The Quotable Baseball Fanatic
Lyons Pr, 2000. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. The most witty and insightful things ever said about America's favorite pastime.
Lyons Pr, 2000. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. The most witty and insightful things ever said about America's favorite pastime.
W W Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 339 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Ephemera. Stan Covelski (1889-1984,) pitcher (1912-1928), primarily for the Cleveland Indians and the star of the 1920 World Series with 3 complete game victories. He specialized in throwing the spitball, which was prohibited in 1920, with Covelski being one of seventeen pitchers permited to continue throwing the pitch. He was.....
The Bassett Fund, 1975. Trade Paperback. 9 pages. Published to celebrate Dawson's appearance at Duke University, 1975. Limited to 300 copies. Dawson's recllections of watching (and predicting) Stan Musiel's 3001 hit in St. Louis and additional reflections on the brilliant play of certain other ballplayers. Signed by the author. First.....
Philosophy Today, 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. pp. 209-226, Philosophy Today, Vol. 20, No. 3/4, Fall, 1976. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
USPO, 1989. Ephemera. 9 USPO $0.25 uncancelled postal stamps affixed to manila envelope.
Wiley, October 2007. Hardcover. Advance Praise for Five O'Clock Lightning "Come along with Harvey Frommer on a jaunty stroll through baseball eighty years ago. The 1927 Yankees may or may not have been the best team ever, but surely this is the best book about that wonderful concentration of talent.".....
F.J. Low Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 120 pages. Sportswriter and Branch Rickey-confidant Mann's account of Robinson's transition from the Negro Leagues to become the first modern African-American to play in the major leagues. Mann also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 film, The Jackie Robinson Story.....
Five Trees Press, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, with some fold-out pages. One of 350 copies. First printed in IO. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn pictorial wrappers (paperback).
Richard Wolffers Auctions, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Three auction catalogues all related to baseball collectibles. Many color illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Chicago Review Press, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. An account of what it was like to grow up a White Sox fan in a Cubs nation, this title covers the history of the organisation, from the heartbreak of 1967 and the South-Side Hit Men to the disco.....
Simon & Schuster, March 2011. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton.....