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BOTTOM OF THE 33RD
Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Pub Date: Apr 12, 2011
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.
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JOE DIMAGGIO
The Long Vigil
Pub Date: Mar 15, 2011
A novelist's sympathetic meditation on the life of the legendary New York Yankee.
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BASEBALL IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
The Secret History of the Early Game
Pub Date: Mar 15, 2011
A prominent baseball historian's delightfully literate take on the mythmakers who shaped the story of the game's creation.
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Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Pub Date: Mar 8, 2011
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.
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THE BASEBALL
Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches
Pub Date: Mar 8, 2011
A baseball book by an obsessive for other obsessives.
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THE LAST BOY
Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
Another biography of the late Yankee slugger--but this candid, compassionate portrait is worth a dugout full of the others.
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