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NONFICTION
Released: April 12, 2011
Kirkus Star BOTTOM OF THE 33RD: HOPE, REDEMPTION, AND BASEBALL'S LONGEST GAME
by Dan Barry
"Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature."
New York Times columnist Barry (City Lights: Stories About New York, 2007, etc.) delivers an all-angle take on the longest, and surely the strangest, game in baseball history. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
BASEBALL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE EARLY GAME
by John Thorn
"A singular treat for baseball fans."
A prominent baseball historian's delightfully literate take on the mythmakers who shaped the story of the game's creation. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
JOE DIMAGGIO: THE LONG VIGIL
by Jerome Charyn
"Though sometimes over the top as he reimagines DiMaggio--"[Yankee] Stadium's suffering Christ"--Charyn supplies an intriguing, plausible take on this notoriously opaque hero."
A novelist's sympathetic meditation on the life of the legendary New York Yankee. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
THE BASEBALL: STUNTS, SCANDALS, AND SECRETS BENEATH THE STITCHES
by Zack Hample
"Not the type of book to read in one setting, but its information could fill many seasons of baseball broadcasts."
A baseball book by an obsessive for other obsessives. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 8, 2011
56: JOE DIMAGGIO AND THE LAST MAGIC NUMBER IN SPORTS
by Kostya Kennedy
"A fine baseball book and an expert social history."
Sports Illustrated senior editor Kennedy follows the days of Joe DiMaggio's immortal hitting streak, evoking the mood of a long-gone America to which DiMaggio was a central figure. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
Kirkus Star THE LAST BOY: MICKEY MANTLE AND THE END OF AMERICA'S CHILDHOOD
by Jane Leavy
"The best of the Mantle biographies."
Another biography of the late Yankee slugger--but this candid, compassionate portrait is worth a dugout full of the others. Read full book review >