crown, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement as is correct). Hardcover. 333 pp. Very good, some fade to the spine. In dust jacket, about very good with some edge wear and wear to the folds. A novel of a young Irish immigrant woman and her beau.....
The Sunlt Field
NY: Crown, 1950. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Novel of two young Irish immigrants who make their way to Brooklyn and fall in love in the 1850s. More importantly, this is the first baseball-themed novel written by a woman for adult readers (there were a very few 19th century efforts.....
The Dixon Cornbelt League, and Other Baseball Stories
NY: Harpercollins, 1995. First. Hardcover. First edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Terrific anthology of baseball related short stories from the author of "Shoelss Joe". The title story, with its Twilight Zone quality, is one of the best pieces on short baseball fiction in the last 25 years.
Pittsburgh Pirates: Still Walking Tall
Sagamore Pub Llc, 1993. Hardcover. Hardcover. x+ 275 pp. Illustrated. Fine (rem. stripe bottom edge) in fine dust jacket. The story of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team from the time when Jim Leyland took over as manager in 1986 through the their modern renaissance years of 1990-92, a period when.....
Big League Batting Secrets
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement of edition, which is correct). Hardcover. Introduction by Al Kaline. xvi+ 237 pp. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Fine in near fine dust jacket with very minor wear at the head edge of the spine. American League batting.....
To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976
Princeton Univ Pr, 1991. Hardcover. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Hardcover. 237 pp. with index. Illustrated. A history of ther old ballpark that was located at 21st and Lehigh in Philadelphia, Shibe Park (later known as Connie Mack Stadium). When it opened in 1909, it was the first concrete and.....
Spalding's World Tour
New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 341 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrated. The story of the epic adventure that took baseball around the globe--the World's Tour organized by sporting goods magnate A.G. Spalding and conducted over the winter of 1888-89.....
Lose With A Smile
New York: Scribners, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine copy with minor wear at the spine edges, small onership signature front pastedown. In a bright, vg+ jacket, price clipped, some shallow creasing top edge and light soiling to the rear panel.
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
NY: George H. Doran, 1916. First. Hard Cover. First edition, second state binding of buff colored cloth lettered in black and with small design of ball player inside black lined square on front board. 247 pp. The classic, still hilarious collection of "letters home" by self-inflated baseball rookie Jack Keefe.....
The Babe: A Life in Pictures
Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N. These order will ONLY ship media mail and will not ship internationally). First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Oversized hardcover. Photo illustrated endpapers. 282 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout with vintage photos and reproductions including.....
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Doubleday, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 390 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. Rollicking but historically accurate and informative of biography of Babe Ruth. From a bleak childhood in Baltimore and years in a Catholic institution for boys, Ruth became and remains the.....
Ted Williams The Biography of an American Hero (Large Print edition)
Random House Large Print, 2004. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First large print edition (stated). Hardcover. xv+ 992 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. The definitive biography of Boston Red Sox great, Baseball Hall of Famer, and American war hero Ted Williams. Williams (1918-2002) was a native of San Diego.....
Nice Guys Finish Last
Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright fine example with publisher's stamp bottom edge. In fine, bright dust jacket. 448 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. The autobiography of Hall of Fame baseball manager "Lippy" Leo Durocher. Light-hitting Durocher played defensivly outstanding shortstop for the.....
Nice Guys Finish Last
Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 448 pp. with index. Illustrated. Generally fine but with rem. stripe bottom edge. In near fine dust jacket. The autobiography of Hall of Fame baseball manager "Lippy" Leo Durocher. Light-hitting Durocher played defensivly outstanding shortstop for the Yankees (Babe Ruth.....
Baseball Joe in the Central League
New York: Cupples & Leon, 1914. Hardcover. Hardcover in grey cloth decorated and lettered in black and red. This title last in list of Baseball Joe book verso of the title page but with later state ads with "Captain of the Team" last in list in the ads. Four full.....
Sweet Lou
Putnam Adult, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. 300 pp. Ilustrated with photographs. The story of the tumultous 1985 New York Yankees baseball season (and other seasons) as told by their left fielder (and later manager) Lou Piniella. Piniella broke into the majors.....
Columbus Slaughters Braves: A Novel.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 200 pp. Joe Columbus is an ordinary guy but his brother CJ, however, is anything but---he's the Chicago Cubs star third baseman, In a voice both humorous and plaintive, Joe tells of his brother's remarkable.....
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
Riverhead, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 272 pp. with bibliography, index. A bnook about poverty and wealth, tenacity and survival, colonialism and capitalism, the Dominican people, a small Caribbean town---and baseball. By 2008, seventy-nine boys and men for San Pedro de Macoris had.....
Base Ball Cartes
Saratoga Springs, NY: Haymaker Books, 1988. First edition. Oblong in illustrated softcovers. 64 pp. with bibliography. Illustrated with 82 reproductions of rare early photographic images of baseball teams and players. Near fine, small corner crease front cover and modest use crease to the spine. Scarce survey of early baseball CDV-sized.....
Odd Man OutA Year On The Mound with a Minor League Misfit
Viking Adult, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 294 pp. The captivating, hilarious memoirs of Matt McCarthy, a molecular physic major at Yale (and a mediocre lefthanded starting pitcher on their baseball team) who was chosed in the 26th round of the draft, signed.....
The Tiger Wore Spikes: An Informal Biography of Ty Cobb (in dust jacket)
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 240 pp. with index, statistical appendix. Illustrated with photographs. First edition. A baseball book that has become increasingly scarce, a biography of Ty Cobb. One of the sport's more interesting (and sometimes scary) characters, Cobb spent most of career with the.....
Ty Cobb
Praeger, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. One of the two best biographies of baseball's Ty Cobb. One of the most complex and driven players ever to tep on the diamond, Cobb was the game's greatest hitter; his all-out, often vicious style of play made him the bane of opposing.....
Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game
W. W. Norton, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. One of the most important and influential sports books of the past fifty years, the inside story of the Oakland Athletics of the early 2000s and its General Manager Billy Beane. The team.....
The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
Doubleday, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. The sun was setting on "The Boys Of Summer", the 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers. They had finally won a World Series the year before and would abandon Brooklyn after the 1957.....