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Boston Red Sox and the Meaning of Life

Product Description: âIf we could have scored one more run than the White Sox in each game, I think we would have won the seriesâ---so opined Boston manager Terry Francona. Sharp observations such as this have brightened the Red Sox Nation through the years...read more

By Mark Rucker

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9780760335062 | 1 edition (Motorbooks Intl, May 3, 2009), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: âIf we could have scored one more run than the White Sox in each game, I think we would have won the seriesâ---so opined Boston manager Terry Francona.

Detroit Sluggers: The First 75 Years

Product Description: Ever since the city was granted its fi rst major-league team, the Wolverines in 1881, Detroit baseball fans have packed the parks to loyally cheer for their favorite sluggers at the plate. Big Dan Brouthers helped the Detroit ball club win its first National League pennant with 12 home runs, 101 RBIs, and a league-leading 153 runs scored in 1887...read more

By Mark Rucker

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9780738539904 | Arcadia Pub, May 31, 2006, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Ever since the city was granted its fi rst major-league team, the Wolverines in 1881, Detroit baseball fans have packed the parks to loyally cheer for their favorite sluggers at the plate.

Detroit Aces: The First 75 Years

By Mark Rucker

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9780738539911 | Arcadia Pub, April 26, 2006, cover price $21.99

Peverelly's National Game

Product Description: Peverelly's Book of American Pastimes, which covered several sports from badminton to horseracing, is best known for its dominant chapter on base ball, "The National Game." It is the first historical-reference book ever published about the sport, and includes the rosters of the most prominent early clubs with results of games played from their beginnings through 1866...read more

By John K. Freyer, Charles A. Peverelly, Mark Rucker and John Thorn (introduced by)

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9780738534046 | Arcadia Pub, July 6, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Peverelly's Book of American Pastimes, which covered several sports from badminton to horseracing, is best known for its dominant chapter on base ball, "The National Game.

New York Aces: The First 75 Years

Covers the history of pitching in the Big Apple, where various pitching styles were invented; Christy Mathewson, Iron Man McGinnity, and Rube Marquard all won more than two hundred games in the majors; the Yankees won their first championship; and pitching was both effective and exciting for New York fans, whether in Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds. Original.

By Mark Rucker

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9780738537849 | Arcadia Pub, June 22, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Covers the history of pitching in the Big Apple, where various pitching styles were invented; Christy Mathewson, Iron Man McGinnity, and Rube Marquard all won more than two hundred games in the majors; the Yankees won their first championship; and pitching was both effective and exciting for New York fans, whether in Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds.

New York Sluggers: The First 75 Years

Product Description: New York City was the original hotbed of baseball, so it is not surprising that fans in the five boroughs are very knowledgeable about the game. It did not take long after baseball was established in the city in the late 1850s for heavy hitters to rise in popularity...read more

By Mark Rucker

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9780738537856 | Arcadia Pub, June 1, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: New York City was the original hotbed of baseball, so it is not surprising that fans in the five boroughs are very knowledgeable about the game.

Chicago Aces: The First 75 Years

Presents a pictorial history of prominent pitchers from Chicago baseball teams, from 1876 to 1950.

By John K. Freyer and Mark Rucker

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9780738534114 | Arcadia Pub, May 18, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Presents a pictorial history of prominent pitchers from Chicago baseball teams, from 1876 to 1950.

Chicago Sluggers: The First 75 Years

Offers a visual tour of Chicago's rich baseball history from 1876 through 1950.

By John K. Freyer and Mark Rucker

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9780738533940 | Arcadia Pub, May 18, 2005, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Offers a visual tour of Chicago's rich baseball history from 1876 through 1950.

Baseball In Washington, D.c.: Images Of America

By Frank Ceresi and Mark Rucker

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9780756777814 | Diane Pub Co, April 2, 2004, cover price $20.00

The Beer and Whiskey League: The Illustrated History of the American Association--Baseball's Renegade Major League

By David Nemec and Mark Rucker (editor)

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9781592281886 | Lyons Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $18.95

19th Century Baseball in Chicago

Over 150 vintage images offer a pictorial look at the beginning of Chicago's love of baseball which began well before the opening of the 1876 season.

By John K. Freyer and Mark Rucker

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9780738531816 | Arcadia Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Over 150 vintage images offer a pictorial look at the beginning of Chicago's love of baseball which began well before the opening of the 1876 season.

Smoke

By Mark Rucker

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9781894963145 | Sportclassic Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $19.95

Boston Red Sox: From Cy to the Kid

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By Bernard M. Corbett and Mark Rucker

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9780738511535 | Arcadia Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $21.99

The Brooklyn Dodgers

Product Description: If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn.ÃÂThe legacy of this relationship comes down to us in stories of childhoods spent at Ebbets Field and in the stories of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, whose courage changed the face of America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mark Rucker

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9780738510057 | Arcadia Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: If there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn.

Baseball in Washington, D.C.

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By Frank Ceresi, Carol McMains and Mark Rucker

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9780738514208 | Arcadia Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $21.99

The Babe: The Game That Ruth Built

With 350 color and black-and-white photographs of the Babe in action, this stirring retrospective captures the baseball legends greatest moments.

By Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark Rucker

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9781930844056 | Total Sports, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With 350 color and black-and-white photographs of the Babe in action, this stirring retrospective captures the baseball legends greatest moments.

Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball

Exploring the history and variety of Cuban baseball, a unique exploration of this 'last frontier' of American sport uses photographs, statistics, and baseball lore to trace the sport's history, from its origins in the 1970s to the current American love affair with their version of the game. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Peter C. Bjarkman and Mark Rucker

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9781892129321 | Total/Sports Illustrated, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Explores the history and variety of Cuban baseball through photographs, statistics, and baseball lore

9780756779252 | Diane Pub Co, May 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Shrouded in mystery for decades, Cuban baseball has become the final frontier for fans of the sport in America.

Baseball for the Fun of It

By Mark Rucker (editor)

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9780910137690 | Society for Amer Baseball, December 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

The Babe: The Game That Ruth Built

Text and photographs highlight the astonishing career of baseball's legendary 'Babe' Ruth, from his awakening talent at a Baltimore boys' school to his tenure with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees

By Hank Aaron, Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark Rucker (editor)

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9780965694902 | Hardcover with CD edition (Total Sports, October 1, 1997), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Text and photographs highlight the astonishing career of baseball's legendary 'Babe' Ruth, from his awakening talent at a Baltimore boys' school to his tenure with the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees

Baseball's First Stars

By Frederick Ivor-Campbell (editor), Mark Rucker (editor) and Robert L. Tiemann (editor)

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9780910137584 | Society for Amer Baseball, January 1, 1995, cover price $14.95

Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid

Uses photographs to trace the life and career of Ted Williams, and attempts to depict his complex personality

By Richard Cramer and Mark Rucker (editor)

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9780135156933 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall Direct, September 1, 1991), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Uses photographs to trace the life and career of Ted Williams, and attempts to depict his complex personality

Nineteenth Century Stars

Product Description: From the Introduction:Â When baseball evolved in the nineteenth century from a child's game to adult social recreation to professional sport, the very best players emerged into the public consciousness to become America's first sports heroes...read more

By Mark Rucker (editor) and Robert L. Tiemann (editor)

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9780910137355 | Society for Amer Baseball, December 1, 1989, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: From the Introduction:Â When baseball evolved in the nineteenth century from a child's game to adult social recreation to professional sport, the very best players emerged into the public consciousness to become America's first sports heroes.

The Official Baseball Hall of Fame Fun and Fact Sticker Book

Product Description: 100 full-color stickers PLUS games, activities, puzzles, trivia, quizzes records, playing tips, profiles of hall-of-famers, and much more!

By Bob Carroll and Mark Rucker

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9780671673789 | Aladdin Paperbacks, March 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: 100 full-color stickers PLUS games, activities, puzzles, trivia, quizzes records, playing tips, profiles of hall-of-famers, and much more!

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History : Spring 1985, No. 1

Product Description: The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often surprising views of past players, teams, and events...read more

By Bill Felber (contributor), Mark Rucker (contributor) and John Thorn (editor)

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9780910137119 | Society for Amer Baseball, March 1, 1985, cover price $6.00 | About this edition: The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else.

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