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# New Books # Old Standards 2007 from ✔ Indicates New/ First-Time Sale Offering Over 450 Titles Including 250 Offerings NEW ls ecia t Sp sit n vi cou Dis s and e b a l l as es & res l e a s a i l a dd c o m / b e R . ook E-m helf W B e your books ag e 4 NE For provid holars ls on P . sc Detai ww w THE PLAYERS AND THE MANAGERS ✔ 32HDR. BASEBALL YESTERDAY AND TODAY John Leventhal 90 color and 110 black and white photographs are juxtaposed to show the game as it is and as it was, with commentary on how the game has changed but also on how it has remained the same. 2007: 144 pages. (Voyageur) ✔ 32RJR. A WELL-PAID SLAVE; Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports Brad Snyder A complete account of Flood’s failed though influential suit against Major League Baseball, offering both a biography of the player and a defense of the pro-player fight of which he was a part. The book also explores the racism he experienced in his career. 2006: 480 pages. (Viking) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32PDR. THE ROCKET; Baseball Legend Roger Clemens Joseph Janczak A full profile of the Rocket’s career on and off the field and in Toronto, Boston, New York, and Houston, including thoughts from his teammates and opponents, and stats up to 2007. 2007: 320 pages, illustrated. (Potomac) List Price: $25.95 NOW: $8.95 ✔ 31H6R. JUICED; Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big Jose Canseco Canseco’s controversial look into the steroids in the game, now in paperback. 2006: 304 pages, illustrated in color. (HarperCollins) List Price: $26.95 SPECIAL: $21.55 List Price: $25.95 Denny McLain with Eli Zaret NOW: $7.95 ✔ 32NMR. CLEMENTE; The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero David Maraniss “Splendid . . . . A baseball-savvy book sensitive to the social context that made Clemente a leading indicator of baseball’s future. . . . Thanks to Maraniss, Clemente’s legacy is suitably defined and explained.” 2007: 416 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. Softcover. (Simon & Schuster) ✔ 32KYR. I TOLD YOU I WASN’T PERFECT McLain recalls not only his tremendous 1968 season in which he won 31 games but also his fall from glory that involved two prison terms and personal tragedies after he lost his ability to pitch. 2007: 416 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32UFR. DANNY LITWHILER; Living the Baseball Dream Danny Litwhiler with Jim Sargent Litwhiler recalls his notable eleven-anda-half-year career in the majors during which he played in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Boston with such greats as Steve Garvey, Dick Howser and many others, as well as his experiences with legends like Jackie Robinson and Enos Slaughter. He also tells about his off-the-field experiences as a coach, manager, instructor, player and manager in the minors and university baseball, and international goodwill ambassador. 2007: 312 pages, illustrated. (Temple) List Price: $15.00 SPECIAL: $11.95 www.scholarsbookshelf.com/baseball There are many additional NEW and previously announced Baseball books appearing on our website that you may want to examine. In addition, many new sale books are added between catalogs. If we have your e-mail address, you will be e-mailed the day that the new sale books are added to www.scholarsbookshelf.com/baseball We do not rent our e-mail addresses. List Price: $45.00 SPECIAL: $39.95 lack 2 THE PLAYERS AND THE MANAGERS 7 BASEBALL HISTORY 11 SPECIAL SEASONS 13 THE TEAMS 19 THE BALLPARKS 20 REFERENCE 21 THE MINOR LEAGUES 22 THE NEGRO LEAGUES 23 CROSSING THE LINE 23 LATIN-AMERICAN BASEBALL 24 BASEBALL DVDs 25 THE SCIENCE OF BASEBALL 25 THE LITERATURE OF BASEBALL 25 THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL 26 OTHER SPORTS 29 CLOSEOUTS ✔ 32WFR. LOST IN THE SUN; The Comebacks and Comedowns of Major League Ballplayers G. Richard McKelvey Focuses on players whose determination in the face of injury or private demons landed them back in the big leagues, as well as stars who never recovered. Tony Conigliaro, Monte Stratton, Pete Rose, Eddie Waitkus, Lou Brissie, and Sammy Sosa are among those profiled. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) C O N T E N T S Price: $29.95 ✔ 32WAR. SAL MAGLIE; Baseball’s Demon Barber Judith Testa “The book reveals as few others have the dual personality of the professional athlete. Testa’s achievement lies in depicting this man as a complete, full-dimensional human being. This book transcends its genre and is a fIrst-rate work of literature.” Donald Honig. 2007: 486 pages, 31 illustrations. (Northern Illinois) Price: $24.95 2 ✔ New Offerings THE PLAYERS AND THE MANAGERS ✔ 32FLR. MICKEY MANTLE; Stories and Memorabilia from a Lifetime with the Mick Mickey Herskowitz and Danny and David Mantle The first illustrated biography of the Mick covers his entire life with rare photos and memorabilia, ten reproduced in pull-out removable facsimiles.Includes memorable stories collected over the years by the author and Mantle’s sons. 2007: 176 pages, 75 color and black and white illustrations. (Stewart, Tabori, & Chang) ✔ 32LUR. PRIDE AND PINSTRIPES; The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life’s Challenges Mel Stottlemyre The Yankee star recounts his five decades in the majors, what it was like to play with Mantle, Ford, Maris, Munson, and the greats of his time, working for Steinbrenner, and his life on and off the field. 2007: 304 pages, illustrated. (HarperEntertainment) List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 Price: $35.00 ✔ 365WR. THE PLAYER; Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century Philip Seib The life and times of the legendary pitcher, example to his fans and the youth of America, and his place in the America of Teddy Roosevelt, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald who, among thousands, were devoted fans. 2004: 198 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Avalon) ✔ 32FYR. BRANCH RICKEY; A Biography Murray Polner Revised edition of this definitive account of Rickey and his achievements, now including updates and revisions, new photographs, a new Preface and a new Foreword by Branch B. Rickey. 2007: 274 pages, softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 List Price: $24.00 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32WGR. MORE GHOSTS IN THE GALLERY; Another Sixteen Little-Known Greats at Cooperstown David L. Fleitz Full biographies of 16 Hall of Famers from baseball’s distant past and Negro League greats (Hilton Smith) and pre-Negro League greats such as Cristobal Torriente and Smokey Joe Williams, along with such big leaguers as Tommy McCarthy, Joe Kelley, Sam Rice, Kiki Cuyler, Arky Vaughan, and many others. 2007: 264 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32QFR. BRANCH RICKEY; Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman Lee Lowenfish The full story of the man who revolutionized baseball, creating the farm system, bringing up Jackie Robinson, and thrusting baseball into the forefront of the civil rights movement. “Lowenfish captures all the intrigue, personal animosities, and political machinations loose in baseball . . . and captures the intensity of the times.” Richard Crepeau. 2007: 686 pages, illustrated. (Nebraska) List Price: $34.95 SPECIAL: $29.95 ✔ 32TBR. THE BIG BAM; The Life and Times of Babe Ruth Leigh Montville Based on newly discovered documents and interviews, including pages from Ruth’s personal scrapbooks, this is a fresh biography of the Babe from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his career in professional baseball and iconic figure of his age. 2007: 400 pages, softcover. (Random House) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32LJR. MUSIAL; From Stash to Stan the Man James N. Giglio The most complete assessment of Musial’s life and career to date places the star in the context of Depression, wartime, and postwar America, details his great career on the field, and also presents him as a leader in every aspect of the game. 25 illustrations. 2007: 360 pages. Softcover. (Missouri) Price: $19.95 List Price: $15.95 338BR. Also available in Hardcover 2001: 360 pages. (Missouri) SPECIAL: $12.95 32CNR. Also available in Hardcover. 2006: 400 pages. (Doubleday) List Price: $34.95 SALE PRICE: $24.95 List Price: $26.95 SALE PRICE: $21.95 ✔ 32MUR. MY FATHER’S GAME; Life, Death, Baseball Rick Wilber Major league catcher and manager and scout Del Wilber’s son relates the joys and hardships of a big-league dad and father. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) 308KR. THE LIFE THAT RUTH BUILT; A Biography Marshall Smelser “One of the best sports biographies ever; Smelser beautifully evokes the life of baseball’s most wondrous player and the times he lived in.” Donald Honig. 608 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32RAR. NO GREATER LOVE; Life Lessons from the Men Who Saved Baseball Todd Anton Players like Don Newcombe, Dom DiMaggio, Gerry Coleman, Johnny Pesky, and many others, including broadcasters Ernie Harwell and Vin Scully, tell how they felt about their services and how their wartime experience changed them as players and as men. 2007: 320 pages, softcover. (Rounder) List Price: $20.00 SALE PRICE: $5.95 Address for orders and inquiries Price: $18.95 ✔ 32GWR. PERFECT; Don Larsen’s Pitching Miracle and the Men Who Made It Happen Lew Paper How players like Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Duke Snyder, Gil Hodges, and Jackie Robinson were affected in one way or another by Larsen’s unique achievement. 2007: 240 pages. (Lyons) 110 Melrich Road Cranbury, NJ 08512 Telephone: 1 609-395-6933 Fax: 1 609-395-0755 e-mail Address: books@scholarsbookshelf.com Secure Website: www.scholarsbookshelf.com/baseball Price: $22.95 ✔ New Offerings 3 THE PLAYERS AND THE MANAGERS ✔ 32PAR. TRIS SPEAKER; The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend Timothy M. Gay A modern biography of the .345 career hitter and star centerfielder. 2007: 344 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Lyons) ✔ 338PR. TED WILLIAMS; A Baseball Life Michael Seidel A critical portrait of Williams which suggests why , in spite of his virtuosity at the plate, he does not belong on any all-time all-star team as a wellrounded player who could run, throw, field, hit, and hit with power. “Seidel’s work should stand the test of time as an accurate, even-handed portrait.” Library Journal. 2001: 432 pages, 21 photographs. Softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $16.95 32BPR. Also available in Hardcover. 2006: 368 pages, illustrated. (Nebraska) List Price: $27.95 SALE PRICE: $24.95 List Price: $18.95 NOW: $5.95 ✔ 32PCR. SPITTING ON DIAMONDS; A Spitball Pitcher’s Journey to the Major Leagues, 1911-1919 Clyde H. Hogg The story of Bradley Hogg who began his major-league pitching career in 1911 when a pitcher could spit on, shine up, and even roughen the ball, and how he represented the pitchers of the dead ball era as a spitball pitcher in leagues from coast to coast between 1910 and 1920. 35 vintage illustrations. 2007: 344 pages. (Missouri) ✔ 32KWR. HITTER;The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams Ed Linn Provides many new insights into Williams’s life on and off the field, including his charitable activities, on-an-off relationship with the Boston press, his constant support ofr the underdog, his troubled childhood, his war service, and much more. 1994: 373 pages, softcover. (Harvest) List Price: $16.00 Bill Nowlin NOW: $6.95 List Price: $34.95 NOW: $19.95 31P8R. TED WILLIAMS AT WAR The story of the only Hall of Fame ballplayer to see military service in two wars as a U.S. Marine fighter pilot. 2006: 368 pages, illustrated. (Rounder) ✔ 32URR. TY AND THE BABE; The Incredible Saga of Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals, the Forging of a Surprising Friendship, and the Battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship Tom Stanton The story of the mutual appreciation and compelling rivalry between the two baseball stars, focusing on their series of 1941 golf matches when they faced off for charity. 2007: 288 pages, illustrations. (St. Martin’s) Price: $24.95 ✔ 360PR. TED WILLIAMS; Reflections on a Splendid Life Lawrence Baldassaro, Editor Collects the best writing about Williams by Robert Creamer, Red Smith, Bob Considine, Arthur Daley, John Updike, Dave Anderson, David Halberstam, Stephen Jay Gould and many others who recount his life and achievements on and off the field, his unique and controversial personality, his lasting legacy to baseball, and the conflicting views about him that his fans and other observers expressed. 2003: 252 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Northeastern) List Price: $23.95 SPECIAL: $19.20 ✔ 32MWR. DAZZY VANCE; A Biography of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Famer John C. Skipper The definitive book on Vance’s life and career as a pitcher draws on conversations with his family, friends, sport writers, and teammates. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $20.00 NOW: $9.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ 32MYR. YASTRZEMSKI Carl Yastrzemski The autobiography of the Red Sox star whose 23-year career included playing with Williams and Fisk and was characterized by his clutch hitting and fielding and devotion to the game. 2007: 256 pages. (Rugged Land) ✔ 32NWR. THE VOICE; Mel Allen’s Untold Story Curt Smith An in-depth account of the rise, fall, and comeback of one of the most compelling figures in baseball history. 2007: 320 pages, illustrated. (Lyons) List Price: $34.95 SPECIAL: $27.95 ✔ 32HKR. YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST; Players Recall Their Big-League Debuts Josh Lewin Tony Gwynn, Greg Maddux, A-Rod, Barry Bonds, Jim Palmer, and Don Sutton are among the more than 100 players who recall their first games, sometimes their first hits, sometimes their difficulties getting to the park on short notice, but always the excitement of the day. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Potomac) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32XER. RED; A Biography of Red Smith Ira Berkow Covers the life of the great sportswriter from his first story for the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1927 to his last column for the New York Times five days before his death in 1982, showing his wit, clarity, and eloquence, and discussing the many people who appeared in his writings. 2007: 320 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $16.95 31YQR. WICKED CURVE; The Life and Troubled Times of Grover Cleveland Alexander John C. Skipper Covers Alexander’s great career and also discusses his struggle with alcoholism, epilepsy, and personal demons. 2006: 176 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $18.95 3824R. VOICES OF SUMMER; Baseball’s Greatest Announcers Curt Smith Profiles of Russ Hodges, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell, and a hundred other distinguished men who created baseball announcing in their own unique styles. 2005: 352 pages, softcover. (Carroll & Graf) Price: $15.95 Price: $28.50 4 ✔ New Offerings THE PLAYERS AND THE MANAGERS 31L3R. FRANK “HOME RUN” BAKER; Hall of Famer and World Series Hero Barry Sparks Traces Baker’s rise into the majors and his famed contract dispute with Connie Mack. Illustrated. 2006: 256 pages, softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 31XMR. BASEBALLS BONUS BABIES; Conversations with 24 High-Priced Ballplayers Signed from 1953 to 1957 Brent Kelley Focuses on players signed under the strict bonus rule of 1953-1957. 2006. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 345TR. YOGI BERRA; An American Original New York Daily News The most complete collection of Berra materials ever published with more than 200 classic photos, a complete account of his career, and the unforgettable comments on the game. 218 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”, softcover. (Sports Publishing) List Price: $17.95 SALE PRICE: $4.95 312BR. LOU BOUDREAU; Covering All the Bases, 2nd Ed. Lou Boudreau and Russell Schneider The personal story of one of baseball’s great players, managers, and broadcasters. 8 pages of photos. Autographed. 203 pages. (Sagamore) ✔ 32WHR. EDDIE COLLINS; A Baseball Biography Rick Huhn The definitive biography of the star of the Philadelphia Athletics between 1906 and 1914, his connection with the White Sox scandal, and his 27-year career. 2007. Illustrations. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $24.95 David L. Fleitz SALE PRICE: $6.95 31L2R. CAP ANSON; The Grand Old Man of Baseball The life and times of Cap from Marshalltown, Iowa to super-star status, and the growth of the game during his time. 2005: 328 pages, softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $35.00 ✔ 32WJR. HENRY CHADWICK; A Baseball Biography Andrew Schiff A biography of the pioneering baseball journalist and author, innovator of scorekeeping practices and statistics, and chairman of the first rules committee and hall of Famer. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) 31M3R. DEADBALL STARS OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE David Jones, Editor Features more than 140 players and personalities from 1901-1919, including Ty Cobb, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and Smokey Joe Wood and their era when bunting, stealing, and the old style ball were features of the game. 2006: 416 pages, 200 illustrations. (Potomac) Price: $29.95 33WWR. TY COBB Charles C. Alexander The classic biography. “Impressive. A fascinating analysis of Cobb’s personality.” The New York Times. 2006: 288 pages, softcover. (Southern Methodist) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $19.95 ✔ 370QR. DEADBALL STARS OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE Tom Simon, Editor Features more than 140 players and personalities from the days of ThreeFinger Brown, Christy Mathewson, and Honus Wagner, when the stolen base and the sacrifice were a manager’s key weapons. Published in association with The Society for American Baseball Research. 2004: 368 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Softcover. (Brassey’s) Price: $17.95 ✔ 32XXR. TY COBB; Safe at Home Don Rhodes Drawing on interviews with Cobb’s two daughters, this is the first biography to explore fully Cobb both on and off the field, tracing hi emotional troubles, not the least of which came when his mother was tried for murdering his father. Many unusual photos. 2007: 224 pages.Softcover. (Lyons) List Price: $24.95 NOW: $8.95 Price: $15.95 31YDR. DESIGNATED HEBREW; The Ron Blomberg Story Ron Blomberg and Dan Schlossberg Blomberg’s unique career in his first-person account and how he was not only the first significant Jewish Yankee but how New York’s Jewish population embraced him. 2006: 250 pages, illustrated. (Sports Publishing) 32FGR. PEACH; Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours Richard Bak Account of possibly baseball’s greatest player. Includes 150 rarely seen photographs. 2006: 208 pages. (Ann Arbor) Price: $26.95 List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $19.95 ✔ New Offerings 5 31E2R. “EE-YAH”; The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Smiles The story of the player and manager who came out of the Pennsylvania coal mine country to fame with the 1894 Baltimore Orioles and the early twentieth-century Tigers, and remained an iconic figure for kids pursuing a dream in baseball. 2005: 216 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) 31YNR. JOHNNY KLING; A Baseball Biography Gil Bogen The story of this indispensable player on the Cubs teams that won four National League pennants between 1906 and 1910. 2006: 264 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 3305R. TONY LAZZERI; A Baseball Biography Paul Votano A complete biography of the hitter who struggled against a poverty-stricken childhood, epilepsy, and other obstacles to become an all-time hitting champion before his early death. 2004: 208 pages, illustrated. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32GDR. RED FABER; A Biography of the Hall of Fame Spitball Pitcher Brian E. Cooper The first full biography of the pitcher who won a record three Worlds Series games in 1917 for the Chicago White Sox, and who remains one of the oldest players ever to wear a major league uniform. 2007: 279 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $28.50 30F4R. JOHN MC GRAW Charles C. Alexander “. . . illuminates not only the man but the transformation of America and its national pastime between 1890 and 1930.” 376 pages, 29 photos. Softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $29.95 SALE PRICE: $3.95 Price: $29.95 31U6R. MONEY PITCHER; Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation William C. Kashatus The story of this Chippewa Indian and one of baseball’s most talented pitchers, owner of 212 wins and more than 1,700 strikeouts and the first American Indian elected to the Hall of Fame. The book traces not only his success but the disrespect and corruption Bender and his teams encountered. 2006: 176 pages, 38 illustrations. (Penn State) 31YPR. WHITEY FORD; A Biography Miles Coverdale, Jr. The biography of the Hall of Fame Yankee lefthander, how he worked his way up through the Yankee organization, and pitched for sixteen seasons. 2006. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 369WR. JIMMIE FOXX; The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967 W. Harrison Daniel The full story of one of the most consistent stars of the Major Leagues. “This much-needed comprehensive biography on Foxx is a fine addition to baseball literature.” Sports Collector’s Digest. 2004: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32WLR. “SWISH” NICHOLSON; A Baseball Biography of a Wartime Slugger Robert A. Greenberg The first biography of baseball’s leader in home runs and RBIs during the World War II era, playing for the Philadelphia Athletics, the Phillies, and other teams until he became the oldest member of the 1950 Whiz Kids. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $28.50 3218R. WAITE HOYT; A Biography of the Yankees’ Schoolboy Wonder William A. Cook Price: $29.95 Covers Hoyt’s long career in baseball and the many great moments associated with it including his long association with 367XR. NINETY FEET FROM FAME; Close Calls Babe Ruth, his career on the mound and as a Cincinnati announcer, his triumph over alcoholism and his induction into the with Baseball Immortality Hall of Fame. 2004: 248 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Michael Robbins The stories of a host of near legends buried by circumstance, Price: $29.95 bad luck, or bad timing, like Hal Smith, Chuck Hiller, Harlond 372MR. I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW; Clift, Jose Cruz, Sr, Smokey Joe Wood, Eiji Sawamura and Ryne Duren Talks from the Heart About Life, dozens of others who played in unsuitable parks, suffered injuries, were dragged down by the poor clubs they played with, Baseball, and Alcohol met early deaths, or otherwise failed to meet their potential due Ryne Duren to outside events. 2004: 320 pages, softcover. (Carroll & Graf) The owner of that terrifying fast ball recalls his great days in the List Price: $15.00 SALE PRICE: $6.95 game, especially at the All-Star and World Series games, his serious alcohol problem, and his eventual triumph over it. 2003: 31L4R. ORATOR O’ROURKE; The Life of a Baseball 244 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Aventine Press) Price: $16.95 Radical ✔ 32WKR. SHOELESS; The Life and Times of Joe Jackson David L. Fleitz Jackson’s colorful life from the days when he was a child laborer in a South Carolina textile mill through his early experiences as the star of the Brandon Mill team at age 13, earning $2.50 a game, and on to the years with the A’s and the 1919 World Series scandal, as well as his life after baseball. LARGE PRINT EDITION. 2007: 320 pages, illus. Softcover. (McFarland) Mike Roer A portrait of Jim O’Rourke drawn from his own correspondence and materials in the National Baseball Library. 2006: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 369BR. PETE REISER; The Rough-and-Tumble Career of the Perfect Ballplayer Sidney Jacobson The full story of Reiser’s career and why he failed to fulfill his enormous potential, with material on the big league baseball of his day and the conditions under which the players lived, worked, and played. 2004: 224 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $29.95 6 ✔ New Offerings PLAYERS & MANAGERS ✔ 32WMR. SAM RICE; A Biography of the Washington Senators Hall of Famer Jeff Carroll Rice accumulated 2,987 base hits during his tragedy-marked career, and eventually made it to the Hall of Fame. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 3890R. SIZZLER; George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great Rick Huhn Sisler’s life, illustrious career, the players of his generation, who included Cobb, Ruth, and Hornsby, his two seasons hitting above .400, and his mysterious fading from baseball’s collective consciousness despite being regarded as one of the greatest players ever. 2005: 320 pages, illustrated. (Missouri) Price: $29.95 31P0R. SULTANS OF SWAT; The Four Great Sluggers of the New York Yankees The New York Times It’s Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle as their careers were covered by The New York Times with classic photos, stats, accounts of games and exploits, obituaries, and more. 2006: 288 pages, illustrated. (St. Martin’s) BASE’BALL HISTORY ✔ 32MJR. THE ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE; Ban Johnson and the 1901 Challenge to National League Monopoly Warren N. Wilbert The story of how, in 1901, Johnson and Charles Comisky launched the Western League which laid the foundations for the American League. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $29.95 SALE PRICE: $23.95 32DLR. THREE FINGER; The Mordecai Brown Story Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown The story of how Brown responded to the Mafia’s 1908 threats to kill him if he pitched and beat the Giants in that year’s World Series, his courage and resolve, and his career in professional baseball both before and after that Series. 2006: 288 pages, illustrated. (Nebraska) Price: $29.95 List Price: $26.95 SALE PRICE: $24.95 32CMR. MICKEY VERNON; The Gentleman First Baseman Rich Westcott A complete biography of the exceptional fielder, member of seven All-Star teams, and twentyyear player with 2,495 hits. 2006: 240 pages, 50 illustrations. (Camino) ✔ 32GFR. BASEBALL BARNSTORMING AND EXHIBITION GAMES, 1901-1962; A History of OffSeason Major League Play Thomas Barthel Covers barnstorming, decade-bydecade, with material on the teams, the games, and the players, and why it was so important for players trying to earn a living in the game. 2007: 283 pages, softcover. Illustrated. (McFarland) Price: $24.95 Price: $29.95 32FAR. THE VIEW FROM THE DUGOUT; The Journals of Red Rolfe William M. Anderson, Editor Rolfe’s journals from his years managing the Tigers from 1949 to 1952 show what a manager is thinking when he’s on the job with a great team. 2006: 360 pages, illus. Softcover. (Michigan) ✔ 32HQR. BASEBALL; A History of America’s Favorite Game George Vecsey The New York Times’s sports columnist presents an erudite history of the game, with unique insights and anecdotes about its iconic moments and figures. 2007: 224 pages. (Modern Library) Price: $22.95 List Price: $21.95 SPECIAL: $17.55 ✔ 32WNR. BIG ED WALSH; The Life and Times of a Spitballing Hall of Famer Jack Smiles How Walsh emerged from the Pennsylvania coal mines to become one of the Deadball Era’s greatest pitchers and eventually became a Hall of Famer. Includes a discussion of the spitter and how it affected his fortunes and his arm. 2007. Illustrated. (McFarland) ✔ 32MRR. BASEBALL AND THE BLAME GAME; Scapegoating in the Major Leagues John Billheimer Documents some of the most muffed moments and botched plays in baseball history as recounted by the players involved with them and how they affected their careers. 75 photos. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $35.00 ✔ New Offerings 7 BASEBALL HISTORY ✔ 32AWR. BASEBALL AT TULANE UNIVERSITY S. Derby Gisclair Tulane saw Louisiana’s first intercollegiate sporting event in 1888 when its team faced off against the LSU in Baton Rouge team, and the game has thrived there ever since. Nearly 200 vintage photographs depict the game and its expansion at Tulane. 2006: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32XPR. BLACK AND BLUE; The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series That Stunned America Tom Adelman Nobody expected the Orioles to win, but dominating pitching shredded the Dodger lineup and held them scoreless for the last 33 innings of the Series. 2007: 288 pages.(Little, Brown) Price: $19.99 Price: $24.95 ✔ 32JJR. THE BASEBALL CHRONICLE; A Year-by-Year History of Major League Baseball David Nemec, et al. From Wee Willie Keeler to Slammin’ Sammy Sosa, this book includes more than 1400 color and black and white photos as well as annual stats for every season, including record-setting performances, pennant races and World Series, battling leaders, MVPs, and other award winners as well as much more. 2003: 672 pages. (Publications International) ✔ 31N1R. BLOOD FEUD; The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime A fresh look at the famed rivalry, drawing on history, interviews, and fan input. 2005: 240 pages, softcover. (Rounder) Price: $16.95 NOW: $18.95 ✔ 32GUR. THE BASEBALL FANATIC; The Best Things Ever Said about America’s Favorite Pastime Louis Rubin, Jr., Editor Baseball’s greats, and many others, supply the great quotes and anecdotes about the game and its memories for them. Includes Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Willie Mays, Mark McGwire and many more. 2007: 504 pages, softcover. (Lyons) ✔ 32FXR. BRITISH BASEBALL AND THE WEST HAM CLUB; A History of a 1930s Professional Team in East London Josh Chetwynd and Brian A. Belton Traces the history of baseball in Britain concentrating on this one particularly successful team, discussing its management, major players, and fans. Includes statistical appendixes. 2007: 272 pages, illustrations. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $12.95 ✔ 353FR. BASEBALL HISTORY FROM OUTSIDE THE LINES; A Reader John E. Dreifort, Editor Gathers studies of the game’s social and cultural aspects ranging from the entry of ethnic groups into baseball to such topics as labor relations and the westward move of teams, baseball as a business, amateurs, women, and international play. 2001: 363 pages, softcover. (Illinois) Price: $29.95 ✔ 3811R. BRUSHBACKS AND KNOCKDOWNS; The Greatest Baseball Debates in Two Centuries Allen Barra Who was better, Ruth or Bonds. Who was the greatest lefthander of all time. “How Bud Selig Almost Suckered You Into Ruining the Baseball Season,” and many other probing looks at baseball fact and fantasy. 2005: 304 pages, softcover. (Griffin) List Price: $24.95 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32GER. BASEBALL IN PHILADELPHIA; A History of the Early Game, 1831-1900 John Shiffert Starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and goes on to trace baseball in this city through the early teams, including the first great African American team, the Pythians, and on up to the great days of the championship Philadelphia Athletic Club from 1860 through the national Association Years. 2006: 288 pages, softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $13.95 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32PFR. BURYING THE BLACK SOX; How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded Gene Carney The full story, with an analysis of Commissioner Landis’s actions. “If you read only one book on the 1919 World Series, it should be Burying the Black Sox.” Chicago Daily Herald. 2007: 380 pages, softcover. Illustrated. (Potomac) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32GBR. BEFORE THE CURSE; The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918 Troy Soos A revised and updated edition of this history of baseball in New England, its folk beginnings, its great teams and the coming of professionalism, and the early championship years during the 1910s. 84 photographs. 2006: 226 pages, softcover. (McFarland) Price: $17.95 ✔ 31M4R. Also available in Hardcover 2006. (Potomac) Price: $29.95 List Price: $26.95 SALE PRICE: $21.95 ✔ 32XRR. THE BEST GAME EVER; Pirates 10, Yankees 9, October 13, 1960 Jim Reisler Clemente and Mazeroski take on Mantle, Berra, Ford, and Maris, and win on the only walk-off home run ever to decide a World Series. 2007: 304 pages. (Avalon) ✔ 32WPR. THE COOPERSTOWN SYMPOSIUM ON BASEBALL AND AMERICAN CULTURE, 2005-2006 William M. Simons, Editor Selected papers from the 12006 and 1007 meetings of this symposium, and presenting the very latest research and ideas about the business of baseball, baseball and community, the African American experience, the women’s game, baseball ideology, and a range of other topics. 2007: 299 pages. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $25.99 ✔ 30C9R. THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF BASEBALL Donal Dewey and Nicholas Acocella Entertainingly and accurately records the personalities, failures, and achievements of more than 1,500 players, managers, owners, front office executives, journalist/writers, and fans who have had an impact on the sport. 533 pages. (Carroll & Graf) ✔ 3802R. DAMNED YANKEES, DAMNED SOX; Inside America’s Most Enduring Rivalry, from the Babe to Bucky, from Pesky to Pedro and Beyond Mike Vaccaro The whole tale of the greatest rivalry in sport history, with new light on the glory and fierce competition that has obsessed the teams and their fans for nearly a century. 2005: 224 pages, illustrated. (Doubleday) List Price: $27.50 NOW: $8.95 List Price: $24.95 NOW: $14.95 8 ✔ New Offerings BASEBALL HISTORY ✔ 366YR. A DAY IN THE BLEACHERS Arnold Hano The Fiftieth Anniversary edition of the author’s “The Catch,” his unmatched account of the opening game of the 1954 World Series, from warmups and batting practice through inning-byinning strategies and on to May’s epochal catch. 2004: 176 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Da Capo) ✔ 32JKR. GROWING UP WITH BASEBALL; How We Loved and Played the Game Gary Land An anecdotal history of America’s pastime from the 1930s to the 1990s showing how the game was played, watched, and lived by everyday people in the cities and parks as well as by the radios and TVs of the nation. 2004: 194 pages. (Nebraska) List Price: $16.95 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32JQR. DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH; The Untold History of Baseball Joel Zodd and John Bowman 80 rare archival illustrations are included in this fresh history which uncovers an abundance of baseball lore from the entire history of the game. 2004: 437 pages. Softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $25.00 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32XWR. HAUNTED BASEBALL; Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon An anthology of the best eerie stories about baseball as collected by players, stadium personnel, umpires, officials, and fans exploring the sometimes spooky connections between baseball and the paranormal, including haunted hotels, the poltergeist who frequents the Anaheim Angels visitor’s clubhouse, and the posthumous return of Tom Yawkey to Fenway. 2007: 288 pages, softcover. (Lyons) List Price: $19.95 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32HUR. THE ECHOING GREEN; The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager The full and fascinating story of the great event, with new material on how the Giants were reading the Dodgers’ catcher’s signs as well as why the famed home run had such an impact on the lives of the players and baseball in America. 2007: 496 pages, 40 pages of illustrations. (Pantheon) Price: $14.95 ✔ 347UR. HEARTBREAKERS; Baseball’s Most Agonizing Defeats John Kuenster A veteran baseball writer recalls 15 disasters from the last halfcentury and looks at them from the loser’s point of view, setting the scene, surveying the players involved, and telling the stories the games involved. 20 illus. 288 p. Softcover. (Ivan R. Dee) Price: $26.95 ✔ 32QBR. ESPN PLAYS OF THE WEEK; The 365 Wildest, Weirdest, Most Unforgettable SportsCenter Highlights of All Time Recaptures more than 25 years of eye-popping, mind-blowing sports highlights from this network, and covering baseball as well as other sports. Includes a DVD replaying many of these jump-off-the-couchers. 2007: 384 pages. (ESPN) List Price: $16.95 NOW: $3.95 ✔ 3789R. A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN BASEBALL; Time and Game Joe Clark The first book to record the 125year history of the game as it was brought far from home and grew to be a professionally structured pastime performing around the world. 2003: 187 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $29.95 SPECIAL: $23.95 ✔ 32LLR. THE FALL CLASSIC; The Definitive History of the World Series Eric Enders A large format, year-by-year encyclopedic reference packed with fascinating sidebars and hundreds of remarkable photographs of the legends, great moments, and parks. 2007: 352 pages, 10 1/4” x 12”. 500 color and back and white photographs. (Sterling) List Price: $29.95 NOW: $8.95 ✔ 32GHR. JEWS AND BASEBALL; Entering the American Mainstream, 1871-1948 Burton A. Boxerman Shows how, long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball’s greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique and very close relationship with the American pastime as immigrants arrived in this country and the Jewish community produced a huge number of fans and students of the game. 2007: 222 pages, illustrated. (McFarland) List Price: $19.95 Pat Jordan SPECIAL: $15.95 ✔ 32BUR. A FALSE SPRING Traces his once-promising pitching career, illuminating his personal struggles and his quest for maturity. “One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.” Times. 2006: 288 pages, illus. Softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $17.95 Price: $39.95 ✔ 32XCR. A GAME OF BRAWL; The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant Bill Felber An account of what was probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history when players like John McGraw, wee Willie Keeler, and “Foxy” Ned Hanlon used some pretty nasty tactics that met with fan disapproval and gave the pennant race a special air. 2007: 320 pages, 21 illustrations. (Nebraska) ✔ 353BR. LATE INNINGS; A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 Dean A. Sullivan, Editor More than 100 contemporary documents illuminate everything from Jackie Robinson’s assault on the color barrier to Roger Maris’s record home run year, as well as the controversies, issues of expansion, effects of television, and other conditions that were involved with post-war baseball. 2002. Softcover. (Illinois) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32HYR. A GREAT DAY IN COOPERSTOWN; The Improbable Birth of Baseball’s Hall of Fame Jim Reisler Celebrates baseball’s first century and the unique museum which honors it, showing how the establishment of the Hall of Fame was as much an attempt to revive the economy of Cooperstown as it was a tribute to the National Pastime and how it went on to become what it is today. 2007: 240 pages. Softcover. (Carroll & Graf) List Price: $29.95 NOW: $8.95 SPECIALS! E-mail Address – if we have yours, you will be immediately notified of Discount Specials and New and Forthcoming titles at www.scholarsbookshelf.com/baseball Price: $15.95 ✔ New Offerings 9 BASEBALL HISTORY ✔ 32NNR. THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN; Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved Fay Vincent An oral history of baseball based on the memories of ten notable players including Elden Auker, Tommy Henrich, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Bob Feller, Larry Doby, Ralph Kiner, and others, all of whom recall their memories and testify to their love for the game. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Simon & Schuster) ✔ 32WQR. AUGUST “GARRY” HERRMANN; A Baseball Biography William A. Cook A biography of the political figure who, with George B. Cox and Cincinnati mayor Julius Fleischmann, bought the Cincinnati Reds in 1903 and went on to become a leader in major league baseball, introducing many new ideas in league organization and baseball management as the game entered the new century. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32GPR. WHEN JOHNNY CAME SLIDING HOME; The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870 William J. Ryczek A full history of the game in the late 1860s, covering the fields, crowds, strategies, rules, style of play, and the attempts to organize a national championship. The author discusses the Washington nationals’ pioneering 1867 tour and the Cincinnati Red Stockings’ undefeated 1869 season. 2007: 323 pages, illustrated. (McFarland) List Price: $14.00 Charlie Metro SPECIAL: $11.20 ✔ 353CR. SAFE BY A MILE The story of Metro, the great scout and teacher, who ran the gamut from baseball player to coach, manager, scout, inventor and more in both the majors and the minors from the 1940s to the 1980s, and whose career mirrors in a special way the changes in modern baseball. 2002: 537 pages, softcover. (Illinois) List Price: $29.95 NOW: $8.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ 32RDR. SMITHSONIAN BASEBALL; Inside the World’s Finest Private Collections Stephen Wong Features 350 full color photographs from 21 of the best private collections of baseball memorabilia, with many historically significant artifacts never before seen by the public. 2007: 268 pages. Softcover. (CollinsReference) ✔ 32WTR. BASE BALL ON THE WESTERN RESERVE; The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town James M. Egan, Jr. Combines author commentary with firsthand accounts of one of the earliest and most active baseball scenes outside the East Coast. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 List Price: $21.95 2005. (HarperCollins) SPECIAL: $17.55 SALE PRICE: $23.95 31J0R. Also available in Hardcover List Price: $29.95 330UR. BASEBALL: America’s Diamond Mind Richard C. Crepeau A look at the interrelationship of the development of baseball and society during the twenties, the Depression, and the thirties, showing why it was a golden age both for sports and the sportswriter. 240 p., illus. Softcover. (Nebraska) ✔ 32FPR. SOUL OF THE GAME; An Illustrated Celebration of the National League, 1946-1960 Andy Jurinka 300 color illustrations celebrate the National League and its great players and ballparks. Includes eight classic articles from SPORT magazine. 2007: 224 pages, 8 1/2” x10 7/8”. (Sportclassic) List Price: $13.95 SALE PRICE: $4.95 31U3R. BLACK AND BLUE; The Golden Arm, the Robinson Boys, and the 1966 World Series that Stunned America Tom Adelman The clash between the LA Dodgers and the underdog Baltimore Orioles, and how and why the O’s shredded the Dodgers in a series that saw Koufax’s last game as well as star performances by Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, Don Drysdale, Maury Wills, and others. 2006: 304 pages, illus. (Little, Brown) Price: $29.95 ✔ 31WQR. SPALDING’S WORLD TOUR; The Audacious Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America’s Game Mark Lamster Spalding’s 1888 tour around the world with two baseball teams, promoting the game and opening markets for Spalding’s products. Recounts games played before the famous and powerful in famed places, and tells the stories of the scrapes and near international incidents the men got into. 2006: 320 pages, illus. (Public Affairs) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $19.95 32BJR. BURY MY HEART AT COOPERSTOWN; Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball Frank Russo and Gene Racz An entertaining and colorful look at the unusual, untimely, and sometimes touching final at-bats of hundreds of players, one fatally bitten by a snake, one gunned down by his jilted lover, and all the victims of murders, accidents, alcoholism, STDs, or other tragedies. 2006: 224 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Triumph) List Price: $26.00 NOW: $8.95 ✔ 367ER. TAKING IN A GAME; A History of Baseball in Asia Joseph A. Reaves Examines the development of baseball in Korea, the Philippines, mainland China and Taiwan, as well as Japan, with an entertaining account going all the way back to the Qing dynasty. 2004: 248 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $14.95 31A1R. THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES W.C. Madden and John E. Peterson The story of this annual event since it was started in 1950 in Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium, and its many dramatic games and series. 200 photos. 2005: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $19.99 List Price: $16.95 32AKR. DETROIT ACES; The First 75 Years Mark Rucker The long history of baseball in Detroit from the days of its first major league team, the Wolverines and on to pennants and great players. 200 vintage photos. 2006: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) NOW: $3.95 ✔ 353ER. Also available in Hardcover 2002. (Illinois) List Price: $29.95 NOW: $8.95 Price: $19.99 10 ✔ New Offerings BASEBALL HISTORY ✔ 32HJR. HOME RUN; The Definitive History of Baseball’s Ultimate Weapon David Vincent The recognized master of home run studies and statistics presents the long and colorful history of the evolution of the four-bagger, its explosion under Ruth, the great home run races, the effects of rules and the juiced ball, its statistical history, and more. 2007: 304 pages, illustrations. (Potomac) List Price: $26.95 SPECIAL: $21.55 342KR. THE MIDSUMMER CLASSIC; The Complete History of Baseball’s All-Star Game David Vincent, Lyle Spatz, and David W. Smith The most thorough book to date on the All-Star Game, its history since 1933, and individual games. All are profiled with play-by-play, complete roster information, expanded box scores, and an array of statistical lists never compiled before. 2001: 612 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $35.00 SALE PRICE: $8.95 309CR. MY GREATEST DAY IN BASEBALL John P. Carmichael Presents 47 famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Includes Ty Cobb, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, many others. 264 pages, 100 photos. Softcover. (Nebraska) SPECIAL SEASONS ✔ 32RQR. CRAZY ‘08; How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Cait Murphy Ty Cobb prowled the outfield, Christy Matthewson was on the mound and Tinker, Evers, and Chance ruled the Chicago infield in a tumultuous year that resonates today. 2007: 272 pages. (CollinsReference) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $6.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 List Price: $12.95 310RR. A PICTURE POSTCARD HISTORY OF BASEBALL Ron Menchine A graphic history of baseball from the 1900s to the 1950s in 230 postcards, all reproduced full size and accompanied by captions that describe the players, teams, and ball parks depicted. Also includes historical information and data for the collector. 144 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Softcover. (Almar) ✔ 367CR. FIVE SEASONS; A Baseball Companion Roger Angell Angell’s probing analysis of the game in the critical years from 1972 through 1976 marked by the feats of Aaron, Brock, and Ryan and the great World Series of 1975. 2004: 416 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $17.95 List Price: $14.95 SALE PRICE: $6.95 NOW: $5.95 ✔ 32NRR. THE GASHOUSE GANG; How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful Crowd, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series - and America’s heart During the Great Depression John Heidenry The story of the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals caught America’s attention at the lowest point of the depression. 2007: 304 pages, illustrated. (PublicAffairs) 3317R. THE PLAYER’S LEAGUE; History, Clubs, Ballplayers, and Statistics Ed Koszarek An account of The Player’s League, formed in 1889 by John Montgomery Ward and 140 others who set it up as a rival to the American Association and the National League. Although short-lived, it represented the first battle between players and owners and had a lasting influence traced in this book. 2005: 448 pages. (McFarland) Price: $35.00 359MR. THE TOUR TO END ALL TOURS; The Story of Major League Baseball’s 1914-1914 World Tour James E. Elfers The epic tour in the winter of 1913 of the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox, organized by John McGraw and Charles Comiskey, across Europe and Asia finishing with a game before King George V and 24,000 fans also saw the players meeting kings, rulers, popes and other dignitaries, survive a shipwreck and get to play the tables in Monaco. 2003: 278 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 ✔ 32MLR. AN INDIAN SUMMER; The 1957 Milwaukee Braves, Champions of Baseball Thad Mumau A detailed journey through this season, with profiles of all the key players, winning streaks, tough stretches, key transactions, industries, and the final World Series triumph. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $6.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ New Offerings 11 SPECIAL SEASONS ✔ 32JXR. 1941 - GREATEST YEAR IN SPORTS; Two Baseball Legends, Two Boxing Champs, and the Dominating Thoroughbred Who Made History in the Shadow of War Mike Vaccaro A chronicle of the summer of 1941 in which Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, and Whirlaway figured, catching everyone’s attention and making for an unforgettable summer during which, as Phil Rizzuto noted, “You read the sport section a lot because you were afraid of what you’d see in other parts of the paper.” 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. (Doubleday) 330TR. BASEBALL AND OTHER MATTERS IN 1941 Robert W. Creamer “Creamer artfully weaves his own 1941college-boy-on-the-cusp-of-war persona throughout the narrative. There are wonderful asides, ranging from Red Barber’s early days as the Brooklyn Dodgers radio announcer to the draft woes of Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg.” Time. 34 photos. 368 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $23.95 SPECIAL: $19.15 ✔ 32FQR. THE 1967 RED SOX; The Impossible Dream and The Birth of the Red Sox Nation Bill Newlin and Cecelia Tan An analysis of how the Sox, who had finished ninth the year before, almost brought off a world championship, with biographies of the players involved as well as a number of thoughtful essays on the team, the season, the fans, and all that contributed to that great season. 2007: 240 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Softcover. (Rounder) List Price: $18.95 NOW: $4.95 346TR. BLACKBALL, THE BLACK SOX, AND THE BABE; Baseball’s Crucial 1920 Season Robert C. Cottrell Highlights Judge Landis, Babe Ruth, Buck Weaver, and Rube Foster as they figured in the post Black Sox scandal season and how their careers were forever changed. 280 p., Illus. (McFarland Price: $17.95 ✔ 33AAR. OPENING DAY; The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season Jonathan Eig A ground-breaking chronicle of the 1947 season with much new information about such topics as his relation with Pee Wee Reese and Dixie Walker, the attempt by the cardinals to boycott the Dodgers, and the role of Wendell Smith, Robinson’s roommate. Includes many new interviews with Robinson’s family and teammates. 2007: 352 pages, illustrated. (Simon & Schuster) List Price: $29.95 PRICE: $12.95 ✔ 32TQR. BROOKLYN REMEMBERED; The 1955 Days of the Dodgers Maury Allen Captures the emotion and drama of the 1955 Dodgers triumph over the Yankees and the role of the great players such as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and even Tommy Lasorda. Illustrated. Softcover. 2007: 216 pages. Sports Publishing) List Price: $26.00 SPECIAL: $20.80 ✔ 32UGR. RICO PETROCELLI’S TALES FROM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM RED SOX Rico Petrocelli and Charles Scoggins The story of the Summer 1967 season by the All-Star Red Sox shortstop, recounting how, beginning then, the Sox began to turn into one of the best and most popular organizations in professional sports today. 200 photos. 2007. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $16.95 359NR. MORE THAN MERKLE; A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History David W. Anderson Anderson means the 1908 season when 3 National League teams finished within a half game of each other, forcing the first-ever playoff game, and the American League race was decided by .004 percentage points. 2003: 320 pages, illus. Softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $19.95 ✔ 32TGR. THAT ONE GLORIOUS SEASON; Baseball Players with One Spectacular Year, 1950-1961 Richard H. Letarte Jim Konstanty, Al Rosen, Ned Garver, Bobby Shantz, Don Newcombe, Harvey Haddix, Bob Shaw, Mickey Vernon, and Johnny Antonelli are among those portrayed who turned in some miracle, if unique, performances. 2007: 370 pages, illustrated in color. Softcover. (Randall) List Price: $16.95 NOW: $4.95 346FR. STRENGTH DOWN THE MIDDLE; The Story of the 1959 Chicago White Sox Larry Kalas The whole magical season, from first to last pitch when the 1959 White Sox brought it all home. 16 pages of action photos and complete season stats. 2000: 250 pages. (Mereken Land) Price: $25.95 Price: $16.95 ✔ 32HXR. THE YEAR BABE RUTH HIT 104 HOME RUNS; Recrowning Baseball’s Greatest Slugger Bill Jenkinson Takes readers through Ruth’s 1921 season in which his pattern of batted balls would have accounted for more than 100 home runs in today’s ballparks and under today’s rules. The book also reveals that, during an era of mammoth field dimensions, Ruth hit more 450’+ shots than anyone in history. 2007: 352 pages, softcover. (Carroll & Graf) 31XWR. WHEN CHICAGO RULED BASEBALL; The CubsWhite Sox World Series of 1906 Bernard A. Weisberger The story of the first intra-city World Series, how it brought excitement to the city devastated only 35 years earlier by the Great Fire, how the teams matched up, and how the raucous six-game series ended in the storied upset. 2006: 256 pages, illustrated. (Morrow) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $9.95 Price: $16.95 325QR. AMAZING METS; The Miracle of ‘69 New York Daily News Relives the history-making season with more than 100 photos from the Daily News archives showing the team in the days of Seaver, Koozman, Hodges, Ryan, Clendenon, and all the others. 1999: 208 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) ✔ 32XGR. FIVE O’CLOCK LIGHTNING; Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, The 1927 New York Yankees Harvey Frommer “The 1927 Yankees may or may not have been the best team ever, but surely this is the best book about that concentration of talent.” George Will. 2007: 288 pages. (Wiley) List Price: $29.95 SALE PRICE: $4.95 Price: $24.95 12 ✔ New Offerings THE TEAMS THE TEAMS ✔ 31YCR. ACES IN ORBIT; How the Astros Pitched Their Way to the World Series Jose de Jesus Ortiz Chronicles the place of Pettitte, Clemens, and others and how they led the team to the 2004 championship under Jimmy Williams. 2006: 192 pages, illustrated. (Sports Publishing) 32ACR. THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS William C. Kashatus A complete illustrated history of the team with nearly 200 vintage photographs depicting the Connie Mack era and its stars up to its final decade in Philadelphia. 2006: 96 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $16.95 ✔ 32RER. ATHLETICS ALBUM; A Photo History of the Philadelphia Athletics Mark Stang From the days of Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx to Ferris Fain and Eddie Joost, more than 200 vintage photos , many never before published, bring back the days of the great Athletics teams, their equipment, uniforms, and ballparks as well as the players, managers, and owners. 2007: 208 pages. 10” x 10”. (Orange Grazer) Price: $19.99 ✔ 32UAR. GAME OF MY LIFE; Atlanta Braves Jack Wilkinson Dozens of Braves stars, like David Justice, Terry Pendleton, Ron Gant, and Tom Glavine remember that single game that defined greatness for himself and his team. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $24.95 List Price: $39.95 SPECIAL: $29.95 ✔ 32PPR. THE KANSAS CITY A’S AND THE WRONG HALF OF THE YANKEES; How the Yankees Controlled Two of the Eight American League Franchises During the 1950s Jeff Katz Details the curious relationship between the owners of the Yankees and the Kansas City A’s and one reason behind the Yankees’ success in the 1950s brought about by possibly questionable business dealings between the two organizations. 2007: 250 pages, 30 illustrations. (Maple Street Press) 371JR. THE BOSTON BRAVES, 1871-1953 Harold Kaese The indispensable history of the team in its Boston years, first written in 1948 and revised in 1954, richly illustrated with vintage photographs and cartoons and accounts of the great players and seasons. This edition includes a new statistical appendix. 2004: 336 pages, softcover. (Northeastern) List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 Price: $24.95 ✔ New Offerings 13 THE TEAMS 32AYR. AS GOOD AS IT GOT; The 1944 St. Louis Browns David Alan Heller The story of the team under Luke Sewell and how it made it to the World Series with a bunch of scrubs, 4-F players, retired major leaguers, and youngsters. Nearly 200 vintage photographs. 2003: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32APR. CHICAGO CUBS, 1926-1940 Art Ahrens An illustrated history of the team in the days of 14 consecutive winning seasons with McCarthy, Hornsby, Hartnett,and Veeck. 200 vintage photographs. 2005: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $19.99 Price: $19.99 31F3R. CARDINALS GLORY; For the Love of Dizzy, Ozzie, and the Man Alan Ross The great players, teams, magical moments, rivalries, parks, championships, managers, and everything else about the great franchise. 2005: 256 pages, softcover. Illus. (Cumberland House) ✔ 32NAR. CHICAGO CUBS; Tinker to Evers to Chance Art Ahrens 200 vintage photos show the Cubs of the days of the spitball pitchers, inside-the-park home runs, raucous fans, and the team’s exploits up through 1916. 1007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) List Price: $12.95 SALE PRICE: $6.95 Price: $19.99 ✔ 32BHR. CARDINALS ESSENTIAL; Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan! David Claerbaut Everything any fan of student of baseball needs to know about one of the oldest and most revered franchises in baseball, including its heroes, villains, victories and defeats, great hitters and pitchers, and memorable flakes. 2006: 192 pages, illus. (Triumph) ✔ 32BFR. CUBS ESSENTIAL; Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan! Lew Freedman A feast of trivia and stats that will take the fan paces they have never been before in Wrigley Field with Banks, Williams, Santo, Jenkins, and all the others. 2006: 192 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) Price: $19.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32MKR. EL BIRDOS; The 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals Doug Feldman ✔ 32RLR. THE CUBS; The Compete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball Glenn Stout The definitive narrative history of the Cubs from the 1860s on to Looks back at the great Cardinal teams of 1967 and 1968 and the ups and downs of a century of seasons filled with great games how new management, trades, a new stadium, policy changes, and players as well as disappointments and disasters. 200 illustraand inside dealings as well as Branch Rickey’s farm system protions. 2007: 480 pages. (Houghton Mifflin) duced some outstanding teams. Illus. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 List Price: $40.00 SPECIAL: $32.00 ✔ 32FTR. THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS IN THE 1940s Mel R. Freese A history of the Cardinals when they qualified as a dynasty, dominating the national League and winning four pennants and three World Series with Musial, Slaughter, and other stars on the field. 2006: 296 pages, softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32TYR. GAME OF MY LIFE; Chicago Cubs Lew Freedman Cubs legends like Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ferguson Jenkins, Don Kessinger, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandberg, and Ken Holtzman, as well as some of today’s players, reflect on many special plays and special days. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $29.95 Price: $24.95 363BR. FEW AND CHOSEN; Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras Tim McCarver Lists the best 5 players at each position throughout the history of the Cardinals as well as sharing insights about what makes a player or manager unique. 2003: 224 pages, illus. (Triumph Books) ✔ 32QRR. THE ULTIMATE CHICAGO CUBS BASEBALL CHALLENGE David Nemec and Scott Flatow A challenging baseball quiz book with more than 660 “at bats” in each book with questions containing clues and hints that help the reader face up to questions ranging from those about rookies to RBIs and the World Series. 2007: 160 pages. Softcover. (Taylor) List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $6.95 32FFR. THE ST. LOUIS BASEBALL READER Richard Peterson Baseball in St. Louis covering the Cardinals and Browns. Featuring writings by Roger Angell, George Will, and Red Smith writings about the likes of Jack Buck, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Rogers Hornsby, Marty Marion, Bill Veeck, and Satchel Paige. 2006: 456 pages, illus. (Missouri) Price: $10.95 ✔ 32RTR. WHEN CHICAGO RULED BASEBALL; The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906 Bernard A. Weisberger The story of the first intra-city World Series, how it brought excitement to the city devastated only 35 years earlier by the Great Fire, how the teams matched up, and how the raucous six-game series ended in the storied upset. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (HarperPaperbacks) Price: $29.95 Price: $14.95 370KR. BASEBALL IN ST. LOUIS Steve Steinberg The story of St. Louis baseball in the days of the rise of the American League, the fall of the Federal League, the heyday of the Cardinals and the Browns, of Sisler and Hornsby, Branch Rickey, and other great players and managers. More than 200 vintage photographs. 2004: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32KDR. WRIGLEY WORLD; A Season in Baseball’s Best Neighborhood Kevin Kaduk A humorous and also serious appreciation of the glorious and the pitiful at Wrigley Field over the decades and why its surrounding neighborhood makes it a great and historic ballpark. 2007: 304 pages, softcover. (NAL) Price: $19.99 Price: $13.95 14 ✔ New Offerings THE TEAMS 32DKR. MIRACLE COLLAPSE; The 1969 Chicago Cubs Doug Feldmann The story of how a great team, led by Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, and Ferguson Jenkins, and managed by Leo Durocher, raced toward a seemingly certain pennant only to unravel spectacularly at season’s end. 2006: 326 pages, illustrated. (Nebraska) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32WER. THE DODGERS; 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball Glenn Stout An illustrated history of the Dodgers going all the way back to 1884, featuring more than 200 great photos as well as an expert narrative history of the team, with special material on its many innovations, great players, relation with Brooklyn, rivalries with other teams, historic struggles with the Yankees, and the famous 1958 move. 2004: 464 pages, oversize. (Houghton Mifflin) List Price: $35.00 NOW: $13.95 ✔ 32UBR. GAME OF MY LIFE; Los Angeles Dodgers Mark Langill Dodgers legends like Johnny Podres, Carl Erskine, Maury Wills, Tommy Davis, Wes Parker, Willie Davis, Steve Garvey, Fernando Valenzuela, and Ron Cey as well as executive Buzzie Bavasi and broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin, reflect on many special plays and special days. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32MNR. THE LAST YEARS OF THE BROOKLYN DODGERS; A History, 1950-1957 Rudy Marzano Covers the years 1950 until the move to Los Angeles in 1957, probing many myths and misconceptions and covering the history of the franchise. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32LER. FEW AND CHOSEN; Defining Giants Greatness Across the Eras Bobby Thomson with Phil Pepe Thomson selects his all-time Giants team with five players at each position and five top managers throughout the team’s entire history. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) Price: $25.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ 32TWR. GAME OF MY LIFE; San Francisco Giants Matt Johanson More than 30 former and current players share their fondest single-game experiences and memories, including Felipe Alou, Jason Schmidt, Bob Brenly, Bobby Bolin, and Robby Thompson. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) ✔ 3814R. PRAYING FOR GIL HODGES; A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family’s Love for the Brooklyn Dodgers Tom Oliphant Focusing on the legendary seventh game of the 1955 Series, the author weaves it into the larger issues of race, class, Brooklyn, and the place of sports in American life, as well as his own family’s experiences that day. 2005: 304 pages, illustrated. (St. Martin’s) Price: $24.95 List Price: $24.95 NOW: $7.95 ✔ 32LBR. THROUGH A BLUE LENS; The Brooklyn Dodger Photographs of Barney Stein Dennis D’Agostino and Bonnie Crosby Stein was the official Dodger team photographer from 1939 to 1957 and had full access to every corner of Ebbets Field. This commemorative book includes nearly 200 of his special photos. 2007: 176 pages, 9” x 10”. (Triumph) ✔ 32GNR. THE NEW YORK GIANTS BASE BALL CLUB; The Growth of a team and a Sport, 1870 to 1900 James D. Hardy, Jr. The pre-McGraw Giants were occasionally very good and frequently very fashionable, playing in the country’s premier city and filling a role as a major organized spectator diversion in an industrial society. 2007: 251 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $27.95 Price: $28.50 361FR. THE DODGERS ENCYCLOPEDIA; 2nd edition William McNeill Source for the Dodgers, both Brooklyn and Los Angeles, with a history of the organization, stories of memorable games, photos, and statistics. “Without a doubt, The Dodgers Encyclopedia can take its rightful place as one of the best team encyclopedias on the market.” Sports Collectors Digest. More than 400 photos. 2003: 472 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) SPECIALS! E-mail Address – if we have yours, you will be immediately notified of Discount Specials and New and Forthcoming titles at www.scholarsbookshelf.com/baseball List Price: $39.95 SALE PRICE: $12.95 ✔ New Offerings 15 THE TEAMS ✔ 32UER. THE CURSE OF ROCKY COLAVITO; A Loving Look at a Thirty-Year Slump Terry Pluto The story of the Cleveland Indians after they traded Colavito away in 1960 and fell into a 33-year miserable slump when only pride and masochism brought fans to the drafty old Cleveland Stadium. 2007: 304 pages, 40 illustrations. Softcover. (Cleveland Books) 31P7R. NATIONALS ON PARADE; 70 Years of Washington Nationals Photos Mark Stang and Phil Wood Over 225 photos span 70 years of baseball history in Washington from the days of Sam Rice and Joe Cronin to Roy Sievers, Harmon Killebrew, and dozens of other players, managers, owners, and broadcasters. 2006: 208 pages. (Orange Frazer) List Price: $34.95 Tom Deveaux SALE PRICE: $27.95 31L1R. THE WASHINGTON SENATORS, 1901-1971 The complete history of one of the most unsuccessful teams ever to play the game. 2005: 288 pages. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $14.95 ✔ 32UDR. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SUPER JOE? Catching Up With 45 Good Old Guys from the Bad Old Days of the Cleveland Indians Russell Schneider Interviews with 45 former Indians, most of whom had brief careers but who enjoyed a few minutes of fame, such as “Super Joe” Charboneau, Gomer Hodge, Duane Kuiper, Tom Candiotti, Frank Duffy, Ray Narleski, and “Immortal” Joe Azcue whose batting average proved him merely human. 2007: 224 pages, 45 illustrations. Softcover. (Cleveland Books) Price: $35.00 31F9R. THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES; The History of a Colorful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis Frederick G. Lieb 50th anniversary edition of this history of the Orioles from its first days in Baltimore as the Lord Baltimores through the years as the St. Louis Browns, and on to the first season in Baltimore. An update of the original G.P. Putnam’s edition with a new Foreword by Bob Broeg. 2005: 296 pages, softcover. (Southern Illinois) Price: $14.95 List Price: $18.00 Louis Berney SALE PRICE: $14.95 31U7R. THE CLEVELAND INDIANS Franklin Lewis Franklin “Whitey” Lewis’s classic study of the Cleveland Indians as originally published in 1949, still the essential account of the organization’s early years, the 1920 World Series, and ending with the 1948 pennant race, and the great players of the time including Feller, Doby, Cy Young, and others. 2006: 320 pages, softcover. Illustrated. (Kent) ✔ 32UPR. TALES FROM THE ORIOLES DUGOUT Stories of such greats as Brooks Robinson, Dave McNally, Paul Blair, Earl Weaver, and Cal Ripken who built the mighty Baltimore teams between 1966 and 1983. 2007: 202 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $14.95 Price: $18.00 345KR. THE CLEVELAND INDIANS ENCYCLOPEDIA; 2nd Edition Russell Schneider The entire history of this team, with 200 player profiles, season-by-season descriptions of great moments, more than 700 illustrations, extensive statistics, coverage of World Series championships, and any number of little-known facts and anecdotes. 2001: 600 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) ✔ 32WUR. THE FALL OF THE 1977 PHILLIES; How a Baseball team’s Collapse Sank a City’s Spirit Mitchell Nathanson Detailed account of the Black Friday game and how the events that unfolded in the stands and on the field changed how Philadelphia viewed the team thereafter. 2007. illus. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $49.95 SALE PRICE: $14.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ 32WRR. THE AMAZIN’ METS, 1962-1969 William J. Ryczek Traces the history of the Mets from the inauspicious beginnings of the franchise up to the championship 1969 season, with interviews with more than 100 former players and expert analysis. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32BER. PHILLIES ESSENTIAL; Everything You Need to Know to be a Real Fan Rich Westcott Phillies lore from the beginnings of the franchise, filled with stats, trivia, anecdotes, ups and downs, and accounts of the great players and the losers. 2006: 224 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) Price: $19.95 ✔ 32UCR. PITTSBURGH; Major League Baseball’s Five-Star City Greg Spalding Celebrates Pittsburgh as one of the best baseball cities in the U.S., with hundreds of photos and illustrations of Pirates memorabilia including score cards, baseball cards. stats, many All-Star games, and dozens of candid photos of players over the years. 2007: 139 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Softcover. (Word Association) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32NDR. METS PRIDE; For the Love of Mookie, Mike, and David Wright Alan Ross How the Mets players, managers, coaches, opponents, fans, and the media gradually built up world championship teams, attracted greats like Seaver, Carter, Gooden, and Strawberry, and evolved from chaotic beginnings to a respectable team. 2007: 256 pages, softcover. (Cumberland House) List Price: $19.95 David Finoli SPECIAL: $15.95 ✔ 32RFR. THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES 200 Vintage photos re-create the history of the Pirates from the days of Honus Wagner through the championship years and Mazeroski and Clemente. 2007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $12.95 ✔ 32UKR. TALES FROM THE METS DUGOUT Bruce Markusen Stories from the Mets’ 45 years of baseball under Stengel, Hodges, and other great managers, and how they acquired such greats as Seaver, Strawberry, and Gooden. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (Sport Publishing) Price: $19.99 359BR. THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES Frederick G. Lieb Classic history of the team covering the club from its earliest days to the 1947 season, and tracing the days of Wagner, Cobb, Cuyler, Traynor, the Waners, Greenberg, and Kiner. Originally published in 1948 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 2003: 336 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Southern Illinois) Price: $14.95 List Price: $17.00 SALE PRICE: $6.95 16 ✔ New Offerings THE TEAMS ✔ 32GJR. RED SOX IN THE PLAYOFFS; A Postseason History, 1903-2005 Joshua R. Pahigian An analysis of the dramatic postseason collapses and logicdefying defeats suffered by the red Sox during this long period, reviewing each playoff team’s regular season performance, examining every postseason game, and tracing the reactions of the fans and the players. 2006: 279 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $35.00 ✔ 32XTR. CINCINNATI REDS HALL OF FAME HIGHLIGHTS; Memorable Moments in Team History as Heard on the Reds Radio Network Greg Rhodes A colorful account of the Big Red Machine’s long history and traditions with more than 300 pieces on the team’s players and moments by the baseball historian and director of the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum. More than 100 photos. 2007: 224 pages, softcover. (Clerisy) ✔ 32QDR. NOW I CAN DIE IN PEACE; How ESPNs Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox Bill Simmons The author’s unique and frequently hilarious look at how the Red Sox finally managed a world championship after eighty years. 2006: 384 pages, softcover. (ESPN) Price: $14.95 Price: $16.99 ✔ 32BGR. RED SOX ESSENTIAL; Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan Jim Prime Who’s the worst-fielding first baseman they’ve ever had? Who was so bad he once got a standing ovation for scooping up a candy bar wrapper that had blown onto the field? This and everything else about one of the game’s oldest and most revered franchises. 2006: 208 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) ✔ 32LFR. ECHOES OF CINCINNATI REDS BASEBALL; The Greatest Stories Ever Told Traces the great tradition of professional baseball since it was founded in Cincinnati in 1869, covering the great players, the parks, and the championship seasons as well as the great baseball tradition of the city. 2007: 224 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) Price: $19.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32UMR. TOM BROWNING’S TALES FROM THE REDS DUGOUT Tom Browning with Dann Stupp Updated edition of this classic collection of tales about Cincinnati and events surrounding Marge Schott, Pete Rose, the 1990 World Series, and the great players who have played in Cincinnati. Illus. 2007. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) ✔ 32GKR. RED SOX LEGENDS Jennifer Latchford and Red Oreste Player interviews and historical narrative along with 200 vintage photos sample the Boston’s Public Library’s unique collection of Red Sox memorabilia. 2007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $35.00 Price: $16.95 ✔ 32QKR. Also available in Hardcover. 2007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) 31U8R. THE CINCINNATI REDS Lee Allen Allen’s irreplaceable 1948 history of the Cincinnati organization from the Civil War era on to the end of the 1940s, with accounts of the great players, games, and championships, and how the team rose in popularity and success in its home town. 2006: 352 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Kent) Price: $9.99 ✔ 32PLR. THE ULTIMATE RED SOX COMPANION; A Complete Statistical and Reference Guide Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, Editors A new and fully comprehensive encyclopedia with full information on history, rosters, stats for every player, top games, Hall-ofFamers, uniforms, and every possible fact about the team and its farm system. 2007: 400 pages, illustrated. (Maple Street Press) Price: $18.00 32AER. THE CINCINNATI REDS, 1900-1950 Kevin Grace Nearly 200 vintage photographs present an illustrated history of the team, its ballparks, and the stars such as Ed Roush, Eppa Rixey, and Ernie Lombardi. 2005: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) List Price: $34.95 SPECIAL: $27.95 332PR. THE RED SOX ENCYCLOPEDIA; 2nd Ed. Robert Redmount The ultimate Red Sox reference book chronicles the great moments of Red Sox history from 1901 - 1997, including the greatest players and managers as well as total statistical coverage. Includes a new 8-page color section. More than 300 photos. 2002: 320 pages., 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) Price: $19.99 32ADR. THE CINCINNATI REDS, 1950-85 Jack Klumpe and Kevin Grace The author covered the Reds for mire than a quarter century, and presents an illustrated history of the team featuring his own photographs of the great players and also the everyday games at Crosley Field and Riverfront Stadium. 2004: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) List Price: $39.95 SALE PRICE: $12.95 371DR. RED SOX VS. YANKEES; The Great Rivalry Harvey and Frederic Frommer Covers nearly a century of on-and-off the field baseball with firsthand comments by players such as Don Zimmer, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi and many others as well as in-depth profiles on Di Maggio, Williams, and both Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. 2004: 160 pages, illustrated. 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) Price: $19.99 List Price: $24.95 SALE PRICE: $9.95 ✔ New Offerings 17 THE TEAMS ✔ 32WDR. TOP OF THE HEAP; A Yankees Collection Glenn Stout, Editor An anthology of great sports writings about the Yankees over the decades, showing how, for 100 years, some of the best writers in America have chronicled the team. 2003: 368 pages, softcover. (Houghton Mifflin) List Price: $13.00 NOW: $8.95 ✔ 32PRR. BOMBERS BROADSIDE 2007; An Annual Guide to New York Yankees Baseball Cecelia Tan, Editor A detailed study of the Yankees at all levels with analyses of particular player’s actions and achievements, full stats, the roster, the entire organization and farm system, and histories of the great Yankee dynasties, teams, and players. 2007: 112 pages, softcover. 8 1/2” x 11”. Color illustrations. (Maple Street Press) Price: $14.95 ✔ 32WXR. GREATNESS IN WAITING; An Illustrated History of the Early New York Yankees, 1903-1019 Ray Istorico The Yanks before they acquired Babe Ruth but starred Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, and Willie Keeler, and how the team faced challenges on and off the field as the American League came into existence. 195 illustrations. 2007. (McFarland) Price: $55.00 ✔ 32UNR. TALES FROM THE DETROIT TIGERS Jack Ebling Cobb, Kaline, Greenberg, Gehringer, Gibson, Lolich, and McLain are just a few of the greats who figure in this collection of tales about Tiger baseball. 2007: 200 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. (Sport Publishing) ✔ 32MMR. REYNOLDS, RASCHI, AND LOPAT; New York’s Big Three and the Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953 Sol Gittleman A biography of the three Yankee veterans who help put together five consecutive World Championships, and how they worked together, and became lifetime friends. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32QTR. THE ULTIMATE NEW YORK YANKEES BASEBALL CHALLENGE David Nemec and Scott Flatow A challenging baseball quiz book with more than 660 “at bats” in each book with questions containing clues and hints that help the reader face up to questions ranging from those about rookies to RBIs and the World Series. 2007: 160 pages. Softcover. (Taylor) Price: $19.95 333BR. THEY EARNED THEIR STRIPES: The Detroit Tigers’ All-Time Team The Detroit News Looks back over a century of Detroit Tiger baseball in the fan’s choice of the all-time team, managed by Sparky Anderson, and fielding Hank Greenberg, Charlie Gehringer, Hal Newhouser, Mickey Lolich, Ty Cobb, Al Kaline and many others. Recreates many great World Series moments, historic home runs, and great hitting and pitching performances. Illustrated with photos. 2000: 192 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. (Sports Publishing) Price: $10.95 ✔ 32PKR. THE ULTIMATE YANKEES COMPANION; A Complete Statistical and Reference Guide Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, Editors A new and fully comprehensive encyclopedia with full information on history, rosters, stats for every player, top games, Hall-of-Famers, uniforms, and every possible fact about the team and its farm system. 2007: 400 pages, illustrated. (Maple Street Press) List Price: $29.95 Warren Brown SALE PRICE: $6.95 ✔ 32KRR. THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX Reproduces this classic 1952 history of the Sox recounting in an unmatched way the adventures of the “Hitless Wonders” and their capture of the 1906 pennant as well as many other colorful events including, of course, the story of the eight players who accepted bribes to fix the 1919 World Series. 2007: 272 pages. Softcover. (Kent) List Price: $34.95 SPECIAL: $27.95 ✔ 32MPR. THE YANKEES IN THE EARLY 1960s William J. Ryczek Thorough research and more than 100 interviews shed new light on the decade in which the Yankees were at both the top and the bottom. Illus. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $18.00 18 ✔ New Offerings THE BALLPARKS ✔ 32MBR. BALLPARKS THEN AND NOW Eric Enders A city-by-city tour of America’s most famous ballparks combining vintage and modern photos, with special attention to the 2006 season and the dawning of the modern era. Includes full data about each park. 2007: 160 pages, 70 color and 70 black and white photos. (Thunder Bay) ✔ 32HCR. GREEN CATHEDRALS; The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks Philip J. Lowry A Bible of ballparks with a fully illustrated guide to each of the 405 parks that, over the past 140 years, have played host to Major and Negro League baseball, here in a completely revised and updated edition. Includes more than 130 new ballparks and hundreds of new photos. 2007: 352 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. 250 photographs. (Walker) Price: $10.95 ✔ 32KJR. FENWAY; A Biography in Words and Pictures Dan Shaugnessy and Stan Grossfeld An expanded and updated edition of the classic history of the classic park with its Green Monster and the lone red seat that marks Williams’s longest home run. 30 new photographs cover additional details up to the 2006 Series. Illustrated throughout in color. 2007: 160 pages, 8 1/2” x 10 7/8”. (Houghton Mifflin) List Price: $26.95 Irwin J. Cohen SPECIAL: $21.55 32AMR. COMISKEY PARK 200 vintage photographs show the park from its opening in 1910 up to the 1990s, depicting the great games and players, the park’s various details and improvements, including Bill Veeck’s exploding scoreboard, and much more. 2004: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) List Price: $29.95 SPECIAL: $23.95 ✔ 32FWR. FORBES FIELD; Essays and Memories of the Pirates’ Historic ballpark, 1909-1971 David Cicotello and Angelo J. Louisa, Editors Includes fascinating material about the major events at Forbes Field, not only in baseball but in boxing, football, and black baseball. Also included are interviews with more than 55 former players, officials, and managers, 100 fans, and several sportswriters. The dimensions, construction, and configurations of the field are also covered. 2007: 254 pages, 88 photographs. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $19.99 31A7R. CROSLEY FIELD Irwin J. Cohen The history of the home of the Cincinnati Reds, the first night game, Babe Ruth’s last road trip as an active player, Ted Kluszewski, Wally Post, and Smokey Burgess, and a few AllStar Games and World Series. 200 vintage photos. 2005: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $35.00 ✔ 32GQR. THE GREATEST BALLPARK EVER; Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers Bob McGee A lively story of sports, politics, and the Dodgers. The author chronicles the park’s vibrant history beginning with Charley Ebbets in 1913, going through the decades that followed, covering its architectural details, notable flaws, and striking facade, the great who played there, and the wrecking ball that brought it down in 1957. 2007: 384 pages, 38 illustrations. Softcover. (Rutgers) Price: $19.99 32AHR. RIVERFRONT STADIUM; Home of the Big Red Machine Mike Shannon 200 classic photographs depict the thirty-two-year history of the famous home of the Cincinnati Reds and the Big Red Machine. 2006: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $19.99 31H5R. ST. LOUIS’ BIG LEAGUE BALLPARKS Joan M. Thomas Traces St. Louis baseball back to 1875 and its players, teams, and the old Grand Avenue Grounds and Red Stockings Park in more than 150 vintage photos. 2004: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $19.95 Price: $19.99 ✔ New Offerings 19 REFERENCE ✔ 32UXR. IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL ITS OVER; The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts An exhaustive statistical study of the ten greatest pennant races of all time from 1944 to 1967, aimed at answering the questions of what determines who wins, how important are midseason changes, why teams have winning and losing streaks, and can one bad player or play ruin a team’s chances. 2007: 400 pages. (DaCapo) List Price: $25.00 SPECIAL: $19.95 ✔ 32KCR. THE MIND OF BILL JAMES; How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball Scott Gray The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of the foremost baseball statistician and writer who changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed, and even played. 2007: 256 pages. Softcover. (Broadway) Price: $14.00 ✔ 31M8R. JINXED; Baseball Superstitions from Around the League Rare Air, Ltd. An insider’s look at the superstitions of Big League players from legends of old to today’s superstars like David Cone, Nomar Garciaparra, Lenny Dykstra, Ken Griffey, Jr., and Joe Torre. 2006: 128 pages. (Ballantine) REFERENCE ✔ 370YR. THE BASEBALL ROOKIES ENCYCLOPEDIA David Nemec and Dave Zeman A year-by-year account of baseball’s freshman classes from the 1870s through 2003 with all the stats as well as a wealth of information about the rookies never compiled in one place before. 2004: 384 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Illustrated. Softcover. (Brassey’s) List Price: $21.95 SPECIAL: $17.55 ✔ 32TER. THE SABR BASEBALL LIST AND RECORD BOOK Society for American Baseball Research An exhaustive and authoritative collection of more than 1,000 baseball lists and records on pitching, hitting, fielding, home runs, teams, and rookie records available only in this publication. 2007: 384 pages, 48 illustrations. Softcover. (Scribner) List Price: $24.95 NOW: $9.95 ✔ 32WYR. BASEBALL BOOKS; A Collector’s Guide Mike Shannon The best guide to the best books on baseball, with a history of their publication and collecting, identifying the most sought-after titles, and showing how to find them, what to pay, and how to maintain their condition. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $17.95 SPECIAL: $14.35 ✔ 32JAR. THE SPORTS ENCYLOPEDIA: BASEBALL 2007 David S. Meft, Richard M. Cohen, and Michael L. Neft The latest stats, history, and trivia from 1901 through the 2006 season with all-time batting and pitching leaders, every play’s season and lifetime stats, every World Series game, every award winner, and much more. 2007: 848 pages. Softcover. (St. Martin’s) Price: $29.95 ✔ 32LMR. THE 2007 ESPN PRO BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA, 4th Edition Peter Plamer and Gary Gillette, Editors Featuring totally revised and updated statistics, this is the most accurate portrait of the game of baseball with material on history, all-time leaders, career histories, teams, managers, ballparks, the Negro Leagues and every record ever set. 2007: 1760 pages. Softcover. (Sterling) List Price: $23.95 SPECIAL: $19.15 ✔ 32UYR. WAITING FOR COOPERSTOWN; Baseball Veterans (1902-1972) and the Hall of Fame Sam Reich The author offers “The Reich Framework” for evaluating 142 out of 12,000 players who are worthy of the Hall of Fame, naming those who are the top ten. The author also identifies who doesn’t make the cut. 2007: 176 pages, softcover. (Droz) List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 ✔ 32XJR. THE GIGANTIC BOOK OF BASEBALL QUOTATIONS Wayne Stewart Gathers thousands of wise and witty quotes about every aspect of the game from Hank Aaron, Satchel Paige, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Derek Jeter, Don Zimmer, Roger Angell, Red Barber, George Will, and hundreds of others. 2007: 800 pages. (Skyhorse) Price: $19.99 31M1R. THE BASEBALL BIBLIOGRAPHY (2ND ED) Myron J. Smith, Jr. More than 57,000 entries make this the largest and most comprehensive non-electric, non-database, print bibliography of its kind. 2006: 1,704 pages. (McFarland) Set of 2 Volumes. Price: $24.95 List Price: $150.00 SALE PRICE: $139.50 20 ✔ New Offerings THE MINOR LEAGUES THE MINOR LEAGUES ✔ 32LNR. AKRONCANTON BASEBALL HERITAGE Thomas Maroon, Margaret Maroon, and Craig Holbert Traces the strong presence of baseball in this area as far back as the late 1880s, identifying the dozens of teams that have played there, including many affiliated with the majors, the great players that have emerged from Ohio, and much more. 200 vintage photos. 1007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32GCR. MINOR LEAGUE ALL STAR TEAMS, 1922-1962; Rosters, Statistics, and Commentary Jamie Selko Covers every official minor league AllStar team with a full roster, individual pitching and hitting statistics, and detailed commentary. Sabermetrics stats are used to present the cases of deserving but overlooked players. 21007: 600 pages, softcover. (McFarland) Price: $49.95 ✔ 32XAR. THE NEW ENGLAND LEAGUE; A Baseball History, 1885-1949 Charles Bevis Covers the history f minor league baseball during six decades, exploring its complex ties to the regional economy, especially the textile industry, and its pioneering experiments in playoffs, night baseball, and integration. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $19.99 ✔ 32HBR. THE AMERICAN GAME; A Celebration of Minor League Baseball Ira Rosen 200 full color photos illuminate this book about minor league stadiums from coast to coast. Includes many interviews. 2007: 192 pages, 8” x 10”. (CollinsReference) List Price: $29.95 Skip Nipper SPECAL: $23.95 ✔ 31T7R. TRYOUT Malcolm Moran Price: $29.95 ✔ 32JYR. BASEBALL IN NASHVILLE Nashville’s first professional team was organized in 1885, but, as the author shows, its roots go back to 1862 when Union soldiers taught the game to locals. 200 vintage photographs depict developments up to 2005 and how baseball, including the Negro Leagues, evolved in the city. 2007: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) An account of the Cape Cod League and its long history of more than 100 years of baseball and how it still represents a simpler era in the game. Illustrated. 2006: 288 pages. (St. Martin’s) List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 Price: $19.99 ✔ 32NHR. BASEBALL IN VENTURA COUNTY Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt The story of West Coast baseball all the way back to 1847 in Santa Barbara, the players it produced, such as Charley Hall and Fred Snodgrass as well as modern stars such as Terry Pendleton. 200 vintage historic photographs. 2007: 128 pages. (Arcadia) ✔ 32NYR. THE ULTIMATE MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ROAD TRIP; A Fan’s guide to AAA, AA, A, and Independent League Stadiums Josh Pahigian An irreverent and enthusiastic guide to all 119 stadiums in the Minors, with directions and tips for travelers as well as team histories, amenities, and peculiarities. 2007: 544 pages, softcover. Illustrated. (Lyons) Price: $24.95 Price: $19.99 32AUR. BASEBALL IN CHATTANOOGA David Jenkins The story of professional baseball in this city from 1885 up to today, with special material on the Lookouts and the great players like Harmon Killebrew who played there. Nearly 200 rare photographs. 2006: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32GMR. THE EASTERN LEAGUE IN BASEBALL; A Statistical History, 1923-2005 Marshall D. Wright An exhaustive year-by-year, team-by-team statistical history of the Eastern League from its inception to its current status, showing how it evolved and how the game evolved during its time. 2006: 856 pages, illustrated. Softcover, boxed. (McFarland) Set of 2 Volumes. Price: $19.99 Price: $49.95 ✔ 32MQR. “THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED IN DIXIE.” The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game John A. Simpson The rags-to-riches story of this Southern Association team in the deadball era, examining the personalities of the players as well as the game of that era, its changes, and how the game was played. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) 32AAR. BASEBALL’S CANADIAN-AMERICAN LEAGUE; A History of Its Inception, Franchises, Participants, Locales, Statistics, Demise, and Legacy, 1936-1951 David Petrusza 2005: 236 pages,illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 367PR. THE BEER AND WHISKEY LEAGUE David Nemec The illustrated history of the American Association, active between 1882 and 1891. More than 200 rare photographs, complete statistics. 272 pages, 8” x 10”. Softcover. (Lyons) List Price: $18.95 SALE PRICE: $4.95 Price: $29.95 355ER. THE GRAND MINOR LEAGUE; An Oral History of the Old Pacific Coast League Dick Dobbins Celebrates the heyday of the Pacific Coast League of DiMaggio, Fred Hutchinson, Luke Easter, Jackie Jensen, Mel Ott, and hundreds of others with comments, anecdotes, and wisdom from the men who were active from the 1920s through the mid-’50s. Includes chapters on the ballparks, the great teams, and the owners, managers, and players.Illustrations in color and black & white. 1999: 328 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. Softcover. (Woodford Press) ✔ 32MTR. OUT OF THE PARK; Memoir of a Minor League Baseball All-Star Ed Mickelson The author recounts his eleven-year struggle to get to play in the minors after they opened up after World War II, and how difficult it was to nail one of the 400 spots of the 16 teams. 65 photos. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $35.00 Price: $25.00 ✔ New Offerings 21 THE MINOR LEAGUES • THE NEGRO LEAGUES 32ABR. THE HOLLYWOOD STARS Richard Beverage The story of this team created in 1926 when the Salt Lake City franchise transferred to the Pacific Coast League, its roots and various incarnations, pennants in 1949, 1952, and 1953, and its place in baseball in the West. 2006: 128 pages. Softcover. (Arcadia) ✔ 32NBR. THE INDIANAPOLIS ABC’S; History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues Paul Debono The story of this team, a charter member in the Negro National League and its fortunes and misfortunes as the depression years made baseball difficult. 2007: 239 pages, illustrated. (McFarland) Price: $19.99 Price: $29.95 342YR. THE PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE; A Statistical History, 1903 - 1957 Dennis Snelling A season-by-season guide to the League that produced DiMaggio, Williams, Gomez, the Waner brothers, Ernie Lombardi, and many other Major League stars. Includes listings of starters and primary reserves for all teams, playoff results, managerial records, statistical leaders for each season, and records for more than 500 of the most notable players. 1995: 406 pages, softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32QJR. INVISIBLE MEN; Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues Donn Rogosin Many new insights into Negro League baseball emerge as the author shows how players like Smoky Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, and Josh Gibson became folk heroes in their cities where their teams drew large crowds and they became major contributors to local community life despite being effectively shut out of the Major Leagues. 2007: 336 pages, 50 photographs,m 100 tables. Softcover. (Nebraska) Price: $29.95 32AGR. SAN FRANCISCO SEALS Martin Jacobs & Jack McGuire 200 rare archival photos depict more than half a century of Seals baseball and the many top major leaguers who went on to fame from this team, as well as the triumphs and events the team saw including the 1906 earthquake, the Great Depression, and two world wars. 2005: 128 pages, softcover. (Arcadia) Price: $24.95 ✔ 32KUR. THE NEGRO LEAGUES AUTOGRAPH GUIDE Kevin Keating and Mike Kolleth A guide for the autograph collector showcasing two or more signatures from each of the more than 200 key players included, and with biographical information and estimated values. 1998: 270 pages, softcover. (KP) Price: $19.99 List Price: $24.95 NOW: $6.95 31YWR. WEST VIRGINIA BASEBALL; A History,1865-2000 William E. Akin Traces the history of minor league and independent league baseball in this state and their significant contribution to baseball and the larger economic and cultural changes in the area. 2006. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) ✔ 32TPR. RULING OVER MONARCHS, GIANTS, AND STARS; Umpiring in the Negro Leagues and Beyond Bob Motley and Byron Motley The only living umpire from the Negro Baseball Leagues recalls his experiences with the Kansas City Monarchs, The Chicago American Giants, The St. Louis Stars, the Newark Eagles, the Homestead Grays, and other teams as well as his encounters with Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays. 2007: 240 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Sports Publishing) Price: $29.95 THE NEGRO LEAGUES ✔ 32MFR. BLACK WRITERS/BLACK BASEBALL; An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues Jim Reisler Revised edition of this anthology of 10 African American sportswriters who covered the Negro Leagues in the early twentieth century and who wrote for black weekly newspapers and dealt with the same social conditions and endless travel as the players. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $16.95 ✔ 32MGR. SATCHEL PAIGE AND COMPANY; Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star, and the Negro Leagues Leslie A. Heaphey, Editor Discussions of the people Paige encountered in his career, his effect on the Jim Crow era, and Paige in myth and reality as well as the image of the Negro Leagues in his time. Illustrated. 2007. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $35.00 ✔ 32LDR. FEW AND CHOSEN; Defining Negro Leagues Greatness Monte Irvin with Phil Pepe A look at baseball’s unsung heroes who played before meager crowds, on rudimentary fields, and in small towns across the United States, written by the New York Giants star who broke into the majors in 1949 and here recalls his roots and what he saw back then. 2007: 240 pages, illustrated. (Triumph) ✔ 32KBR. SHADES OF GLORY; The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball Lawrence D. Hogan The definitive and fully illustrated history of black baseball in America, packed with stories, biographical essays, scores of archival photographs, and artifacts. 2007: 448 pages, 75 illustrations. Softcover. (National Geographic) Price: $25.95 Price: $15.95 ✔ 32XKR. HEROES OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES Jack Morelli and Mark Chiarello Reproduces Chiarello’s watercolor trading cards, collected here for the first time and including 39 new images created especially for this book. Among those portrayed are Paige, Aaron, and Jackie Robinson. 2007: 128 pages. (Abrams) ✔ 32LWR. THE SOUL OF BASEBALL; A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America Joe Posnanski O’Neil and Posnanski recount their cross-country quest in search of the baseball of the old days before steroids and big money. 2007: 256 pages. (Morrow) Price: $19.95 List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 22 ✔ New Offerings CROSSING THE LINE • LATIN-AMERICAN BASEBALL 352YR. BLACK BASEBALL’S NATIONAL SHOWCASE; The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953 Larry Lester The first history of these games, examining the incredible talent that appeared in them and including play-by-plays and full statistical records, as well as a study of the players, promoters, gamblers, and others who figured in them. Softcover. 2002. (Illinois) ✔ 32TCR. FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES; The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden A narrative history of the black athlete in the United States from 19th-century boxing rings to history-making figures such as Jesse Owens, Sonny Liston, and Willie Mays and Michael Jordan, contending that back athletes are no better off today than when masters forced them to race and fight. 2007: 304 pages, illustrations. Softcover. (Crown) List Price: $39.95 Paul Debono SALE PRICE: $9.95 31XER. THE CHICAGO AMERICAN GIANTS Covering the years 1870-1953, this book provides a detailed account of one of the Negro Leagues’ most legendary teams, covering the teams, players, and games in depth and including interviews with veteran players and a biographical dictionary. 2006. Illustrated. (McFarland) Price: $13.95 ✔ 32XHR. JACKIE ROBINSON AND THE INTEGRATION OF BASEBALL Scott Simon “Perhaps no one has ever told the tale of Robinson’s arrival in the major leagues so well as Simon does in this extended essay.” Washington Post Book World. 2007: 176 pages. Softcover. (Wiley) List Price: $35.00 SALE PRICE: $14.95 31YXR. THE MANDAK LEAGUE; Haven for Former Negro League Ballplayers, 1950-1957 Barry Swanton Price: $12.95 ✔ 33AAR. OPENING DAY; The Story of Jackie A chronological history of the semi-professional ManDak organi- Robinson’s First Season zation, with material on its stadiums, officials, lineups, managers, Jonathan Eig and season highlights. 2006. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) For a full description, see page 12 Price: $29.95 311MR. SOL WHITE’S HISTORY OF COLORED BASE BALL; with Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 Sol White Republishes the full 1907 edition of this rare but essential book, the source for much of what is known about the organized black game before 1920. Includes the even rarer supplement along with all, the advertisements. 91 illus. 255 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) LATIN-AMERICAN BASEBALL ✔ 32XBR. SOUTH OF THE COLOR BARRIER; How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration John Virtue A complete account of the Mexican multimillionaire and his Mexican League during the decade preceding Robinson’s debut and how, almost 150 players from the Negro Leagues were recruited by him and played in his league. 2007. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $12.00 SALE PRICE: $2.95 31L0R. VOICES FROM THE NEGRO LEAGUES; Conversations with 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960 Brent Kelley Negro League players reminisce about what it was like to barnstorm the countries and deal with Jim Crow. The men reflect on their careers with humor, bluntness, and poignancy. 2005: 342 pages, 81 illustrations. Softcover. (McFarland) Price: $29.95 Price: $35.00 CROSSING THE LINE ✔ 31C8R. BASEBALL HAS DONE IT Jackie Robinson Back in print for the first time since its initial publication in 1964, this is Robinson’s unique oral history of baseball integration based on his candid interviews with the players who lived through its first generation, including Hank Aaron,Ernie Banks, Larry Doby, Elston Howard, and Don Newcombe. 2005: 225 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Ig) ✔ 32GAR. A HISTORY OF CUBAN BASEBALL, 1864-2006 Peter C. Bjarkman A complete history of Cuban baseball including coverage of nearly five decades of the Sugar Kings’ ejection from the International League, the many Cuban teams and their fate, and the reasons for Cuban baseball’s many remarkable achievements in teams and players. 2007: 496 pages, illustrated. (McFarland) Price: $39.95 ✔ 32NCR. WHO’S WHO IN CUBAN BASEBALL, 1878-1961 Jorge S. Figueredo The definitive source for biographical and season-by-season statistical information for hundreds of Cuban, North American, and Latin-American players who were in the Cuban Leagues and who contributed to making Cuba the second power in organized baseball. More than 500 photos. 2007: 422 pages, softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $12.95 NOW: $6.95 ✔ 32JUR. CARRYING JACKIE’S TORCH; The Players Who Integrated Baseball - and America Steve Jacobson Profiles 20 players, including Ernie Banks, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and others, all of whom fought the same battles as Robinson. 2007: 256 pages, illustrated. (Lawrence Hill) Price: $24.95 Price: $39.95 ✔ 356RR. EXTRA BASES; Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History Jules Tygiel Revisits the Robinson saga with many new insights into the history of blacks in baseball, The Negro Leagues, the careers of other blacks such as Campanella and Aaron, and how baseball has changed America’s cultural scene. 2002: 172 pages, softcover. (Nebraska) 31XPR. MEXICAN RAIDERS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES; The Pasquel Brothers vs. Organized Baseball, 1946 G. Richard McKelvey How the five Pasquel brothers recruited 23 players away from American teams, the subsequent struggle, the fate of the players, and the history of the Mexican “outlaw” league. 2006. Illustrated. Softcover. (McFarland) List Price: $17.95 NOW: $5.95 Price: $29.95 ✔ New Offerings 23 BASEBALL DVDs ✔ 32QLR. BALTIMORE ORIOLES LEGENDS: CAL RIPKEN, JR. Features more than 15 hours of full-length uncut games showcasing different facets of Ripken’s talents and contributions, including the famed September 6, 1995 consecutive-game record breaker when he received a 20-minute ovation. 912 min., color. 6 DVDs. ✔ 32QER. REEL BASEBALL; Baseball Films from the Silent Era 1899-1926 A specially-produced DVD program which gathers 13 rare baseball films ranging from 1899 to 1926, featuring Babe Ruth, and John McGraw and also including such features as The Busher (1919), with Colleen Moore and John Gilbert, Casey at the Bat (1922)’ with DeWolf Hopper, and even Felix Saves the Day (1922)’ with Felix the Cat. Special musical score. Ca. 250 min., Silent, B. & W. 2 DVDs. Price: $59.95 ✔ 32QMR. CHICAGO CUBS LEGENDS: GREAT GAMES Eight of the Cubs greats, including Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, Mark Grace, Rick Sutcliffe, Kerry Wood, Sammy Sosa, and Greg Maddux are saluted in memorable games, along with their city, their park, and their fans. 500 min., Color. 8 DVDs. Price: $29.95 Price: $79.95 ✔ 32HRR. REEL BASEBALL; Baseball’s Golden Era, The Way America Witnessed It - in the Movie Newsreels Les Krantz All the great baseball figures from 1932 to 1965 are recalled in these images of contemporary American newsreels. Includes a 60-minute DVD with some of the most thrilling moments engineered by Babe Ruth, Bobby Thomson, Joe DiMaggio, and many others. 2007: 160 pages, 8 1/2” x 11”. (Doubleday) 31WFR. THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS GREATEST GAMES OF BUSCH STADIUM, 1966-2005 More than 17 hours of digitally enhanced, game action with the complete game broadcasts, stats, trivia, game summaries, and player information. Games include 1968 World Series Game 1, 1982 World Series Game 7, 1985 National League Championship series, Game 5, 2004 National League Championship Series, Game 7, and others. Over 1,000 minutes. Color. 6 DVDs. Price: $59.95 List Price: $29.95 SPECIAL: $23.95 VINTAGE WORLD SERIES FILM COLLECTIONS ON DVD Memorable World Series and division championship games complete with the original broadcast commentary, and featuring pivotal games, their stars, and the great moments ✔ 32LRR. ANAHEIM ANGELS 2002 Presents the highlights of the all-California classic between Anaheim and San Francisco which set or tied more than two dozen World Series and postseason records. 93 min., Color. DVD. ✔ 32NFR. THE NEW YORK YANKEES 1977 The entire 1977 World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the days of Thurman Munson, Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and Willie Randolph. All games are uncut. 900 min., Color. 7 DVDs. Price: $19.95 Price: $69.95 ✔ 32LPR. BLUE JAYS, 1992, 1993 Vintage World Series films of these two championship seasons, with their stars and unforgettable moments. 122 min., Color. DVD. ✔ 32JTR. THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 2006 WORLD SERIES Every single complete game as well as never-before-seen celebratory footage and interviews. Ca. 500 min. Color. 8 DVDs. Price: $19.95 Price: $79.95 ✔ 32NGR. THE CINCINNATI REDS, 1975, 1976, 1990 Gathers all the games of these three great World Series classics from the days of Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, George Foster, Barry Larkin, and others as they played the Red Sox, Yankees, and Oakland A’s. 134 min, color. DVD. 32CWR. NEW YORK GIANTS Showcases the Giant’s great World Series play with Willie Mays, Dusty Rhodes, and Leo Durocher, footage from the days at the Polo Grounds, and Bobby Thomson’s unforgettable homer. 180 min., Color and B.&.W. DVD. Price: $19.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32NER. CLEVELAND INDIANS 1948 Showcases the championship team of Feller, Lemon, Boudreau, Doby, and Paige in the days under Bill Veeck. 95 min., Color and B.&.W. DVD. 32DAR. NEW YORK YANKEES Covers 17 Yankees World Series victories from 1949 on, with vintage footage of DiMaggio, Mantle, Munson, and Jackson, and five seasons under Joe Torre. More than 1,000 min., Color. 5 DVDs. Price: $49.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32LQR. DETROIT, 1945, 1968, 1984 Vintage World Series films from these three championship seasons for the Tigers, with Hall-of-Famers Hank Greenberg, Hal Newhouser and Sparky Anderson. 117 min., Color and B.& W. DVD. 32CUR. OAKLAND A’S Actual footage and game narration from the three World Series wins in a row from 1972 to 1974, with superstar performances by Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Vida Blue. Also includes Tony LaRussa’s 1989 leadership. 477 min., Color. DVD. Price: $19.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32HFR. METS 1969, 1986 Vintage World Series films bring back these memorable games and the stars who played in them such as Tom Seaver, Gary Carter, Mookie Wilson, Tommy Agee, Lenny Dykstra, Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, and Tug McGraw. 75 min., color. DVD. 31WER. THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES 1979 WORLD SERIES COLLECTOR’S EDITION Over 15 hours of digitally enhanced game broadcasts, complete with the original sportscaster commentary, stats, game summaries, player information, and more. Over 1,000 minutes, Color. 7 DVDs. Price: $69.95 Price: $19.95 ✔ 32LTR. THE MINNESOTA TWINS 1987 WORLD SERIES Gathers all the games of the Series including the classic 10-inning Game 7 thriller. 873 min., color. 7 DVDs. 32DHR. THE NEW YORK YANKEES; Fall Classic Collector’s Edition, 1996-2001 Collects the greatest games in recent Yankees World Series history, including 1996 Game 4; 1998 Game 3; 1999 Game 3; 2000 Game 4; 2001 Game 4; and 2 bonus DVDs on other games during this time. 885 min., Color 7 DVDs. Price: $69.95 Price: $79.95 24 ✔ New Offerings SCIENCE, LITERATURE & BUSINESS OF BASEBALL THE SCIENCE OF BASEBALL ✔ 32GRR. A GAME OF INCHES; The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game Behind the Scenes Peter Morris Contains nearly a thousand facts that illuminate items ranging from catchers’ masks to hook slides to cork-center baseballs, with a great deal of additional material on ballparks, fans, marketing, statistics, the building of teams, and other related aspects of the game, explaining the context in which various changes took place and the sometimes surprising responses. 2007: 560 pages. (Ivan R. Dee) THE LITERATURE OF BASEBALL ✔ 32JCR. THE NIGHT CASEY WAS BORN; The True Story Behind the Great American Ballad “Casey at the Bat” John Evangelist Walsh The colorful history of the legendary poem and its creation and first performance in New York in 1888, with a full account of the poem, the poet, and how it came to mirror America’s fascination with the game. 40 illustrations. 2007: 256 pages. (Overlook) List Price: $25.00 SPECIAL: $19.95 ✔ 32BKR. SUITCASE SEFTON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM Jay Feldman Mac “Suitcase” Sefton, a scout for the New York Yankees, discovers a left-handed pitcher named Jerry Yamada in a Japanese American internment camp in Arizona during World War II and schemes to turn him into a major leaguer. 2006: 240 pages. (Triumph) Price: $29.95 ✔ 362WR. THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF BASEBALL Paul Dickson The story of the role of signs and signals in baseball, investigating why and how, during a nine-inning game, as many as 1,000 silent instructions are given all around the field, how these signals originated, who has made specially imaginative use of them, who has stolen them, and much more. 2003: 192 pages. (Walker) Price: $22.95 List Price: $22.00 NOW: $8.95 ✔ 32HMR. THE JOY OF KEEPING SCORE; How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball Paul Dickson From the first scorecard in 1845 up to today, Dickson presents a history of the evolution of baseball scoring. Includes a gallery of scorecards from baseball’s most memorable games, notes on rule changes, scoring blunders, and much more. 2007: 128 pages, 50 illustrations. Softcover. (Walker) 31Q1R. THE BEST OF BASEBALL DIGEST; The Greatest Players, the Greatest Games, the Greatest Writers from the Game’s Most Exciting Years John Kuenster Some 150 of the best articles from baseball’s most popular magazine, all from the 1940s to the present, and by writers such as Red Smith, Heywood Broun, Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Roger Kahn, Murray Chass, and dozens of others. 2006: 416 pages, 100 illustrations. (Ivan R. Dee) Price: $14.95 ✔ 32QHR. LEVEL PLAYING FIELDS; How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball Peter Morris How many of the rules of the game and customs arose as concessions to the daunting practical difficulties of creating a baseball diamond, with a special look at these Irish immigrants who crafted home-field advantages for some of baseball’s earliest dynasties, designing pitching mounds, spring training sites, irrigation technique, the use of tarpaulins, and much more. 2007: 216 pages. (Nebraska) List Price: $29.95 SALE PRICE: $26.95 THE BUSINESS OF BASEBALL ✔ 32JFR. THE BASEBALL ECONOMIST J.C. Bradbury Interesting and frequently surprising conclusions are reached about the role of steroids, big city/small city competition, overvalued players, monopolistic aspects of baseball, how Babe Ruth would probably fare in today’s game, who killed all the lefthanded catchers, and much more. 2007: 250 pages. (Dutton) Price: $24.95 List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $19.95 ✔ 32KFR. A MATHEMATICIAN AT THE BALLPARK; Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans Ken Ross Why on-base and slugging percentages are more important than batting averages. How professional odds makers predict the length of a seven-game series. How to use mathematics to make smarter bets. These are a few of the issues the author discusses concerning the science of probability for the statsobsessed fan. 2007: 208 pages, softcover. (Plume) ✔ 32PNR. DIAMOND DOLLARS; The Economics of Winning in Baseball Vince Gennaro How winning and economic value are linked in baseball and why a team’s business and roster decisions are important, with intriguing material on how a player is valuable to his team, why a well-developed farm system is important, and what recent business trends are affecting the game. 2007: 250 pages. (Maple Street Press) Price: $24.95 Price: $14.00 ✔ 32JGR. THE HEAD GAME; Baseball Seen from the Pitcher’s Mound Roger Kahn A probing look at the psychological battle between pitcher and hitter, looking at grips, speeds, and tactics as well as knowledge, maturity, and competitive spirit. The author explores the pitching styles of Christy Matthewson, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, and many others. 2000: 310 pages. (Harcourt) ✔ 32RKR. GROWING THE GAME; The Globalization of Major League Baseball Alan M. Klein The first book to focus on the international aspects of baseball in big and small markets and how the game now operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa and Japan. 2006: 288 pages. (Yale) List Price: $14.00 NOW: $6.95 Price: $30.00 ✔ New Offerings 25 OTHER SPORTS ✔ 32JNR. CAGES TO JUMPSHOTS; Pro Basketball’s Early Years Robert W. Peterson Traces the history of the sport in America from the first rules by James Naismith in 1891 to the advent of the NBA games in Madison Square Garden. 2002: 226 pages. (Nebraska) List Price: $14.95 NOW: $4.95 ✔ 31T2R. CHUCK TAYLOR, ALL STAR; The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History Abraham Aamidor The story of the man behind the Converse All-Star basketball shoe, covering his many activities in “industrial league” basketball in the 1920s, a wartime coach with the Army Air Force, and ambassador around the world for basketball. 2006: 200 pages, illustrated. (Indiana) Price: $21.95 ✔ 32JLR. THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMATEUR BASKETBALL; The AAU Tournament, 1921-1968 Adolph H. Grundman The history of the AAU, with revealing studies of the early tournaments, rule changes, key players, dominant teams, competing leagues, and especially the many cagers, players, and coaches who went on to great careers. 2004: 327 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Nebraska) List Price: $24.95 NOW: $6.95 OTHER SPORTS ✔ 32BTR. NATIVE ATHLETES IN SPORT AND SOCIETY; A Reader C. Richard King, Editor Covers the full breadth and richness of the accomplishments of Native American athletes in the United States and Canada and what they have meant to citizens and spectators alike. The author discusses both individuals like Jim Thorpe and Notah Begay as well as their teams and organizations on many levels and different sports. 2006: 2336 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Nebraska) ✔ 32HTR. THE RIVALRY; Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball John Taylor An account of the battle between these two complex men set in the context of the game and the country at a crossroads in racial tensions and cultural change. “A serious work of sports history, this volume compares favorably with the best works of John Feinstein and David Halberstam on sports.” ALA Booklist. 2007: 432 pages. Softcover. (Ballantine) Price: $14.95 Price: $26.95 ✔ 32JPR. THEY CLEARED THE LANE; The NBA’s Black Pioneers Ron Thomas Shows how African American pioneer players have not only contributed to the game but transformed it with new ways of playing positions and bringing about rule changes. 2002: 288 pages, illustrated. Softcover. (Nebraska) ✔ 32LXR. 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