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  • The 1883 Philadelphia Athletics

    American Association Champions

    Edited by Paul Hofmann, Bill Nowlin, Bob LeMoine ...
    In 1883, the Philadelphia Athletics were champions of the American Association. Although they are largely-forgotten today, the team epitomized the Beer and Whiskey League. The summer of 1883 had one of the tightest pennant races in baseball history to that point, with the Athletics edging out Chris Von Der Ahe's St. Louis Browns by a single game. The race fueled the popularity of the game of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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  • Willie O'Ree

    The story of the first black player in the NHL

    by Nicole Mortillaro ...
    Series series Lorimer Recordbooks
    Willie O'Ree quietly made NHL history at the Montreal Forum on January 18, 1958, when he became the first black player to take to the ice. In the dressing room before the game, his Boston Bruins teammates told him not to worry. If any one of the Montreal players said anything to him, they'd have his back.There was a round of applause when O'Ree stepped onto the ice, and newspapers ran the story. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 1933

    Football at the Depth of the Great Depression

    by Mark C. Bodanza ...
    In 1933, America was in the midst of the Great Depression. The depth of despair created in the American people earned the panic a singular place in the history of the nations economic turmoil. Football, a uniquely American game, weathered these hard times, adapted, and made some of the pain a little easier to endure. In 1933, author Mark C. Bodanza examines the important role football played in ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Fire to Win

    The Life and Times of Woody Hayes

    by John Lombardo ...
    A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Woody Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.Woody Hayes is one of the greatest football coaches in history—and one of the most fascinating. More than a brilliant coach, he was a complicated, contradictory man. The former history teacher would tout the ideals of democracy yet run his football empire as an absolute monarchy. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Where They Ain't

    The Fabled Life and Ultimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team that Gave Birth to Modern Baseball

    by Burt Solomon ...
    Greedy owners, spoiled players, disillusioned fans -- all hallmarks of baseball in the 'nineties. Only in this case, it's the 1890s. We may think that business interests dominate the sport today, but baseball's early years were an even harsher and less sentimental age, when teams were wrenched from their cities, owners colluded and the ballplayers held out, and the National League nearly turned ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Game of Inches

    The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, Volume 1

    by Peter Morris ...
    As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins. Claims of being first with any element of the game are disputed with fervor and passion. When the octogenarian Fred Goldsmith died in 1939, a headline proclaimed, 'Goldsmith Dies Insisting He Invented Curve Ball'; Fred Goldsmith understood the secret of immortality. Yet ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

  • Penn State Football

    The Complete Illustrated History

    by Ken Rappoport, Barry Wilner ...
    From an AP sports writer and author, a history of Pennsylvania State University's Nittany Lions, with personal stories from coaches and players.In Tales from Penn State Football, Ken Rappoport puts you on the fifty-yard line and sometimes gets you a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room. From the first team in the 1880s to the celebrated Joe Paterno teams of the 20th century, Penn State ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball Miscellany

    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball

    by Matthew Silverman ...
    Series series Books of Miscellany
    Why does a curveball curve? What is a can of corn”? Why was Joe DiMaggio called the Yankee Clipper”? Who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame”? How many times did Ty Cobb steal home?In Baseball Miscellany, the fascinating history and lore of our national pastime is finally revealed! For example, the reason a curveball curves is that its spin drags a layer of air across one surface of the ball faster ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Turning the Black Sox White

    The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey

    by Tim Hornbaker ...
    Charles Albert The Old Roman” Comiskey was a larger-than-life figure-a man who had precision in his speech and who could work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and the driving force, albeit unknowingly, behind the actions of the 1919 White Sox, who threw the World Series (nicknamed the Black Sox” scandal), that statement is far from the ... Read more

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  • Rickwood Field

    A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark

    by Allen Barra ...
    The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field becomes the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark.While America has changed dramatically over the last hundred years, Rickwood Field, the pride of Birmingham, Alabama, has remained fixed in time. Best-selling baseball writer Allen Barra journeyed to his native Alabama to capture the glories of ... Read more

    $26.59 CAD

  • The People's Team

    An Illustrated History of the Green Bay Packers

    by Mark Beech, Peter King, Austin Murphy, Chuck Mercein, David S. Neft ...
    The definitive, lavishly illustrated history of the Green Bay Packers, commemorating the team's 100-year anniversary: "Exceptional [and] engrossing." —Jeff Pearlman, New York Times–bestselling author of GunslingerNot only are the Packers the only fan-owned team in any of North America's major pro sports leagues, but Green Bay—population 104,057—is also the smallest city with a big-time franchise. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Windy City World Series I: 1906, White Sox–Cubs

    The Year, the Season Enhanced with Period, Original Poetry

    by Richard Chabowski ...
    The year 1906 holds special significance for the city of Chicago for a number of reasons, but probably nothing generated as much excitement as the all-Chicago World Series that pitted the White Sox against the Cubs.Upton Sinclair had just written The Jungle, which revealed the inner workings of the citys slaughterhouses. There was also a new central city and county government building rising in ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD