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Hardcover:

9781451696028 | Simon & Schuster, August 11, 2015, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9781451696035 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 23, 2016), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Baseball is known as Americas pastime, and it has plenty of history to explore. Readers will love learning wacky facts about baseball and discover who holds some of its most elusive records, like the rare unassisted triple play! The longest game in Major League history and some of its most amazing seasons are also explored with exciting photographs and engaging graphics to help chronicle these feats...read more

Paperback:

9781482439656 | Gareth Stevens Pub, January 15, 2016, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: Baseball is known as Americas pastime, and it has plenty of history to explore.

Library:

9781482439670 | Gareth Stevens Pub, January 15, 2016, cover price $25.25 | About this edition: Presents a collection of facts about baseball, covering everything from the measurements of different baseball stadiums to the special detergent used by teams to clean uniforms.

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Library:

9781680780017 | Sportszone, January 1, 2016, cover price $32.79

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Product Description: When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime...read more

Paperback:

9780786479320 | 2 edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 13, 2015), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind.

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Product Description: Why does a curveball curve? What is a “can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the “Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?In this reissue of Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed! For example, the reason a curveball curves is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster than it does across the opposite surface...read more

Hardcover:

9781616081966 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, March 9, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Why does a curveball curve?

Paperback:

9781632203144 | Reprint edition (Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, April 7, 2015), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Why does a curveball curve?

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Product Description: The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless. Bats break, balls carom wildly, personalities clash, and playing fields are invaded by uninvited guests. Mudville Madness is for baseball fans who seek something beyond the standard boxscores—something new or rarely encountered...read more

Paperback:

9781589799561 | Taylor Pub, June 6, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The extent to which remarkable things can happen on a baseball field is virtually limitless.

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Product Description: Who were the best ballplayers of all time? It's an endless question, but here's something much more fun: Who was the worst of all time? Who was the lousiest pitcher? The biggest goat? The most despicable owner? The most over-paid bum? Finally, Filip Bondy answers these questions, wielding his own brand of formidable research, advanced sabermetrics and considerable wit to provide this indispensable guide to the less glorious side of our national pastime...read more

Hardcover:

9780385536127 | Doubleday, March 26, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates about who the best ballplayers of all time were—but how many times can you argue about Mantle vs.

Paperback:

9780307950413 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 25, 2014), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Who were the best ballplayers of all time?

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Product Description: Adjust your helmet and step up to the plate to meet some of the oddest players, fans, managers, and mascots of America’s favorite pastime—all told through comic strips! Some of the moments in these stories are silly, while others are surprising, funny, or maybe even a little gruesome...read more
By Stacy Curtis (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781477816011, titled "Odd Ball: Hilarious, Unusual, & Bizarre Baseball Moments" | Reprint edition (Amazon Childrens Pub, January 21, 2014), cover price $9.99 | also contains Odd Ball: Hilarious, Unusual, & Bizarre Baseball Moments | About this edition: Adjust your helmet and step up to the plate to meet some of the oddest players, fans, managers, and mascots of America’s favorite pastime—all told through comic strips!

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Product Description: Adjust your helmet and step up to the plate to meet some of the oddest players, fans, managers, and mascots of America’s favorite pastime—all told through comic strips! Some of the moments in these stories are silly, while others are surprising, funny, or maybe even a little gruesome...read more
By Stacy Curtis (illustrator) and Timothy Tocher

Paperback:

9781477816011 | Reprint edition (Amazon Childrens Pub, January 21, 2014), cover price $9.99 | also contains Odd Ball: Hilarious, Unusual, and Bizarre Baseball Moments | About this edition: Adjust your helmet and step up to the plate to meet some of the oddest players, fans, managers, and mascots of America’s favorite pastime—all told through comic strips!

School and Library:

9780761458135 | Amazon Childrens Pub, February 1, 2011, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Adjust your helmet and step up to the plate to meet some of the oddest players, fans, managers, and mascots of America’s favorite pastime—all told through comic strips!

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Product Description: Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true.The national pastime's most basic elements have often been misunderstood, misremembered, and otherwise mis'ed throughout the years. Along the way hyperbole has mixed with history, exaggeration has substituted for explanation, and fallacy has co-existed with fact...read more

Hardcover:

9781612345604 | Potomac Books Inc, March 31, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Baseball is the most storied of American sports, but not all the stories are true.

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9781476500478 | Sports Illustrated for Kids, January 1, 2013, cover price $35.32 | About this edition: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

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Product Description: Get everything you ever wanted to know about America's pastime in FULL COUNT: TOP 10 LISTS OF EVERYTHING IN BASEBALL . Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of the game...read more

Hardcover:

9781618930064 | Sports Illustrated, September 18, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Get everything you ever wanted to know about America's pastime in FULL COUNT: TOP 10 LISTS OF EVERYTHING IN BASEBALL .

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Library:

9781429692175 | Bilingual edition (Pebble Bilingue/Bilingual, August 1, 2012), cover price $25.99

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Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Baseball. George Bowering is fond of baseball, and he likes the alphabet. Having written a few baseball books and a few alphabet books over the years, he decided to write a baseball alphabet book. THE DIAMOND ALPHABET is made up of 130 between-innings takes, five for each letter...read more

Paperback:

9781897388945 | Bookthug, November 1, 2011, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Literary Nonfiction.

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Product Description: Baseball fans eat more than 30 million hot dogs every year. Want to know other cool baseball facts? Check out this book. Its a grand slam!

Paperback:

9781429673761 | Pebble Plus, August 1, 2011, cover price $7.29 | About this edition: Baseball fans eat more than 30 million hot dogs every year.

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Product Description: Baseball is much more than a game. As the American national pastime, it has reflected the political and cultural concerns of US society for over 200 years, and generates passions and loyalties unique in American society. This Companion examines baseball in culture, baseball as culture, and the game's global identity...read more
By Stephen Partridge (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521761826 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 21, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Baseball is much more than a game.

Paperback:

9780521145756 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 21, 2011, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Baseball is much more than a game.

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Product Description: Play Ball! Everything baseball―from the popular Utterly Confused Series What's a foul ball? Or a swinging third strike? New fans, parents, and first-time coaches need no longer be Utterly Confused about baseball, as the popular series introduces the basics of the sport in a fun and easy-to-follow guide...read more

Paperback:

9780071634748 | McGraw-Hill, January 25, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Play Ball!

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140868937, titled "The Tempest: Arkangel Shakespeare" | Penguin/Highbridge, August 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | also contains The Tempest: Arkangel Shakespeare | About this edition: In this last and most mysterious of Shakespeare's plays, Prospero, magician and philosopher, has been banished to an Island where he lives with his daughter Miranda, and two sprats, the ethereal Ariel and the earthly Caliban.

Product Description: Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist. Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned paleontologist published numerous essays on the sport; these have now been collected in a volume alive with the candor and insight that characterized all of Gould's writing...read more

Hardcover:

9780224050425 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 15, 2004), cover price $32.30 | About this edition: Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion.
9780393057553 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays on baseball share the author's love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, and the contradictions of being a lifelong Yankees fan with Red Sox season tickets.

Paperback:

9780393325577 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on baseball by the late evolutionary biologist and author of Ever Since Darwin shares his love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, the demise of the .

Prebinding:

9781435290471 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.

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Product Description: In this last and most mysterious of Shakespeare's plays, Prospero, magician and philosopher, has been banished to an Island where he lives with his daughter Miranda, and two sprats, the ethereal Ariel and the earthly Caliban. When a ship is wrecked on the shore of the island, the years of isolation are over...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140868937 | Penguin/Highbridge, August 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | also contains Baseball for the Utterly Confused | About this edition: In this last and most mysterious of Shakespeare's plays, Prospero, magician and philosopher, has been banished to an Island where he lives with his daughter Miranda, and two sprats, the ethereal Ariel and the earthly Caliban.

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