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Released: April 1, 2013
"Baseball fans of a legal bent will find this lively study both maddening and illuminating."
Price fixing, union busting, collusion and criminality--and that's just the beginning of this inside-baseball footnote to baseball history.
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Released: March 26, 2013
"Fidrych transfixed the country, albeit too briefly. This book serves as a reminder of why."
A reminder of the time when America fell in love with a tall, lanky, curly-haired pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
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Released: March 19, 2013
"The literary equivalent of a mid-July baseball game: a few highlights but largely forgettable."
A collection of anecdotes about some of the worst players, managers and owners in baseball history.
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Released: March 19, 2013
"Less a primer than a series of postgraduate lectures."
A distinguished art critic, academic and philosopher distills his views into a compact volume that is likely to provoke more debate than it resolves.
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Released: March 19, 2013
"No matter where readers are on the political spectrum, this light biography is a tantalizing look into the life of a man who altered the TV-news landscape."
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Released: March 18, 2013
"Intelligent and entertaining--a treat for opera aficionados and newcomers alike."
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Released: March 14, 2013
"Not everyone can get to St. Andrews, but with Horovitz's memoir, they can get somewhat of an insider's view."
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Released: March 13, 2013
"John Tarrant fought against a sporting establishment that held him hostage in what could have been one of the great international ultra-distance-running careers. Jones restores his legend while revealing his very human frailties."
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Released: March 12, 2013
"Not particularly well-written or elegant, but it provides some illumination of the creative mind of a very private artist."
A slim, sketchy, not-quite memoir that defies categorization but plainly comes from a personal place within its musician author.
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Released: March 12, 2013
"A deft, lyrical chronicle by a punk with perspective."
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Released: March 11, 2013
"An elegant little meditation on life and the afterlife, well worth reading while waiting for spring."
A tour of religious thought from the vantage point of that most perfect of cathedrals, the baseball diamond.
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Released: March 7, 2013
"The main focus on baseball provides a starting point for much more."
A fun approach to developing the discipline necessary to separate reproducible skills from the disruptive effects of chance in baseball, finance and life.
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