| TITLE |
AUTHOR |
PUBLISHER |
SUBJECT |
DESCRIPTION |
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| 2000 New York Yankees Information and Record Guide |
Yankees Media Relations |
New York Yankees |
media guide |
team meadia guide for 2000 season |
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| 2001 Boston Red Sox Media Guide |
Red Sox Media Department |
Boston Red Sox |
media guide |
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| 2001 New York Yankees Information and Record Guide |
Yankees Media Relations |
New York Yankees |
media guide |
team media guide for 2001 season |
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| 2002 Atlanta Braves Media Guide |
Braves Media Dept. |
Atlanta Braves |
media guide |
|
|
| 2002 Boston Red Sox Media Guide |
Red Sox Media Department |
Boston Red Sox |
media guide |
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| 2002 Kansas City Royals |
K.C. Media Relations |
Kansas City Royals |
media guide |
team media guide for 2002 season |
|
| 2002 New York Yankees Information and Record Guide |
Yankees Media Relations |
New York Yankees |
media guide |
team media guide for 2002 season |
|
| 60 Feet Six Inches: And Other Distances from Home |
Fuller, Todd |
Holy Cow! Press |
biography |
biography of Mose Yellowhorse, with songs, poems, and other literary
inclusions |
|
| Annoted Casey at the Bat, The |
Gardner, Martin, ed. |
Dover |
baseball history |
Casey, Casey's revenge, and other baseball ballads |
|
| Babe Ruth & The American Dream |
Sobol, Ken |
Ballantine |
player biography |
biography of Babe Ruth from 1974, at least partly to refute and debunk
some of Ruth's opwn assertions and some of the myths |
|
| Babe Ruth Story, The |
Ruth, Babe as told to Bob Considine |
Dutton |
player biography |
Ruth's supposed autobiography, actually written by Ford Frick, still a
fascinating look back in time |
|
| Ball Four |
Bouton, Jim with Leonard Schecter, ed. |
Dell |
player biography |
the original tell-all sports book, covering Bouton's years with the
Yankees in the 60s and trying to make a comeback with the Seatttle Pilots |
|
| Balls |
Nettles, Graig and Peter Golenbock |
Putnam |
player biography |
hardcover, Nettles' account of the Bronx Zoo years of the late 70s, early
80s with the Yankees, mostly a criticism of Steinbrenner which got him (and
Goose Gossage) traded |
|
| Balls |
Nettles, Graig and Peter Golenbock |
Pocket |
player biography |
mass mkt pb, Nettles' account of the Bronx Zoo years of the late 70s,
early 80s with the Yankees, mostly a criticism of Steinbrenner which got him
(and Goose Gossage) traded |
|
| Baltimore Orioles Baseball 2001 |
Orioles Media Relations |
Baltimore Orioles |
media guide |
team media guide for 2001 season |
|
| Baseball Bafflers |
Makov, Fastball, ed. |
Black Dog & Leventhal |
baseball trivia |
quizzes, trivia, and other challenges |
|
| Baseball Bafflers 2: The Second Inning |
Weiser, Sam |
Black Dog & Leventhal |
baseball trivia |
quizzes, trivia, and other challenges |
|
| Baseball Days |
Littlefield, Bill |
Pond Press |
baseball, personal narrative |
essays on the game, from the sandlots to the Show, with great photos, too |
|
| Baseball Hall of Shame, The -- Vol. 2 |
Nash, Bruce and Allan Zullo |
Pocket |
humor |
big league blunders and boneheaded lows in behavior |
|
| Baseball In Baltimore |
Bready |
Johns Hopkins |
baseball history |
hardcover account of 100 years of baseball in Baltimore, including the
many incarnations of the Orioles |
|
| Baseball Scorecard 2001 |
Zminda, Don and Tony Nistler (eds.) |
Stats, Inc. |
baseball analysis |
essays that analyze the numbers behind the game |
|
| Baseball Tarot Book & Card Set |
Lerner, Mark and Laura Philips |
Workman |
miscellaneous |
Tarot Card set based on diamond games, with accompanying book |
|
| Baseball Wit and Wisdom |
Plaut, David, Ed. |
Running Press |
miscellaneous |
mini-book of baseball quotations |
|
| Baseball: A Literary Anthology |
Dawidoff, Nicholas |
Library of America |
literature |
compendium of great american baseball writing |
|
| Between The Lines |
Hershiser, Orel with Robert Wolgemuth |
Warner |
player biography |
like Jeter's, an autobiography written as an advice book "Nine
Principles to live by" |
|
| Bobby Richardson Story, The |
Richardson, Bobby |
Spire Books |
player biography |
Bobby Richardson's autobiography |
|
| Bronx Zoo, The |
Lyle, Sparky with Peter Golenbock |
|
player biography |
Lyle's Bouton-like diary of the 1978 season with the Yankees |
|
| Bunts |
Will, George |
|
baseball analysis |
a collection of conservative thinker Will's short pieces on baseball, his
"other" passion |
|
| Catfish: My Life in Baseball |
Hunter, Jim and Armen Keteyian |
Berkley |
player biography |
life and times of Jim "Catfish" Hunter, pitcher for the A's and
Yankees in the 70s |
|
| Chasing the Dream |
Torre, Joe |
|
player biography |
Torre's first book about his growing up, playing MLB, and finally making
it to the World Series as a manager in 1996 |
|
| Curse of the Bambino, The |
Shaughnessy, Dan |
Penguin |
baseball history, Red Sox |
a recounting of the misfortunes of the Red Sox from 1920 on |
|
| Derek Jeter |
Fisher, David |
Andrews McMeel |
player biography |
teeny tiny hardcover biography, 74 pages |
|
| Eight Men Out |
Asinof, Eliot |
Owl Books |
baseball history |
the story of the "black sox" scandal of 1919 |
|
| Five Seasons |
Angell, Roger |
Popular Library |
baseball, personal narrative |
collection of pieces from The New Yorker, 1972-1977 |
|
| For Yankee Fans Only |
Wolfe, Rich and Rhonda Sonnenberg |
Lone Wolfe Press |
baseball, personal narrative |
the stories of many die-hard Yankees fans |
|
| From Abba Dabba to Zorro: The World of Baseball Nicknames |
Zminda, Don |
Stats, Inc. |
baseball history |
lists and descriptions of great nicknames in baseball history |
|
| Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball |
Jamail, Milton |
Southern Illinois |
baseball history |
Cuba's baseball system, baseball as part of Cuban culture |
|
| Glory of Their Times, The |
Ritter, Lawrence |
Quill/Morrow |
baseball history |
The story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it |
|
| Heart of the Order, the |
Boswell, Thomas |
Penguin |
baseball, personal narrative |
a collection of columns and observations on the game by columnist
Boswell, much about the Orioles of the 1980s |
|
| Heat |
Gooden, Dwight with Bob Klapisch |
Morrow |
player biography |
Doc Gooden's life, troubles with drugs, woven throught a detailed account
of his 1996 no-hitter, pitched the day his father was hospitalized |
|
| Hidden Language of Baseball, The |
Dickson, Paul |
Walker & Co. |
baseball analysis |
examines the rich legacy of signs and signstealing |
|
| Hitting Faults and Fixes, The Complete Book of |
Gola, Mark and John Monteleone |
Contemporary Books |
baseball play, how to |
"how to correct the 50 most common mistakes at the plate" |
|
| Hitting, Pitching and Running--Maybe |
Paulsen, Gary |
Raintree Editions |
baseball play, how to |
a children's book, with photos, for very young kids, from 1976
"Sometimes the best time to think about sliding is after it's over, when
you're resting." |
|
| Home Run |
Plimpton, George, ed. |
Harcourt |
miscellaneous |
anthology of the best writing about home runs from "The
Natural" to Red Smith |
|
| How Life Imitates the World Series |
Boswell, Thomas |
Penguin |
baseball, personal narrative |
a collection of columns and observations on the game by columnist
Boswell, much about the Orioles of the 1970s and 1980s |
|
| How To do Baseball Research |
Tomlinson, Gerald, Ed. |
SABR/U. of Nebraska |
baseball writing reference |
essays by SABR members on the basics of doing baseball research and
writing |
|
| I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally |
Bouton, Jim |
Dell |
player biography |
a followup to BALL FOUR, Jim Bouton's continuing adventures as a
broadcaster, park league player, etc… |
|
| Images of Their Greatness |
Ritter, Lawrence and Donald Honig |
Crown |
baseball history, photographs |
the history of major league baseball in photos and decade by decade
essays |
|
| Iowa Baseball Confederacy, The |
Kinsella, W. P. |
Ballantine |
fiction |
fiction |
|
| Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners |
Torre, Joe with Henry Dreher |
Hyperion |
biography |
Joe tells anecdotes of the Yankees success, his own life, all
wrapped around advice on how to succeed in business, work with touch bosses,
motivate your players/employees, etc… |
| Josh Gibson |
Brashler, William |
Ivan R. Dee |
player biography |
biography of Josh Gibson, Negro Leagues player, catcher, the "black
babe Ruth" |
|
| Joy of Keeping Score, The |
Dickson, Paul |
Harcourt Brace |
baseball trivia |
nice book on scorecards and scorekeeping |
|
| Keep Your Eye On The Ball |
Watts, Robert G. and Terry Bahill |
Freeman |
baseball analysis |
physics and science applied to baseball to explain what happens to a ball
in flight, whether curve balls curve, how a batter sees the ball, and more |
|
| Kings of the Hill |
Ryan, Nolan with Mickey Herskowitz |
HarperCollins |
baseball history |
Nolan Ryan tells anecdotes of his favorite pitchers |
|
| Late Innings |
Angell, Roger |
Ballantine |
baseball, personal narrative |
New Yorker pieces from 1978-1982 |
|
| Life You Imagine, The |
Jeter, Derek with Jack Curry |
Three Rivers Press |
player biography |
autobiography of Jeter, ostensibly written as advice on how to overcome
adversity and achieve your dreams, through 2000 |
|
| Lifetime of Yankee Octobers, A |
Maiorana, Sal |
Sleeping Bear Press |
fiction |
novel spanning a New York lifetime through the 2001 World Series |
|
| Making the Team |
Morris, Timothy |
University of Illinois Press |
literary criticism |
Morris examines four themes in baseball fiction: assimilation,
heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy |
|
| Men At Work |
Will, George |
Harper |
baseball history |
Will's exploration of excellence in baseball, profiling Cal Ripken Jr.,
Tony LaRussa, Orel Hershiser, and Tony Gwynn |
|
| Natural, The |
Malamud, Bernard |
Avon |
fiction |
the story of Roy Hobbs |
|
| Navigators 2001 Media Guide |
Navigators Media Relations |
Norwich Navigators |
media guide |
team media guide for 2001 season |
|
| No Cheering In The Press Box |
Holtzman, Jerome |
Henry Holt |
baseball history, sports history |
interviews with beat writers and journalists about covering sports |
|
| October Men |
Kahn, Roger |
Harcourt |
baseball history, Yankees |
a portrait of the 1978 championship team |
|
| Old Ball Game: Baseball in Folklore and Fiction, The |
Coffin, Tristram P. |
Herder and Herder |
literary criticism |
an analysis of the place of baseball in American culture, myth-making,
and the stature of baseball literature in American letters, from 1971 but
reads as much older… |
|
| Oldest Rookie, The |
Morris, Jim with Joel Engel |
Little, Brown |
player biography |
autobiography of Jim Morris, high school coach who made the majors as a
pitcher after a decade away from the game |
|
| Physics of Baseball, The |
Adair, Robert K. |
HarperPerennial |
baseball analysis |
offical physicist of Major League baseball explains, in a somewhat dry
way, what's happening with the ball, the bat, etc… |
|
| Pitcher's Story, A |
Angell, Roger |
Warner |
player biography |
the life and times of David Cone up through 2000 season |
|
| Play Better Baseball for Girls |
Cluck, Bob |
Contemporary Books |
baseball play, how to |
basic baseball handbook by a scout and couch who runs a baseball school |
|
| Progress of the Seasons, The |
Higgins, George V. |
Prentice Hall |
baseball, personal narrative |
a third generation New Englander recounts a long life loving the Red Sox
-- first published in 1989 when the author was 50 |
|
| Quotable Baseball Fanatic, The |
Rubin, Louis D. Jr (ed.) |
Lyons Press |
miscellaneous |
compendium of pithy sayings by players and coaches |
|
| Quotable Casey |
McMane, Fred |
Towle House |
miscellaneous |
a compilation of Casey Stengel's most memorable quotes |
|
| Red Sox Fan Handbook, The |
Grossman, Leigh |
Swordsmith Productions |
baseball history, Red Sox |
"everything you need to know to be a Red Sox fan, or to marry
one" -- including important player biographies, events in team history,
etc. |
|
| Reflections of the Game |
Modra, Ronald C. |
Willow Creek Press |
baseball history, photographs |
Sports Illustrated photographer Modra's best shots, portraits, and action
shots |
|
| Season In The Sun, A |
Kahn, Roger |
U. of Nebraska |
baseball, personal narrative |
Kahn spent a summer from spring through fall, going through all types of
teams, college, semi-pro, and major league |
|
| Secrets of baserunning and Infield Play |
Crosetti, Frank |
Putnam |
baseball play, how to |
1966 library how to for young players by former Yankee shortstop Frank
Crosetti (30's & 40s) |
|
| Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (galley) |
Bryant, Howard |
Routledge |
baseball history, Red Sox |
a look at systematic racism in the Red Sox organization through the
Yawkey years |
|
| Slouching Toward Fargo |
Karlen, Neal |
Spike |
baseball, personal narrative |
true account of a writer looking for redemption when sent to
St. Paul to do a hatchet job smear story on Daryl Strawberry, then playing
for the plucky, independent league St. Paul Saints |
| Spring Training |
Zinsser, William |
Prentice Hall |
baseball history |
one spring training in and around the Pittsburgh Pirates Bradenton, FL
camp in the late 1980s |
|
| Stolen Season |
Lamb, David |
Warner |
personal narrative, minor leagues |
a noted war journalist takes a summer off to travel the country in an RV,
visiting minor league parks all over |
|
| Stories of the Diamond |
Thomas, David (ed.) |
Grosset & Dunlap |
fiction, anthology |
teen sports stories from 1950 |
|
| Streak: Joe DiMaggio & The Streak of 1941 |
Seidel, Michael |
Penguin Sports Linrary |
baseball history, Yankees |
account of 1941 56 game hitting streak |
|
| Summer of '98 |
Lupica, Mike |
Contemporary Books |
baseball, personal narrative |
Daily News columnist Lupica recounts the year of McGwire, the Yankees,
Wells' perfecto, and also the year his sons discovered they loved baseball,
too |
|
| Swing Batta! |
Mathews, Garret |
Michigan State |
Little League baseball |
somewhat fictionalized account of a Dad and his son's Little League team |
|
| Tales from the Dugout |
Shannon, Mike |
Contemporary Books |
baseball history |
anecdotes from players and people associated with the game, most of them
funny |
|
| Tarot of Baseball |
Kasher, Robert and Beverley Ransom |
U.S. Games |
miscellaneous |
Tarot Card set based on diamond games |
|
| Teddy Ballgame |
Williams, Ted with Dave Pietrusza |
Sports Publishing |
biography |
Ted Williams' book, reissued, lots of photos |
|
| Teen-Age Baseball Stories |
Owen, Frank (ed.) |
Grosset & Dunlap |
fiction, anthology |
teen sports stories from 1948 |
|
| Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons |
Berra, Yogi with Dave Kaplan |
Morrow |
biography |
Yogi tells tales of the golden age |
|
| Thing or Two About Baseball, A |
Fischer, David |
A Thing or Two Media |
baseball play, how to |
a pocket-size guide for parents and coaches, with rules, suggestions,
tips |
|
| Things Invisible to See |
Willard, Nancy |
Knopf |
fiction |
magical realist baseball novel |
|
| Toilet Paper Tigers, The |
Korman, Gordon |
Apple Paperbacks |
fiction, young adult |
kids book on an awful Little League team |
|
| Total Baseball, Seventh Edition |
Thorn, John, et. al. |
Total Sports |
reference |
title says it all, final volume before publisher folded |
|
| Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville |
Gould, Stephen Jay |
Norton |
baseball, personal narrative |
collection of essays by evolutionary biologist and yankees fan SJG |
|
| Ultimate Yankee Baseball Quiz Book, The |
Forker, Dom |
Gramercy |
baseball trivia |
quiz book of yankee trivia through 1997 |
|
| Umpire Strikes Back, The |
Luciano, Ron and David Fisher |
Bantam |
biography, humor |
famously flamboyant umpire Luciano tells it like it was on and off the
field |
|
| Underworld |
DeLillo, Don |
Scribner |
fiction |
the best fictional account of the "shot heard round the world"
in 1951 yet written |
|
| Veeck As In Wreck |
Veeck, Bill with Ed Linn |
Chicago |
biography |
autobiography of the Barnum of baseball, the man who first brought us
exploding scoreboards and once sent a midget to the plate |
|
| When Women Played Hardball |
Johnson, Susan E. |
Seal Press |
baseball history, women |
a fan's account of the AAGPBBL mixing her childhood reminiscences with
modern day interviews |
|
| Why Time Begins on Opening Day |
Boswell, Thomas |
Penguin |
baseball, personal narrative |
a collection of columns and observations on the game by columnist
Boswell, much about the Orioles of the 1980s |
|
| Wit And Wisdom of George Steinbrenner, The |
Coffey, Frank |
Signet |
humor |
collection of out of context quotes by The Boss, ostensibly funny though
some will make you cry, from 1993 |
|
| Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball |
Gregorich, Barbara |
Harcourt Brace |
baseball history |
the history of women playing baseball |
|
| World Series, The |
Neft, David S. & Richard M. Cohen |
St. Martin's Press |
reference |
complete play-by-play of every world series game from 1903 - 1989 |
|
| Writing Baseball |
Klinkowitz, Jerry (ed.) |
University of Illinois Press |
baseball, personal narrative and fiction |
anthology of both fiction selections and nonfiction, illustrating why
baseball brings out the best in both literary writers and essayists |
|
| Wrong Stuff, The |
Lee, Bill "Spaceman" with Dick Lally |
Penguin |
player biography |
life and times of Bill "Spaceman" Lee, LHP with the Red Sox in
the 1980s |
|
| Yankee Century, A |
Frommer, Harvey |
Berkley |
baseball history, Yankees |
one of the books on the Yankees' first 100 years of baseball |
|
| Yankee Century, The |
Stout, Glenn |
Houghton Mifflin |
baseball history, Yankees |
one of the books on the Yankees' first 100 years of baseball |
|
| Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age |
Bak, Richard |
Arcadia Publishing |
baseball history, photographs |
Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle, photographs of them and their contemporaries |
|
| Yankees, Reader, The |
Weinberg, Miro and Dan Riley (eds.) |
Mariner Books |
baseball history, Yankees |
an anthology of essays and columns about the Yankees, including excerpts
from player autobiographies and contributions from all the leading baseball
writers of the day |
|
| You Gotta Have Wa |
Whiting, Robert |
|
baseball history |
baseball in Japan |
|
| Zim: A Baseball Life |
Zimmer, Don with Bill Madden |
Total Sports |
player biography |
autobiography of Don Zimmer, Dodger player of the 50's, Yankees coach of
the 90's |
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| Total |
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107 |
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