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1) Calico Joe
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Workman Publishing
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172 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Meet unsung pioneers, like John "Bud" Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weldy Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson. Discover unforgettable moments like the time a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Marvel at records: did you know that Japanese superstar Sadaharu Oh has a whopping 113 more career homers than Hank Aaron? And...
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Bromance book club volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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When his wife asks for a divorce, Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife....
4) The natural
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Tristar
Pub. Date
[2007]
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2 DVDs (144 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A baseball player must fight his past to help his team to the World Series.
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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369 pages ; 18 cm.
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When former pitcher Rowdy Blanton hires Breeanne Carlyle to ghostwrite his memoir about his baseball career, she makes him want to be a better man, while she is drawn to him despite his bad boy reputation.
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New Harvest
Pub. Date
2013
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304 p. ; cm.
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"A bruisingly honest memoir of addiction and recovery from one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden shares the most intimate moments of his successes and failures, from endless self-destructive drug binges to three World Series rings. Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off of it, Gooden was a soft-spoken, dominating wunderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts while leading the...
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Michael Lewis's instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).
One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must
...11) Prince Fielder
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Chronicles the life of the first baseman, covering his youth as the son of major leaguer Cecil Fielder, his minor league career, and his accomplishments as a professional athlete.
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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39 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He became the first black baseball player on a major-league...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xvii, 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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A critically acclaimed sportswriter and culture critic presents this definitive biography of the Hall of Famer--and the record holder for the most stolen bases in a single game who also stole America's heart--who played for nine different teams throughouthis decades-long career.
14) Babe Ruth
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2008
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122 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Chronicles the life and achievements of Babe Ruth, who set a home-run record while playing for the New York Yankees and was among the first group of players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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Traces the life of the first black Major League baseball player of the modern era, detailing his childhood, his career as an MVP-award winning baseball player, and a hero of the civil rights movement.
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"The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; the score stood four to two with but one inning more to play." Thus begins one of the most famous poems in American history: Ernest L. Thayer's Casey at the Bat. When the powerful Mudville baseball team enters the ninth inning of their game behind by two runs, things seem pretty grim. And when the first two batters make outs, it looks like their best player, the mighty Casey, won't even...
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Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Tells the remarkable story of Larry Doby, the first Black baseball player in the American League, an unsung hero who in 1947 signed with the Cleveland Indians and went on to set amazing records that rendered him a seven-time All Star and launched him into the Hall of Fame.
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