Harper Perennial Modern Classics, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissued in.....
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.....
USPO, 1989. Ephemera. 9 USPO $0.25 uncancelled postal stamps affixed to manila envelope.
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).
DK Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Hardcover. Recapture classic moments in baseball history with full-page spreads that remind us why baseball is America's favorite game. Includes over 400 photographs from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Contemporary Books, 1996. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 433 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition thus. A near fine copy in color illustrated wrappers (paperback). An anecdotal history of baseball reveals many of the forces, events, and people that have shaped Americans' perceptions of the national 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.....
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).
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.....
Walker and Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. With essays by Mickey Mantel, Stephen Jay Gould and others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Obtained from the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen.....
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).
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.".....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, May 2006. Trade Paperback. "Dazzling...A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a 'simpler America' " --New York Times Book Review David Halberstam's classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through the battle royal between Joe DiMaggio's Yankees and Ted Williams's Red Sox for.....
McGraw-Hill, May 1988. Hardcover.
Oxford University Press, July 1989. Trade Paperback. Now available in paperback, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills' Baseball: The Early Years recounts the true story of how baseball came into being and how it developed into a highly organized business and social institution. The Early Years, traces the growth of.....
Rizzoli, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 10-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Photographs reproduced in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Top corners lightly bumped.
Chronicle Books, October 1987. Hardcover.