You're Missin' a Great Game; From Casey to Ozzie, the Magic of Baseball and How to Get it Back
by Whitey Herzog, Jonathan Pitts
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684853140
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853147
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€18.64€13.05
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon and Schuster, 1999 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1999. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail; one dogeared page. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head, tail, an top edge. Red boards with brown overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 314 pp 8vo. An outstanding major league manager talks a hard look at baseball and talks about what is wrong with the sport today and why it is losing its fan support. Stressing fundamentals, the diluted talent pool, expansion, and salaries distracting players are only a few of the areas the author hits on in this book. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011840
- Title
- You're Missin' a Great Game; From Casey to Ozzie, the Magic of Baseball and How to Get it Back
- Author
- Whitey Herzog, Jonathan Pitts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684853140
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853147
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- WHITEY HERZOG, KANSAS CITY ROYALS, CASEY STENGEL, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, BASE STEALING, HOME RUNS, BASEBALL EXPANSION TEAMS, New York Yankees, World Series of Baseball, Baseball scouting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Baseball; Memoirs;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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