Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGHH AMAZON, ALIBRIS, B&N). Oversized hardcover in black cloth. 155 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Second printing. Fine in near fine, lightly edge tones dust jacket featuring a color image of Mickey Mantle homering. Issued for the golden anniversary of the opening of.....
Dutton Adult, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dustjacket. 278 pages with appendix.
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Harry N. Abrams, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Oversized hardcover. 198 p. with index. 205 photographs. Fine in fine dust jcket with a touch of rubbing. Compiled in cooperation with The Sporting News, a stunning collection of historic baseball photography from the early master of the genre, Charles Conlon.....
