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• Homestand

  Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America

  Bardenwerper, Will,

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  A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America - written by an acclaimed journalist who went from Princeton to Army Ranger School to Iraq in search of the core values he ended up finding in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Team

  the Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

  Epplin, Luke,

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  Traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Metropolitans

  New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team

  Gittlitz, A. M.,

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  A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Mets. Metropolitans is for Mets fans, New York partisans, and everyone interested in the Mobius strip…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Catcher Was a Spy

  the Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

  Dawidoff, Nicholas

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  Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA. For Berg was much more than a third-string catcher who played on several major league teams between 1923 and 1939. Educated at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dixon Cornbelt League, and Other Baseball Stories

  Kinsella, W. P.

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  From the author of Shoeless Joe-the basis for the film Field of Dreams-come baseball stories. Shortstops who run with the wolves, painted eggs that reveal deeply disturbing meanings, long-dead Hall of Famers who miraculously return to the game, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eephus

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  Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler's Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can't run as fast as they used to or connect as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Soul of Baseball

  a Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

  Posnanski, Joe

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  When legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, the renowned sports columnist was inspired by the question. He decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wait Till Next Year

  a Memoir

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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  Wait Till Next Year is the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, when owning a single-family home on a tree-lined street meant the realization of dreams, when everyone knew everyone else on the block, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

  1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

  Mahler, Jonathan, 1969-

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  Masterful . . . In Mahler's expert hands, the city's outsized citizens are flawed, fierce, bickersome, and as indomitable as the metropolis itself." --Mike Sokolove, author of The Ticket Out A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of…Read moreRead more of this annotation