Category: Baseball

Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Beaux Arts Editions : 1993

Seller ID: 01109166

ISBN-13: 9780883639672

Condition: Near Fine

378pp. 131 color plates and nearly 100 black and white illustrations. Small bump on bottom edge of front board, not apparent within Brodarted dust jacket.
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Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball

By: Ruth, Babe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications : 2011

Seller ID: 01109199

ISBN-13: 9780486476940

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Minor League Baseball Stars: Career Records of Players

By: SABR

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Society for American Baseball Research : 1992

Seller ID: 01090680

ISBN-13: 9780910137492

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: VG+

Baseball Gold: Mining Nuggets from Our National Pastime

By: Schlossberg, Dan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chicago, Triumph Books : 2007

Seller ID: 01109060

ISBN-13: 9781572439580

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Glorious Indian Summer of 1995: Season of Dreams...Cleveland

By: Schneider, Russell

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Russell Schneider Enterprises : 1996

Seller ID: 01129650

ISBN-13: 9780964981300

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (small fault)

Small, faint internal crease on front cover.
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The Mascots of 1911: The Year God Met the Devil in the World Series

By: Schroeder, Bob

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, iUniverse : 2008

Seller ID: 01090709

ISBN-13: 9780595464241

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

In 1911, Connie Mack and John McGraw-arguably baseball s all-time greatest managers-shaped the game as each pitch was thrown and every base was stolen. And they did it with the help of their quirky mascots and superstitious players. Set in the stadiums, trains, hotels and clubhouses of baseball s formative years, The Mascots of 1911 is peopled with brilliantly colorful characters. Author's personalized inscription on title page. Signed copies of this book are seldom seen.
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Blooper Man: The Rip Sewell Story

By: Smith, Elson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bellevue, J. Pohl Associates : 1981

Seller ID: 01090907

ISBN-13: 9780939332007

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sewell was a practitioner of the Eephus pitch. According to legend, in the 1946 All- Star game, Sewell threw one to Ted Williams, who swung and missed and asked for another. Sewell threw another high lobbing ball and Williams hit it out of the park.
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The Pitch That Killed: Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and the Pennant Race of 1920

By: Sowell, Mike

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. : 1989

Seller ID: 01090910

ISBN-13: 9780026124102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

The story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Mr. Sowell's book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to baseball's only death at bat. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Splendidly researched and vivid as today . . . remarkable." - Roger Kahn. 330pp. Author's personalized inscription ffep. On many lists for being in the top ten of all baseball books, quite scarce signed.
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1950 Baseball Record Book

By: Spink, J.G. Taylor, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Sporting News : 1950

Seller ID: 01090557

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sports Illustrated Book of Baseball

By: Sports Illustrated Eds.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Co. : 1958

Seller ID: 1146417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of the World's Most Storied Franchise

By: Stout, Glenn, and Richard A. Johnson

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co. : 2000

Seller ID: 01099953

ISBN-13: 9780395884171

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

472pp.
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Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of the World's Most Storied Franchise

By: Stout, Glenn, and Richard A. Johnson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co. : 2000

Seller ID: 01104589

ISBN-13: 9780395884171

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

473pp. More than 200 photos.
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Opening Day at Great American Ball Park

By: Stupp, Dann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sports Publishing : 2003

Seller ID: 01092132

ISBN-13: 9781582617244

Binding: Glossy Pictorial Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The beginning of a new age of Cincinnati Reds baseball is detailed in full-color splendor through this remarkable book. Opening Day at Great American Ball Park follows all of the activities of the inaugural Opening Day at Cincinnati's new home for baseball, as the Reds battled the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday, March 31, 2003. 159pp.
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The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912

By: Vaccaro, Mike

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday : 2009

Seller ID: 01110181

ISBN-13: 9780385526241

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

"Mike Vaccaro does not exaggerate when he says that 'the World Series was really born in 1912.' [He has] written a smart, lively account of the series that goes beyond the games themselves - though his accounts of all of them are vivid - to show how what happened during that series reflected what was happening in the nation." (The Washington Post). 304pp.
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