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Joe DiMaggio: The Yankee Clipper
by Geoffrey Giuliano
Price: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD
For decades baseball great Joe DiMaggio was the very definition of cool and class in the midst of the unparalleled fury of his stellar career.
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
Price: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($49.50) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($26.96)
In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.
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The Glory of Their Times
by Lawrence Ritter
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette
This new audio compilation of the original interviews is great news for baseball fans and anyone who loves oldtime tales of America's national pastime.
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Playing With the Enemy
by Gary Moore
Price: Audio Download ($18.19) | Audio CD ($20.79)
In 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time.
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Heads-Up Baseball
by Tom Hanson
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.40)
What does it mean to play heads-up baseball? A heads-up player has confidence in his ability, keeps control in pressure situations, and focuses on one pitch at a time.
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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!
by Yogi Berra
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.95) | Audio Cassette
Yogi Berra is one of America's most beloved baseball players of all time, known as much for his wit and humor as he is for his exploits with the New York Yankees...
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Ted Williams
by Leigh Montville
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($19.99) | Audio Cassette
He was one of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time....
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Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Shoeless Joe is the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, though like most such relationships, the book is far better than the screen adaptation.
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The Big Bam
by Leigh Montville
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($29.95)
Babe Ruth's larger-than-life personality defines the legendary hero in this entertaining biography by the bestselling author of "Ted Williams."
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America
by Timothy B. Shutt
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
Baseball has been celebrated as "America's National Pastime" for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age- long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or brownstone stoops.
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Babe Ruth: An American Legend
by Babe Ruth
Price: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD
A lovable big bear of a man, Babe Ruth personified the unbounded ambition and playful enthusiasm of the young, eternally hopeful nation from which he sprang.
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Why I Love Baseball
by Larry King
Price: Audio Download ($12.60) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Larry King is a true-blue baseball fanatic....
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
by Jonathan Eig
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century.
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Tales from the Dugout
by Mike Shannon
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($29.95)
This memorable collection of anecdotes about America’s national pastime will take you into the dugout, clubhouse, and press box with some of the game’s greatest players and storytellers.
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A Woman's Guide to Baseball
by Paula Duffy
Price: Audio Download ($9.98)
Is your favorite guy spending more time talking to the 'tube' than to you? Would you like to score with that nice looking single at the sports bar?
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7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
by Peter Golenbock
Price: Audio Download ($27.97) | Audio CD ($35.96)
In Peter Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero, and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family.
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Clemente
by David Maraniss
Price: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Maraniss comes a full-scale biography of the great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, the first Latin player to reach the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Luckiest Man
by Jonathan Eig
Price: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's strongest and most determined superstar, struck down in his prime by a disease that now bears his name. But who was Lou Gehrig, really?
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
by Allen Barra
Price: Audio Download ($20.00) | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with 14 pennants, 10 World Series, and three MVPs.
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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game
by George Vecsey
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America’s national pastime.
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The Echoing Green
by Joshua Prager
Price: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD
Prager presents the full, fascinating story of one of the most famous moments in baseball history: Bobby Thomson's home run which won the pennant for the New York Giants against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Edward's Eyes
by Patricia MacLachlan
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($14.39)
He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake knows he has Edward.
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As They See 'em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires
by Bruce Weber
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($33.26)
Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong.
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
by John Feinstein
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
Seasoned pitchers Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all in the Major Leagues, and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at the World Series - Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees.
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Joe DiMaggio
by Richard Ben Cramer
Price: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In the hard-knuckled '30s, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty...
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