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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1962. Stated First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with red lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 236 pages. Dust jacket is clean except for tiny spot of soiling at lower corner tips. Very slight edge wear and a few tiny closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This is the story of sixty-one home runs, told simply and honestly by the man who hit them, from his discouraging, practically hitless spring to the exhilarating October 1 climax that put Roger Maris on top of the world.the man with more home runs in a single season than anyone in history. Roger's own frank and moving story of a year to remember in baseball, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs..
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East Side, West Side: Tales of New York Sporting Life, 1910-1960
by Ritter, Lawrence S.
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THE BIG RED MACHINE
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0130761907 . Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends, previous owner's pasted stamp to 1/2 title page, offsetting to FFE opposite from stamp else a bright, solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with rubbing to edge, bumping to spine ends, small chip from head of spine else a bright and solid copy. Book is signed/inscribed by 3 Cincinatti Reds - signature & inscription from Ted Kluszewski to FFE, signatures from Johnny Bench & Pete Rose to title page. Book includes an NBC press pass for Game 5 of the 1976 World Series. This is significant because there wasn't a Game 5. The Reds swept the Yankees 4 straight games. A truly unique item.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Players .
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THE SUMMER GAME
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New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 303 pages; VG/VG; spine is white with green, black, and blue lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut, '$7.50', has mild wear along the top and bottom edges, has minor discoloration; binding has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, has bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have occasional minor pen markings; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1321406. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Boston Red Sox 1962 Yearbook
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Boston Red Sox 1962 Yearbook. Statistics for the 1961 season, the rookie year of Carl Yastrzemski. Signed by Yaz at his picture. Also signed by Frank Malzone at his picture.The cover signatures are Mike Fornieles, Earl Wilson and what appears to be Chuck Schilling. Very good condition.
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Strikeout Story
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A.S. Barnes and Company, New York. First edition. Book in Near Fine condition. Green pictorial dust jacket has several tears and chips in Good- condition. Dust jacket spine is sunned. 258 pp. Text is white, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated with many b/w photographs. Signed by Feller in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Baseball Hall of Famer's autobiography in excellent condition.
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St. Louis Cardinals, the Story of a Great Baseball Club, the
by Lieb, Frederick G.
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Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Third impression of 2nd printing, VG/G+ as much soiling and chips to dj, spot on tp, ill., signed by author on fep. Lieb wrote for 30 years and has insider views of how the club became so popular and successful at winning. He rarely signed his book.
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THE BIG RED MACHINE
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New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0130761907 . Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends, previous owner's pasted stamp to 1/2 title page, offsetting to FFE opposite from stamp else a bright, solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with rubbing to edge, bumping to spine ends, small chip from head of spine else a bright and solid copy. Book is signed/inscribed by 3 Cincinatti Reds - signature & inscription from Ted Kluszewski to FFE, signatures from Johnny Bench & Pete Rose to title page. Book includes an NBC press pass for Game 5 of the 1976 World Series. This is significant because there wasn't a Game 5. The Reds swept the Yankees 4 straight games. A truly unique item.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Players .
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Boston Red Sox 1962 Yearbook. Statistics for the 1961 season, the rookie year of Carl Yastrzemski. Signed by Yaz at his picture. Also signed by Frank Malzone at his picture.The cover signatures are Mike Fornieles, Earl Wilson and what appears to be Chuck Schilling. Very good condition.
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The Babe: A Life in Pictures
by Ritter, Lawrence S. (and Mark Rucker)
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New York, Ticknor and Fields, 1988, large format hardcover (9" x 12"), 282 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould on the title page. Inscription reads "For Stephen Jay Gould with all good wishes - Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light spine-end and corner nicks and bumps. The premier sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written presents what has been described as "easily the best pictorial biography of the Sultan of Swat...from boyhood days in his father's saloon in Baltimore, his formative years at St. Mary's, his early playing days in Baltimore and Providence, his rise to stardom as a member of the Boston Red Sox, the legendary years…
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Classic Baseball Cards: The Golden Years, 1886-1956
by Frank Slocum
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Book is in new condition. Dj Very good: some shelf wear along edges and three small tears along top (2) and bottom (1) of spine. Stated "First printing November, 1987" on publication page Pages are not numbered. Dimensions: Apx, 36 x 27 x4 cm. This book is very heavy and will probably required additional shipping charges for international sale.
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Roger Maris At Bat
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Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9000 8.0000 5.6000. Hard cover in dust jacket.� Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author Jim Ogle with an inscription to previous holder on front free endpaper. Dated by Ogle in 1998. Clean text -- NO writing, NO highlighting to text.� From the library of Don Biebel """"Chicago Cubs 1950-65, minor league player, manager, scout, traveling Secretary, director of public relations Kansas City Athletics 1966.""). Front pastedown has an ownership sticker with Don Biebel's name in the form of a Chicago Cubs baseball. Light bump to fore-edge head corner. Boards are rubbed at spine hinge. Very Good- Dust jacket has some surface rubbing to front panel and one rubbed line from head to foot on spine. VG-/VG-
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ROGER MARIS AT BAT
by maris,roger and jim ogle
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DUELL,SLOAN AND PEARCE, 1962 HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET [$2.95] IS VERY GOOD,GIFT SIGNATURE ON FIRST BLANK PAGE. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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A near mint first edition of this baseball classic. Moneybag, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis.States "first edition."
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader
by Roger Angell
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The late Roger Angell is considered by many to be the greatest baseball writer of all time. Once More Around the Park contains previously unpublished material as well as selections from his published works.A first edition. Very good+ book in very good + jacket.
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A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone
by Roger Angell
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A Pitcher's Story, Innings with David Cone, by Roger Angell represents a meeting between one of baseball's greatest writers and one of its greatest pitchers.First edition. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Baseball card featuring Cone with the Kansas City Royals laid in.
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The "Hard-To-Please-Player" Will Find What he Wants in These 30 Famous Player's Models of the Louisville Slugger Line ( Promotional Sheet )
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Louisville, KY: Hillerich & Bradsby , 1938. One Sheet, Folded to make 4 pages, 8 1/2 " x 11". Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good Plus, small tear at center crease. Two holes punched for a ring binder. Features photos of professional players Zeke Bonura and Buddy York, and the roster of 30 player's models includes Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott, Babe Ruth, Paul Waner, and Rogers Hornsby, among others. Center 2 pages feature "Some of the Many Steps in Making Baseball Bats". . First Edition. One Sheet, Folded. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8 1/2 " x 11".
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The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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A first edition of The Catcher Was A Spy, The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff.Signed by the author.Book is fine in fine jacket. Previous owner's name on ffep.States "first edition" and contains number line beginning with 1.
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The Story of Baseball
by Ritter, Lawrence S
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New York, William Morrow & Co., 1983, hardcover, pp.vii-150, Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed by the author on the title page "Merry Christmas-Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean, wear to bottom corners, tiny ink mark to bottom edge of text block. Dustjacket, edge nicks, short edge tears with some crumple, chips to spine ends, in new Brodart sleeve. The fundamentals of the game of baseball and an introduction to the great players of the past by the author of 'The Glory of Their Times'. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Introduction by Ted Williams. Index appended. ISBN 9780688017248
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Ball Four Plus Ball Five: An Update 1970-1980
by Jim Bouton
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Ball Four Plus Ball Four, An Update 1970-1980 by Jim Bouton. This first edition incorporates the entire text of Ball Four and includes new chapter's on Bouton's life since he left baseball, along with an update on his old teammates.Book and dust jacket both very good. The book is signed twice by Bouton. Once on ffep, inscribed "To R . . . best wishes" and includes the date (4-81). It is also signed by Bouton on the title page.
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I Live For This: Baseball's Last True Believer
by Bill Plaschke & Tommy Lasorda
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I Live For This by Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda. Inscribed by Plaschke: "To . . ." and boldly signed by Lasorda. Book is fine in fine jacket. Complete number line beginning with 1.
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