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Be the One: a Novel by April Smith
Returning to Los Angeles from a trip to the Dominican Republic with Alberto Cruz, the teenage baseball star she discovered, and seductive developer Joe Galinis, hard-living female baseball scout Cassidy Sanderson discovers that they all have become entangled in a blackmail scheme marked by violence, voodoo, deception, and betrayal.
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Big Papi: My Stories of Big Dreams and Big Hits by David Ortiz and Tony Massarotti
Ortiz is a hero to many. Raised in the Dominican Republic, signed by the Seattle Mariners, and released by the Minnesota Twins, David Ortiz landed in baseball-crazy Boston. Ortiz blossomed into one of the most feared and adored sluggers in baseball while altering the course of the game's history by helping Boston win its first World Series in eighty-six years, breaking the infamous "Curse of the Bambino." --From publisher description.
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis
Recounts a turning point in the author's life, an event during which a baseball coach gave him the ball at a key point in a game and conveyed such trust that the author was inspired to perform beyond his own expectations.
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Double Play by Robert Parker
In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard. |
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For the Love of the Game by Michael Shaara
It's the last game of the season, Billy Chapel, a seventeen season legend and guaranteed Hall-of-Famer, has always played for the love of the game, never money nor fame. Now, at the end of an amazing career, he finds himself playing his most crucial game. He has one last chance to prove who he is and what really matters in life. A taut, compelling story of one man's coming of age.
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The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Malamud uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society. |
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Opening Day: the Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig
Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era.
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Pride of October: What it was to be Young and a Yankee by Bill Madden
A colunmist for the "Daily News" shares interviews with eighteen prominent Yankee players, including Yogi Berra and Paul O'Neill, to convey their experiences of playing on one of the top teams of the major leagues. |
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Red Sox rule: Terry Francona and Boston's rise to dominance by Michael Holley
An insider's portrait of Red Sox manager Terry Francona offers insight into his appointment during one of the most controversial shifts in franchise history, his contributions as a strategist, and his role in the team's 2007 World Series win.
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Screwball by David Ferrell
The Boston Red Sox's hottest, young player, Ron Kane alters the team's fortune when his ability as a "killer" pitcher extends off the field, as General Manager Neville Wulfmeyer suddenly realizes, when the FBI, media, and mobsters all become involved.
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Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
Chronicles the 1949 pennant race between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, profiling the players, owners, and fans as baseball was poised on the brink of major changes. |
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
An eccentric cast of characters populates the autobiography of a young girl who roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers with her father, while her mother suffers from a debilitating illness.
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