baseball

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. A fascinating collection of news clippings from various papers (mostly from New York) detailing the 1908 National League pennant race. the author adds clarifications of references made by the scribes that may be unknown to today's reader and occasional footnotes but otherwise lets the articles speak for themselves. The 1908 baseball season culminated in a virtual three team tie until a tie breaker was played on October 8th. if you're a nostaglia buff, avid baseball fan or interested in popular styles of writing from long ago you will enjoy this book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated by Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 327 pages, b&w illustrations. This engaging collection of 11 interviews with some of baseball's best players from the 1950s and 1960s, whose salaries were often less than $10,000, might have been better subtitled, "And, Come to Think of It, We Did" (play for nothing, that is). But those guys could play. Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent just starts the tape and lets them talk. There's Ralph Branca, alternately bitter and philosophical about the Shot Heard 'Round the World that Bobby Thompson hit off him in 1951; Harmon Killebrew downplaying the monster homers he hit off everybody; Whitey Ford (236-106 lifetime) sharing great Yankee stories; and Brooks Robinson marveling more at his great peers than at his own illustrious career. Other interviewees include Bill Rigney, Duke Snider, Robin Roberts, Carl Erskine, Lew Burdette, Frank Robinson, and Billy Williams. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Triumph Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. 306 pages, b&w illustrations. Taking a decade-by-decade approach to the Chicago Cubs baseball tradition, this collection brings together over 40 stories from the most outstanding voices of the team. The spirit of Cubs baseball is not captured by just one phrase, one season, or one particular game; instead, the players and managers who made the magic happen over the decades blend their experiences to capture the true essence of their beloved team. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series that pitted the heavily favored Cubs of the National League against the hardscrabble American League champion White Sox. Now, more than a century later, noted historian Bernard A. Weisberger tells the tale of a unique time in baseball, a unique time in America, and a time when Chicago was at the center of it all. 213 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch. Watercolors by Barry Moser. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. 302 pages, top edge gilt. Nostalgic picture of a boy's childhood in the 1900s. School, Goin' fishin," baseball and the circus are all part of this story with line drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Mild shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 200 pages. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, and we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form "sports cartooning "and to its greatest practitioner, Willard Mullin. Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin's best drawings devoted to baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. black and white illustrations and color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 186 pages, b&w illustrations. This book looks at ten top world series thrills from 1912 to 1960 featuring the likes of Ruth, Maz, Larsen, Stengel, Johnson , Diz and more. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, some pencil marks on contents page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 248 pages. Clean copy. Tunis' World Series is Book #2 in his 8- book series on the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball -- World Series champs.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.