Sports

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Describes how an unheralded New York horse--trained by a journeyman, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a group of high-school buddies from Sackets Harbor--beat the champions and their multimillionaire owners to sweep to the brink of the Triple Crown.

Softcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Company, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Harry Ellard's Base Ball in Cincinnati, published in 1907, is an invaluable resource for those interested in the early years of professional baseball and the city that was its hometown. Ellard was uniquely positioned to write the definitive book on this topic: as a Cincinnati journalist, he knew of and consulted the best photographs and documents relating to the Cincinnati Club, and had the cooperation of several Red Stockings players. Readers will find information on stand-out clubs and games, and many of the important men who were instrumental to early baseball in Cincinnati and so to professional baseball in general. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black. 144 pages, b&w drawings by Paul Brown. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A unique record of a sportsman's year among the northern most tribe. A rousing account of hunting bears, walrus, narwhals, and more in the Polar region of Alaska.. (C) 1910, b&w photos by author. Light stain to bottom front cover, otherwise VG.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Halberstam, a lifeling fan of the game, explores the world of professional basketball as he spends the 1979-80 season travelling with the Portland Trail Blazers. Light fading to dj spine, remainder stamp to bottom edge.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 316 pages. "A manager's-eye view of the agonies and ecstasies of the '85 Mets--from way inside!. 'Bats,' written with bestselling coauthor Peter Golenbock, reveals Johnson's stinging opinions on the state of the game, on umpires, opposing players, other managers, and the press." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 289 pages. Thirty-five enchanting tales by distinguished experts from 1888-1913--bring back the flavor of incredible shooting from British Columbia, Montana, and Oregon down to Arizona and Mexico.

Hardcover. UK, Sutton Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 244 pages, b&w photos. In 1908 talented black US fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. Writers, including Jack London, and politicians feared the accession of the fearless and outspoken Johnson would threaten white supremacy. It was predicted that his reign would lead to civic unrest and race riots. Over the next seven years, more than 30 white fighters tried to beat Jackson, lured by the prospect of fame and a quick buck. It was not until 1915 that Jackson lost his crown, and during the years in between an extraordinary human drama was played out on the boxing world stage. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Spanish Fork UT, Hillcrest Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 160 pages. 212 black-and-white photographs, 76 fine color plates, 16 illustrations and 2 maps and 8 decoy profiles. SIGNED BY BOB WHITE who wrote the Foreword. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Villard, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. Minor wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Toronto, Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclippws dust jacket. Road Games is a passionate, engrossing and authoritative chronicle of the extraordinary 1992-93 NHL season, one that ended with an inquiry into whether or not the Ottawa Senators deliverately "tanked it" to secure their first overall draft pick of hockey's newest sensation, Alexandre Daigle. This was the season that Mario Lemieux's involvement in a sordid scandal was forgotten when he overcame cancer to win the scoring title; Doug Gilmour emerged as one of the game's finest players; and European stars Selanne, Bure, Mogilny and Fedorov rose to preeminence, while the North American hockey heroes-Gretzky, Lemieux, and Lindros-endured a season marked by injury, sickness, disturbing controversy and moving comeback. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Andrew McMeel Publishing, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCOTT HAMILTON ON BOOKPLATE OPPOSITE Title Page. Dust jacket shows light rubbing and edge wear, internally tight and crisp. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 7th printing, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear, rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Book itself is very good.

Dallas, Taylor Publishing, 1st, 1991, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 206 pages, b&w photos. A former player, scout, coach, and general manager presents reminiscences from his life in basketball.

Hardcover. Rockville Centre NY, Freshet Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w + 4 pages in color: line drawings, photos, & paintings. viii. + 96pp. + 20 pages of patterns in blue ink folow the text. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR opposite the title page.

Hardcover. Chicago, Contemporary Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 227 pages. Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro (1939-2020) was THE face of the Atlanta Braves between the Hank Aaron and the Dale Murphy eras. Joe Niekro (1944-2006) pitched for the 1987 World Series champion Minnesota Twins. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Horowitz and Harkness, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, red cloth covers with black and gilt design. SIGNED BY MARSHALL on limitation page, #461 of 500 copies. Marshall was United States Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936. B&W illustrations, clean, tight copy with a few minor scratches to front cover.

Softcover. Boulder CO, Velo Press, 1st, 2005, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictoeial wraps. Little-known Graeme Obree became international cycling's most unlikely star, capturing the public's imagination with his innovative engineering and design skills and unique training regiments. When he broke world records and won championships, the cycling authorities outlawed both his bike and his tucked riding position. He invented the "Superman" riding style and triumphed again. But while battling authorities and other cyclists, Obree was also battling a much more serious threat: bipolar disorder. In "The Flying Scotsman, Obree tells his remarkable story with brutal honesty and unexpected humor. Beginning with his troubled childhood in Ayrshire, where the bike was his only escape, Obree recounts his turbulent life and career, describing what drove him to not only break records, but to attempt suicide on three separate occasions. Long known for his courage on the track, here Obree demonstrates a different kind of courage as he movingly lays bare his struggle with manic depression.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA , Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images commemorates the sport's finest moments via the lens of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer. Featuring over 300 photos. This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Collector's Edition.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "...identifies the many economic pressures exerted on the game today and measures their effects both on the field and in the ticket office. He presents a detailed and original analysis of traditional baseball performance statistics from slugging to fielding and draws on a wealth of previously unpublished data divulged in recent collusion suits. At the heart of the controversy are the disparate claims of owners, who say they are loosing money and stay on only out of love for the game, and players, who insist they are being exploited by owner reaping huge profits."

Softcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages, illustrated with b&w and color gravure photos. SIGNED BY BOTH HERZOG AND ICHAC on front fly leaf. With a double-page map laid in. Softcover very good with a color illustrated dust jacket with light edgewear.

Phildelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st US, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt stamping, 368 pages. Four color plates, 18 reproductions of hunting pictures, 45 illustrations. Volume 7 of The Lonsdale Library. No publication date. Mild soil to covers, small embossed stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, three-quarter leather over maroon boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, 583 pages with index. More than 200 illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt & other members of the expedition, & from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. First edition with W. B. Conkey seal on copyright page. An epic story of big game hunting and specimen collecting in East Africa. The expedition was mounted jointly by Theodore Roosevelt on the expiry of his term as president, and the Smithsonian Museum. The expedition's PH was R.J. Cunninghame, with Frederick Selous playing a walk-on part. The expedition included noted zoologists of the day and Roosevelt's son, Kermit. Light chipping to lower leather corner on cover, spine shows wear at top edge. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 178 pages. B&w and color illustrations. "In 'Baseball's Hometown Teams,' one of the most thorough illustrated volumes on the minor leagues ever compiled, a lively text and hundreds of rare photos discovered in archives across the country trace the minor leagues in loving and eccentric detail. This is the complete story of the minors, from 1877, when the first minor-league squads walked onto crude makeshift fields, to today, when fans in more than 220 towns and cities across the land turn out with the first balmy days of spring to cheer their local teams." Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Doubleday/Dolphin Books, 1st., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, unnumbered pages including text by Pete Hamill & many black-and-white photographic illustrations of boxers taken in New York's boxing arenas and gyms by George Bennett. Light edgewear, rubbing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the yearlong march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the millions of young girls who played organized basketball, the hopes of the fans who sent the team an average of 125 pounds of fan mail each month, the multimillion-dollar bets of Nike, Champion, and other corporate sponsors, the promise of a new women's professional league, and not least, the hopes of female athletes across the country finally to gain the respect accorded male athletes.

Hardcover. Guilford,CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 492 pages. Here for the baseball fan, in one comprehensive volume, are Lardner's finest writings about baseball during its golden age. Out of a column written for The Saturday Evening Post evolved his most famous work, You Know Me, Al, which introduced the world to the bush-league pitcher Jack Keefe. Lardner's skills as the finest American humorist since Mark Twain are on full display in the stories "My Roomy," "Horseshoes," "Alibi Ike," and "The Yellow Kid." Also included are his outstanding journalistic pieces about the Chicago Black Sox World Series scandal of 1919 that chronicle his struggle to come to grips with a national betrayal, the memory of which still scars the sport to this day. LARDNER ON BASEBALL is a full, diverse, and exciting collection of works from a legendary writer who transformed a simple game into the stuff of great literature. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Milkweed Editions, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 252 pages. Some color photos. When National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman marry, they set out on an unusual honeymoon: a three-year, 12,000-mile journey across North America. From Alaska's Inside Passage to Florida's Key West, they traverse the continent by kayak, canoe, dogsled, and skis, encountering wildlife, sublime landscapes, and harrowing challenges.Along the way, the Freemans also bear witness to environmental degradation and climate change--from plastic-covered beaches to forest fires to retreating glaciers. And as they engage with Native and rural communities most impacted by the changes resulting from modern industrial society and meet individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the natural world, their adventure deepens in ways they never imagined. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. Barre MA, National Ski Association Of America, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. Numerous ads. Covers show wear, rear cover with crease, small stain. Otherwise clean. Mild musty odor.

Softcover. Pussan Korea, World Kuk Sool Won Association , reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 304 pages, b&w illustrations. The coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets recounts his life story, speaking out not only on the challenges of coaching a great player like Hakeem Olajuwon but also on the strategies that have led his team to two NBA titles. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ellesborough Press, Ltd., reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages, illustrated. A look at early golf in the Aberdeen area, focusing on the history of the Aberdeen Golf Club. Facsimile edition of the original 1909 edition. original full dark green morocco, gilt-stamped vignette on front, raised spine bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Unnumbered of 200 copies. SIGNED on the limitation page by J.S.R. Cruickshank, former Captain of The Royal Aberdeen Golf Club. Spine faded to brown otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, This is the English translation of Decoster's original Le Vent des Pistes, published in 2003. Edouard-Piere Decoster is the son of a French industrialist, brought up in Northern France, and only introduced to Africa as an adult through national service in the interior of Algeria. This book "relates Decoster's memories of forty years of travelling and hunting in Africa for lion, buffalo, leopard, waterbuck, kudu, eland, antelope, elephant, and just about every other creature legal to hunt. Unlike many big-game hunting books, Decoster's tales of his safaris and expeditions are tinged with romanticism and nostalgia." Chapters include: The gates to Atlantis; The lion and the warthog at the Faleme River; Akagera Game Reserve; The accident; A lion in Sologne; Eland at the ends of the earth; In Hemingway's footsteps; Dinner in the bush; On the banks of the Faro River; Embo's revenge; An invaluable network; Friends; Hunting the baboon; How to hunt a warthog; Eland of the bad moon; The kudu of Mount Gorogoza; Paka Doume - the Well-Named;. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Moffat, Yard and Co, 3rd, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 463 pages. Contains black & white photographs. Light soiling to covers.

Softcover. Barre MA, National Ski Association of America, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. First Edition Original pictorial staple-bound wrappers. Light cover wear, no writing or marks on pages, solid binding, b&w illustrations, many great period ads. Book has a mild musty odor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago,IL, Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, Early reprint, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations including full color frontispiece (see image). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with navy blue illustration. Soil and light chipping and fraying to spine and bottom edge, as well as top of front cover board (see image). Tanning to pages and boards from age. Very early reprint.

Hardcover. Toronto, Random House Of Canada, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. This is the Limited Signed Edition (#450 of 500), AUTOGRAPHED BY BOBBY ORR & HENRI RICHARD on the prelim page under a color photo of them squaring off in the 1971 Stanley Cup quarter finals. The book has a bright dust jacket and is housed in a maroon cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. All clean and bright. The Spirit of the Game is the first photo book to organize the story of hockey both chronologically and thematically, cutting across simple time lines or team-by-team organization. It is also a book full of detail about how hockey has changed - from skates to TV cameras, from the rule book to the fans in the seats. Photos span 106 years from the Montreal AAA, Senior Amateur champions of 1889, to the New Jersey Devils, Stanley Cup champions of 1995.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw's New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Lippincott & Crowell, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 241 pages, b&w illustrations. A scrapbook of baseball nostalgia which, in well-chosen words and rare photographs, traces the evolution of our national game.' Includes sections on the Abner Doubleday/Cooperstown controversy, ball parks, superstitions, black history, and more.

Hardcover. Boston, Williams Book Store, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 409 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of American firearms. Begins with a treatise advocating the personal possession of guns and rifles. Then describes hundreds of rifles with their images and technical details from the flint lock to carbines used against us. Also covers present manufacture and manufacturers, rifleman and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 306 pages, b&w photos. Don Baylor explores every facet of his career. In 1988, he became the first baseball player in history to go to the World Series for three consecutive years with three different teams. Fans know him as a frank, thoughtful man who speaks his mind about the game and his peers. In this book, he takes the reader onto the field and into the clubhouse with a rich blend of anecdotes and insights about the game he played - and studied - for more than twenty years. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 683 pages, b&w illustrations. He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport--not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey--the man sportswriters dubbed "The Brain," "The Mahatma," and, on occasion, "El Cheapo"--Lee Lowenfish tells the full and colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America's game. As the mastermind behind the Saint Louis Cardinals from 1917 to 1942, Rickey created the farm system, which allowed small-market clubs to compete with the rich and powerful. Under his direction in the 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers became truly the first "America's team." By signing Jackie Robinson and other black players, he single-handedly thrust baseball into the forefront of the civil rights movement. Lowenfish evokes the peculiarly American complex of God, family, and baseball that informed Rickey's actions and his accomplishments. His book offers an intriguing, richly detailed portrait of a man whose life is itself a crucial chapter in the history of American business, sport, and society.

Barre, VGT, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ltd. to 1,000 copies. #110. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR MICHAEL MCCURDY. In slipcase. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Silver City NM, High-Lonesome Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 219 pages, b&w illustrations. There is abundant information in this book about catfishing and other outdoor sports. But there is much more. There is insight into people met along the way on the author's journey around the country, into the author himself and his family, into our society in the nineties and its apparently weakening ties to all things natural. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minocqua, WI, Willow Creek Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER). In excellent shape. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, clean inside and out.

Hardcover. Dallas, Taylor Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Includes appendix of player statistics. Recalls the record-breaking New York Yankees, the only team in baseball history to win five consecutive World Series, offering the remembrances of the greatest Bronx Bombers. 228 pages, b&w photos.