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1) Banana ball: the unbelievably true story of the Savannah Bananas

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"The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story"-- Provided by publisher. Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Instead he reshaped Savannah, Georgia's professional team into the league champion Savannah Bananas. And now the Bananas have restyled baseball itself into something all their own: they throw out a first banana rather than a ball. Their first-base coach dances between innings. And...

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It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

3) The baseball codes: beanballs, sign stealing, and bench-clearing brawls : the unwritten rules of America's pastime

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An insider’s look at baseball’s unwritten rules, explained with examples from the game’s most fascinating characters and wildest historical moments.

Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. All aspects of baseball—hitting, pitching, and baserunning—are affected by the Code, a set of unwritten rules that governs...

4) The bona fide legend of Cool Papa Bell: speed, grace, and the Negro Leagues

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Wheeler, Lonnie

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Documents the life of the Negro League star and Hall of Famer, tracing Bell's sharecropping heritage, his extraordinary switch-hitting talents, and how Major League Baseball's racial barriers impacted his career.

5) Buzz saw: the improbable story of how the Washington Nationals won the World Series

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Dougherty, Jesse (Sports writer)

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By May 2019, the Washington Nationals--owners of baseball's oldest roster--had one of the worst records in the majors and just a 1.5 percent chance of winning the World Series. Yet by blending an old-school brand of baseball with modern analytics, they managed to sneak into the playoffs and put together the most unlikely postseason run in baseball history. Not only did they beat the Houston Astros, the team with the best regular-season record, to...

6) Charlie Hustle: the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball

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"Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same time, he was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn't. In the 1980s Pete Rose came to be at the center of the...

7) The grind: inside baseball's endless season

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"What's it like to live through sports' longest season, the 162-game Major League Baseball schedule? THE GRIND captures the frustration, impermanence, and glory felt by the players, the staff, and their families from the start of spring training to the final game of the year; classy baseball writing in the Roger Angell or Tom Boswell tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

8) Last days of summer: a novel

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In Brooklyn, 1940, a wisecracking, baseball loving twelve-year-old boy, Joey Margolis, is in desperate need of a hero. His rich father has recently divorced his mother, leaving her all but penniless, and she is forced to move herself and her son to an Italian dominated part of Brooklyn, where he's the only Jew in the area. Constant abuse from other boys in the neighborhood prompts Joey to send letters to Charlie Banks, an up-and-coming star with the...

9) Latino stars in major league baseball: from Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano

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Weeks, Jonathan

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"Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. They have won major awards, guided their teams to the postseason, played in All-Star games, and an elite few have been enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. ...

10) Marathon-to-Go: Baseball

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Disc 1. The bad news Bears : Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over. Disc 2. Bull Durham : Baseball...

11) Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime

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Markusen, Bruce

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Every time you watch baseball, you're watching more than just a game—you're participating in the latest chapter of a compelling story. What began as the earliest bat-and-ball games became the favorite American pastime of the first 19th-century baseball games. Knowing the history of baseball can add levels of enjoyment and respect to any game you watch. Produced by The Great Courses in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame

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12) Play for me

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Hubscher, Libby

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"When an athletic trainer loses everything she's been working toward all in one day, she decides to start over at a boarding school in this new home-run romance from the author of If You Ask Me Sophie Doyle has her dream job as the head athletic trainer for her favorite baseball team (go Red Sox!), a handsome boyfriend, and easy access to the finest cannoli in Boston. When she loses all three and the World Series to boot, she's forced to apply for...

13) The prospects: a novel

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"Gene Ionescu, a gay trans man in his third year in the minors with the Beaverton Beavers, is a solid shortstop, but he's no one's idea of a major league prospect. He's just happy to be here, though, getting underpaid six months of the year to play the sport he's loved since childhood-a game that favors underdogs and optimists. He likes to keep his hopes in the day, inning by inning and game by game. But his plans go awry when Luis Estrada-Gene's...

14) Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

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Overmyer, James

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"In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, this book honors the life of Effa Manley, the trailblazing female co-owner of baseball's Newark Eagles. This edition includes new details regarding the Negro Leagues, Manley's induction into the Hall of Fame, and previously-unknown information about Manley's childhood and family"-- Provided by publisher.

15) Shoeless Joe

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Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story.

W. P. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale on love and the power dreams have to make people come alive.

"Shoeless Joe" was the great Joe Jackson, one of the eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who were banned from baseball for

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16) The tao of the backup catcher: playing baseball for the love of the game

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"In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport-and a society-increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics. The Tao of the Backup Catcher...

17) True: the four seasons of Jackie Robinson

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Kennedy, Kostya

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"True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson's death, letters come to his...

18) Wait till next year: a memoir

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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Sports Classics

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When historian Goodwin was six years old, her father taught her how to keep score for 'their' team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, which forged a lifelong bond between father and daughter. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is a coming-of-age memoir in the era of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, when baseball truly was a national pastime that brought whole communities together.

With her radio

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19) Welcome to the circus of baseball: a story of the perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time

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"A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever...

20) You gotta have heart: Washington baseball from Walter Johnson to the 2019 World Series champion Nationals

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Frommer, Frederic J

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"A complete history of baseball in the D.C. area, from the city's 1924 World Series championship to the 2019 World Series-winning Nationals"-- Provided by publisher.