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  • Intentional Balk

    Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating

    by Daniel Levitt, Mark Armour ...
    From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unforgivable trespass. But what exactly is the difference? Why is skipping bases less egregious than signing underage players? Is sign-stealing evidence of ingenuity, or does it fundamentally change the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball

    The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy

    by Daniel R. Levitt ...
    In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America’s wealthiest merchants and industrialists, the new organization posed a real challenge to baseball’s prevailing structure. For the next two years the well-established leagues fought back furiously in the press, in the courts, and ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Paths to Glory

    by Daniel R. Levitt; Mark L. Armour ...
    An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series. In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the 1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What ... Read more

    $26.04 CAD

  • In Pursuit of Pennants

    Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball

    by Mark Armour, Daniel R. Levitt ...
    The 1936 Yankees, the 1963 Dodgers, the 1975 Reds, the 2010 Giants—why do some baseball teams win while others don’t?General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. In Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • America's Fascination with Asian Martial Arts

    by John Donohue, Daniel Rosenberg, Ellen Levitt, Frederick W. Lohse, III, Geoffrey Wingard ...
    Just what attracts people to study fighting arts? What psychological needs are met when one joins an instructional class? Practitioners and scholars will find much in this anthology to broaden the perspective and understanding of why Americans are so fascinated with the Asian martial traditions. Chapters in this book present meticulous research into the adaptation and significance of Asian ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball

    by Howard Bryant ...
    In Juicing the Game, award-winning journalist Howard Bryant offers the only big-picture look at the insidious manner in which performance-enhancing drugs infested baseball as the game’s leaders stood idly by, reaping the rewards.Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism with interviews with baseball heavyweights such as Jason Giambi, Commissioner Bud Selig, union head Donald Fehr, and Hall ... Read more

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  • Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey

    Nobility

    by Fritz Knapp ...
    As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, "Branch Rickey & Jackie Robinson: Nobility" discusses the struggles and triumphs of Branch Rickey's and Jackie Robinson's lives. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.What emerges after reading ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Full Count

    Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball

    by Jeff Blair ...
    From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great read for Toronto and Canadian sports fans in general.In Full Count, Jeff Blair takes us back to the days ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition

    Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

    by Daniele Bolelli ...
    An entertaining and insightful history of martial arts and the role of the warrior, drawing on pop culture, philosophy, mythology, religion, and spiritualityThe urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Solid Fool's Gold

    by Bill James ...
    Since he first began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in the 1980s, Bill James has constantly challenged conventional wisdom by asking simple questions like, "Is that really true?" or "What if we looked at the question this way?" He has sparked a virtual revolution in the way the game of baseball is understood and played, from how players are evaluated or positioned to whether or not they should ... Read more

    $15.43 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Four-Fold Way

    Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary

    by Angeles Arrien ...
    A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how they can lead us to a higher spirituality and a better world. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bat Flip

    The Greatest Toronto Blue Jays Stories Ever Told

    by Keith McArthur, R.A. Dickey, Stacey May Fowles, Alison Gordon, Buck Martinez, Stephen Brunt, John Lott, Steve Clarke, Ian Hunter, Drew Fairservice, Gideon Turk, Shi Davidi ...
    When Jose Bautista homered and flipped his bat in the 2015 playoffs, Blue Jays frenzy reached a fever pitch not seen since Joe Carter’s 1993 World Series home run.Those two home runs still bring tears and chills to Jays fans. And each season, each game, each at bat holds triumphs, heartbreaks and surprises of its own.In Bat Flip, editor Keith McArthur curates the very best writing about the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD