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2008 Official Rules of Major League Baseball
Triumph Books
Triumph Books
Triumph Books
The official rules used by professional baseball umpires. contains the casebook of the Official Playing Rules Committee, providing insight into rules intent.
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Jose Canseco
HarperEntertainment
HarperEntertainment
Touted as a Ball Four for the new millennium, Jose Canseco's Juiced promises to expose not only the rampant use of performance-enhancing substances in baseball (with steroids replacing the amphetamines of Bouton's day), but the painfully human...
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The Hidden Language of Baseball
Paul Dickson
Walker & Company
Walker & Company
Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine-inning game, more than 1,000 silent...
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Bad Guys Won
Jeff Pearlman
Harper Paperbacks
Harper Paperbacks
In The Bad Guys Won , award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York. It was 1986, and the New...
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The Art & Science of Pitching
Tom House, Gary Heil, Steve Johnson
Coaches Choice Books
Coaches Choice Books
Noted authors, coaches, and consultants Tom House, Gary Heil, and Steve Johnson present this update on objective medical, exercise, and coaching pitching research. The Art & Science of Pitching provides current information on skills and drills for...
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O Holy Cow!: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto
Phil Rizzuto
Harper Paperbacks
Harper Paperbacks
Found poetry is based on the idea that all kinds of texts, including conversational speech, are chock full of the stuff of poetry. Interesting sound-patterns, thematic repetitions, startling imagery--these typically poetic dimensions of language are...
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The Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition)
Robert Kemp Adair
Harper Paperbacks
Harper Paperbacks
Blending scientific fact and sports trivia, Robert Adair examines what a baseball or player in motion does-and why. How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curve ball break? Who reaches...
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
"[Lewis] has such a gift for storytelling."— New York Times There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with...
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Summer of '49 (P.S.)
David Halberstam
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
With the airwaves saturated with so much sporting choice, it's hard to imagine how, not that long ago, baseball so completely dominated the landscape and captured imaginations. Given the 1949 season that veteran journalist David Halberstam...
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