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Spring 2012

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• A People's History of Baseball, by Mitchell Nathanson  
• Imperfect: An Improbable Life, by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
• Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift, by Harvey Araton
• Behind the Plate: A Catcher's View of the Braves Dynasty, by Javier Lopez with Gary Caruso
• Fenway Park: Images of America, by David Hickey, Raymond Sinibaldi and Kerry Keene
• The Baseballl Hall of Shame:The Best of Blooperstown, by Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo
• Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball, by Molly Lawless  
• Life Behind the Mask: Memoir of a Youth Baseball Umpire, by Michael Schafer  
• Hardball Legends and Journeymen and Short-Timers: 333 Illustrated Baseball Biographies, by Ronnie Joyner
• The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires, by David Nemec
• Drawing Card: A Baseball Novel, by Dorothy Seymour Mills
• Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, by Paul Dickson
• Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball, by Christopher J. Lamb
• Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931, by Norman L. Macht
• Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan, by Robert K. Fitts
• Major League Baseball Profiles 1870-1900 Vol. 1: The Ballplayers who Built the Game, by David Nemec
• Major League Baseball Profiles 1870-1900 Vol. 2: The Hall of Famers and Memorable Personalities Who Shaped the Game, by David Nemec
• Sometimes They Even Shook Your Hand: Portraits of Champions Who Walked Among Us, by John Schulian
• The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, edited by Lyle Spatz
• Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers: The 1970 Baltimore Orioles, edited by Mark Armour and Malcolm Allen
• Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer's Historic Night Under the Lights, by James W. Johnson
• Strikeout: Baseball, Broadway and the Brotherhood in the 19th Century, by James Hawking
• Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero, by Bob Kann
• The Last Rebel Yell: True tales from baseball's last bastion of racial segregation: the Alabama-Florida League, by Ken Brooks
• Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel, by David B. Stinson
• Baseball Fantography: A Celebration in Snapshots and Stories from the Fans, by Andy Strasberg
• The Greatest Show on Dirt: A Novel, by James Bailey
• Baseball's Lost Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues, by Eric Thompson
• The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy, by Daniel R. Levitt
• 100 Things Rangers fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, by Rusty Burson  
• 100 Things Yankees Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, by David Fischer  
• Safe At Home: Willie Mays Aikens, by Gregory Jordan
• Marietta College Baseball: The Story of the 'Etta Express, by Gary Caruso
• Tales from the Philadelphia Phillies Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Phillies Stories Ever Told, by Rich Westcott
• Red Sox Review: 110 Years of Boston Red Sox Photos, by Mark Stang
• Basic Ball: New Approaches for Determining the Greatest Baseball, Football and Basketball Players of All-Time, by Dave Heeren and Pete Palmer
• Painting the Corners: A Collection of Off-Center Baseball Stories, by Bob Weintraub
• Shipwrecked: A People's History of the Seattle Mariners, by Jon Wells
• Third Base For Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball, by Joshua L. Berkowitz

 

Winter 2012

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• Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, by Randy Roberts & Carson Cunningham 
• Trading Manny: How A Father & Son Learned To Love Baseball Again, by Jim Gullo
• Summer of '68: The Season that Changed Baseball — and America — Forever, by Tim Wendel
• 1924 and You Are There!, by Jeff Polman
• The School With All The Catchers: A History of the Crawford High School Baseball Program, by Joe Naiman  
• The South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954, by Jim Sargent and Robert M. Gorman
• Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George "Boomer" Scott, by Ron Anderson
• Eliot Asinof and the Truth of the Game: A Critical Study of the Baseball Writings, by William Farina
• A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W.P. Kinsella, by William Steele
• The Battling Bucs of 1925: How the Pittsburgh Pirates Pulled Off the Greatest Comeback in World Series History, by Ronald T. Waldo
• Red Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011, by William F. McNeil
• The Mental Road to the Major Leagues: A Guide for Rising Ballplayers, by Kelly J. Pfaff and Peder N. Piering
• The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916, by Joel S. Franks
• Baseball's War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to the Present, by Brett Kiser
• Center Field Grasses: Poems from Baseball, by Gene Fehler
• Tiger Stadium, Comerica Park: History & Memories, by Irwin J. Cohen
• Baseball Between Us: A Road Map to a Winning Father/Son Relationship, by Mike Luery
• Travels with Ghosts and Other Tales, by Joe Scherrman and Suzanne Wright, eds.
• The Wonder Team in the White City: U.V.M. At the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament of 1893, by Tom Simon
• Jack and Larry, the Cleveland Baseball Dog, by Barbara Gregorich
• Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography, by Stuart Shea
• The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers
• Best Mets: Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York's Most Agonizingly Amazin' Team, by Matthew Silverman
• Willy's Ballgame, by Dennis N. Ricci
• Hot Hand: The Statistics Behind Sports' Greatest Streaks, by Alan Reifman
• Celebrating Ourselves: African-Americans and the Promise of Baseball, by Daryl Russell Grigsby
• 3 Tales From the Grand Old Game, by Austin Gisriel

Fall 2011

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• Wizardry: Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed, by Michael Humphreys
• Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (republished)
• Baseball Is …: Defining the National Pastime, edited by Paul Dickson
• Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout
• The Deacon and the Schoolmaster: Phillippe and Leever, Pittsburgh's Great Turn-of-the-Century Pitchers, by Robert Peyton Wiggins
• DiMaggio's Yankees: A History of the 1936-1944 Dynasty, by Lew Freedman
• Roger Connor: Home Run King of 19th Century Baseball, by Roy Kerr
• The Baseball Film in Postwar America: A Critical Study, 1948-1962, by Ron Briley
• Baseball's Heartland War, 1902-1903: The Western League and American Association vie for Turf, Players and Profits, by Dennis Pajot
• The Rise of Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961: Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, by Lou Hernandez
• The Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League: A History, 1903-1957, by Richard Beverage
• The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957, by Dennis Snelling
• Peanuts and Crackerjacks: A Baseball Novel, by M.Z. Ribalow
• Baseball in Petersburg: The Virginia League and Beyond, by Larry C. Toombs
• The Bill James Handbook 2012, by Baseball Info Solutions
• A Unique Look at Big League Baseball, by Joe Taxiera
• The Giants Win The Series! Headlines and Highlights of 1954, by Mike Getz
• Garlic Fries and Baseball: The Book, by Ronni Redmond
• One Home Run, by Art Voellinger
• Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run King, by Richard Michelson (illustrations by Zachary Pullen)
• Amazing Baseball Heroes: Inspirational Negro League Stories, by Bryan Steverson

 

Spring/Summer 2011 additions

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• Vintage Base Ball: Recapturing the National Pastime, by James R. Tootle
• Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball’s Boy Wonder, by Jack Smiles
• Hutch: Baseball's Fred Hutchinson and a Legacy of Courage, by Mike Shannon (author) and Scott Hannig (illustrator)
• Dixie Walker: A Life in Baseball, by Lyle Spatz
• Broadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television, by Eldon L. Ham
• Silver Bats and Automobiles: The Hotly Competitive, Sometimes Ignoble Pursuit of the Major League Batting Championship, by David L. Fleitz
• Life Behind the Mask: Memoir of a Youth Baseball Umpire, by Michael Schafer
• Bucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons, by Clifton Blue Parker
• Farewell to the Last Golden Era: The Yankees, the Pirates and the 1960 Baseball Season, by Bill Morales
• Jim Thorpe: A Biography, by William A. Cook
• Clark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball, by Ted Leavengood
• Brit at the Ballpark: An Englishman's Baseball Tour of All 50 States, by Peter Taylor
• Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil, by William B. Gould IV
• The Right Time: John Henry “Pop" Lloyd and Black Baseball, by Wes Singletary
• When the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms: Gunner McGunnigle and Brooklyn’s Back-to-Back Pennants of 1889 and 1890, by Ronald G. Shafer
• Major League Umpires’ Performance, 2007-2010: A Comprehensive Statistical Review, by Andrew Goldblatt
• The Runmakers: A New Way to Rate Baseball Players, by Frederick E. Taylor
• The Pitch, by Hank Owens

 

Spring/Summer 2011

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• Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, by Rebecca T. Alpert
• Images of America: Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles, by Francisco E. Balderrama and Richard A. Santillan
• Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn
• Catching Heat: The Jim Leyritz Story, by Jim Leyritz, Douglas B. Lyons and Jeffrey Lyons
• Major League Baseball Scouts: A Biographical Dictionary, by P.J. Dragseth
• Kenichi Zenimura: Japanese American Baseball Pioneer, by Bill Staples Jr.
• Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball, by Lawrence Baldassaro
• Wins, Losses & Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression, by David George Surdam
• The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932, by Thomas Aiello
• Turbulent Seasons: Baseball in 1890-1891, by Charles C. Alexander
• Solid Fool's Gold: Detours on the Way to Conventional Wisdom, by Bill James
• The Off Season: National League 1953/54, by John Oelerich
• Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox, by Harvey Frommer
• A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of Baseball Tales From the Broadcast Booth, by Curt Smith
• Territories to Boomers: Professional Baseball in Ardmore 1904-1926, by Peter G. Pierce
• Indians, Cardinals and Rosebuds: Professional Baseball in Ardmore 1947-1961, by Peter G. Pierce
• Jewel of the Sports World: The Story of the Hickok Belt Award, by Scott Pitoniak
• 10 Rings: Stories of the St. Louis Cardinals World Championships, by James Rygelski and Robert L. Tiemann
• This Is Our Time! The 2010 San Francisco Giants, by Chris Haft and Eric Alan