Baseball: A Literary Anthology
 Perfect for the season, perfect for the off-season: When Ted Williams died a few months ago, someone described "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," John Updike's chronicle of Williams' final game, as "the most perfect piece of sports writing ever.& [... more]
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
The little guys took the fall.: I saw the movie, but the book explains in more detail the tragedy of the 1919 World Series White Sox (or Black Sox). This book details that the gamblers such as the Little Champ were the real villians in this fiasco. [... more]
$15.00
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Amazon.com Review: Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long [... more]
$24.95
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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
Amazon.com Review: As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio piled into a car and drove 1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, [... more]
$22.95
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The Curse of the Bambino
Curse is a misnomer: The idea that the Red Sox were cursed because Harry Frazee sold the Bambino to finance a show is a misnomer at best, and a sincere lack of honesty at worst. The true reason the Red Sox failed to win a World Series title in 86 years [... more]
$14.00
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
It's about the great stories: I'll agree with the author that Sandy was a terrific pitcher and an introvert in a sport where it seems like all the really big stars were all capitalizing on their fame. But the really great thing about the book were all [... more]
$13.95
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Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons
Amazon.com Review: Near the end of Yogi Berra’s memoir, Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons, he observes that he was never that popular with the media because "I’d always never tell too much." He could have said the same thing about his book. [... more]
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The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams
um idk wut 2 put here ???: Book review mod 1 Over the summer I read a few books. One of those books was The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your by Derek Jeter. I choose this book because I'm a Yankees fan and love Derek Jeter. This book is [... more]
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Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir
Limited Appeal: Me and My Dad is Paul O'Neill's tribute to his late father Chuck O'Neill. The book takes you through Paul's life from playing homerun derby in his backyard as a child, to playing in the World Series as a New York Yankee. He places [... more]
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Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and out of ...
Show's yet another reason for needing gay marriage: GREAT story. I am not a sports fan, but couldn't put the book down once I started to read it. I think Billy helps to prove that the stereotype that gay men are vain is wrong. Here is a man that could [... more]
$23.95
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This Ain't Brain Surgery : How to Win the Pennant ...
Only so-so: I am also a long time Astro fan, but only found the book marginally enjoyable. The first 50 and last 50 pages of the book were more enjoyable when he told humorous stories about his playing and broadcasting days. However, he seemed to me to [... more]
$25.00
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Zim: A Baseball Life
Amazon.com Review: For more than half a century, Don Zimmer, baseball's beloved gerbil, has been the Zelig of the national pastime, the character in the corner of so many interesting pictures. He may have been only--as he likes to remind us throughout [... more]
$15.00
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