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Pyramid G-392, 1959. "The greatest fireballers, fencebusters, and speed merchants in the game today. Here are their thrilling stories, lifetime records, and action pictures. Fascinating inside facts about the big pros and whiz kids who will make baseball fans stand up and cheer in 1959!"; includes pieces on Bob Turley, Warren Spahn, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Bill Mazeroski, Stan Musial, Ernie Banks, and many others; 158 pgs. incl. World Series Record Section, illustrated; slant, wa... more information

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Pyramid R-1336, 1966. Stories of baseball's mid-sixties heroes. Included are articles on Roberto Clemente, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Rocky Colavito, Jim Grant, Maury Wills, Zoilo Versalles, Mickey Mantle, Tony Oliva, Hank Aaron, Richie Allen, and many others. 156 pages (including 1965 Final Standings and World Series Statistics), illustrated. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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Chicago: Goldsmith, 1936. Marty Gage is the son of a big-league baseball manager, and he's travelling the country with the team, learning more about baseball than Abner Doubleday and Chuck Tanner combined (okay, well, maybe not *that* much), and facing a few obstacles besides. Moderate spine end wear, smudged/lightly soiled top edge. Dust jacket w/small chip out of top edge of front panel, small chip out of bottom edge of front panel, 1/4" tear to top of front panel, tiny chip and 3/8" tear ... more information

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Seal 42720, 1995. an anecdotal collection of jokes and true sports stories, typified by this little gem: "Flight attendant to Heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali: 'Please Mr. Ali, fasten your seat-belt.' 'Superman don't need no seat-belt.' 'Yeah, and superman [sic] don't need no plane either!'"; Christmas gift inscription to previous owner, light general wear; internally tight;. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. a collection of eleven stories featuring a variety of crazies, neurotics, and misfits who are nonetheless all-American boys playing the American game; decorated red cloth, 238 pgs.; moderate wear to corners/spine ends, spotted/foxed edges, small holes to rear gutter (apparently a bookworm found it a tasty treat), bookseller's sticker to top right corner of front free end paper; dj w/edgewear, chipping, sunned spine, edge tears, general wear;. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. ... more information

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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995. First printing w/complete number sequence. The fourth Kate Henry mystery, this one finding our intrepid sportswriter involved with a murder which takes place during the summer of 1994, when spoiled, whiny, greedy, arrogant baseball player-pigs are at odds with spoiled, whiny, greedy, arrogant baseball owner-pigs who together are subjecting baseball fans to a strike which would be totally unnecessary if either side had half the sense or class God gave a newly-decapitat... more information

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Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989. the story of the Toronto Blue Jays' All-Star catcher, the last of the original Blue Jays, from sandlot to the big leagues;. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1985. Contains predictions for Major League Baseball's 1985 season, as well as information on the teams, players, rosters, schedules, 1984 statistics, and more. 160 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.. Magazine. Very Good. Small Quarto -- from 9¾" to 12" tall. ... more information

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St. Louis: Sporting News Publishing, 1982. Contains team-by-team reports and predictions for the 1982 Major League Baseball season, as well as articles on the teams and players, rosters, schedules, and much else. Fernando Valenzuela and Rollie Fingers are pictured on the front cover. 160 pages, illustrated. Vertical crease to back cover, light general wear.. Magazine. Very Good. Small Quarto -- from 9¾" to 12" tall. ... more information

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St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1984. Contains predictions for Major League Baseball's 1984 season, as well as information on the teams, players, rosters, schedules, 1984 statistics, fold-out schedules for both divisions in both leagues, and more. 160 pages, illustrated. Rubbing, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.. Magazine. Very Good. Small Quarto -- from 9¾" to 12" tall. ... more information

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St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1992. Contains a look back at the stats and players of the 1991 Major League Baseball season, and a look ahead at the 1992 campaign. Features articles on Cecil Fielder, Ron Gant, Cal Ripken, Roberto Alomar, Larry Walker, and much else. 136 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear.. Magazine. Very Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1983. Contains a look back at the stats and players of the 1982 Major League Baseball season, and a look ahead at the 1983 campaign. Features an article by Roger Kahn, 25 years after Brooklyn's beloved bums left New York for the other coast, with stories on Eddie Murray, Robin Yount, Ozzie Smith, and much else. 160 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear.. Magazine. Very Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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West Plains: Bruce Hershenson, 1996. From ancient sports to wrestling, hockey to horse racing (and most things in between), this one features reproductions of hundreds of full-colour posters advertising movies with a sporting theme. Cover poster is a reproduction of the only known copy (at least, at the time of publication) of "Babe Comes Home," a baseball movie starring some guy named Ruth. Unpaginated. A hint of general wear.. First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Near Fine. Quarto -- from 9.75"... more information

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Millbrae: Celestial Arts, 1974. From baseball to auto racing, boxing to football, these are thumbnail sketches of forty-six of the greatest sporting events of the century (up until 1974, at any rate). One has to wonder, though, at a book of sporting highlights, and not one of them having anything to do with hockey. 96 pages (including 1-page ad for other CA titles), illustrated. Rubbing, some soil, light edgewear.. 1st printing. Stiff Card Wraps. Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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New York: Sports Media Corporation, 1985. Contains articles on Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets, a preview of the 1985 MLB season, Marvin Hagler/Thomas Hearns, the Masters, the Final 4, Glen Sather, coach of the Edmonton Oilers, and much else. Possibly the most moving piece amongst the "much else" (and the entire issue, actually) is Havelock Hewes's essay about the dead-far-too-early singer/songwriter Steve Goodman and the baseball which Chicago Cubs outfielder Keith Moreland signed and ask... more information

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Toronto: Telemedia Sports Publishing Group/Telemedia Communications/The Fan 590, 1997. A collectible baseball magazine containing "in-depth previews and fantasy projections" for all of Major League Baseball's players for the 1997 season. Includes scouting reports on more than 1,200 players, a list of the top 300 prospects, and much else. Cover features Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Pat Hentgen, with an inset of Mark Grudzielanek of the now defunct Montreal Expos. 264 pages, illustrated. Light ... more information

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TorontoToronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good to Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Octavo--from 7¾" to 9¾" tall. a baseball mystery; introduces Kate Henry, baseball beat writer making her way through a long season until her team's designated hitter turns up dead; dj illustration by N.R. Jackson; bumps to spine ends, faint edge soil; rubbed dj w/moderate edgewear, vertical crease to front flap;. ... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap. reissues the 1947 A.S. Barnes edition; a title from the publisher's Big League Baseball Library series, "full of anecdotes about Bob's early training (by his father, whom he credits as being the greatest factor in his success), about his first big-league game, his legal troubles with Judge Landis (never before told), his career in the Navy, his marriage, and his record-breaking feats since the war."; decorated grey cloth, 249 pgs., illustrated; bumped/lightl... more information

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New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1965. "This volume is the first complete record and interpretation of Jewish participation in all fields of sports in all countries." Foreword by Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Brown cloth, 526 pages, illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Quarto -- from 9.75" to 12" tall. ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1985. Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. From pioneers such as Jackie Robinson and Willie O'Ree and Althea Gibson, to icons such as Muhammad Ali and Walter Payton and Jim Brown, this is "a sweeping and comprehensive look at black athletes in American sports." Contains hundreds of action photographs celebrating "close to 1,000 personalities, from the early days of organized sports in the late nineteenth century to the present.&q... more information

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