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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

    $9.99 USD

  • Raritan on War

    An Anthology

    by C. Felix Amerasinghe, Andrew J. Bacevich, Victoria De Grazia, Tamas Dobozy, David Ferry, M. Fortuna, Cai Guo-Qiang, Emma Dodge Hanson, Jochen Hellbeck, Karl Kirchwey, Ray Klimek, Peter LaBier, Patrick Lawrence, d. mark levitt, Michael Miller, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Elizabeth D. Samet, Sherod Santos, Robert Westbrook ...
    Series series Raritan Skiff Books
    We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.95 USD

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  • Juicing the Game

    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

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • On Tyranny

    Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ... ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

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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

    $10.99 USD 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

    $3.49 USD

  • On Tyranny Graphic Edition

    Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Note: The ebook of this graphic edition combines a hand-lettered font with richly detailed images. Due to the nature of the design, readers will be required to zoom in on each page. For the best experience, please use a larger, full-color screen.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Fix Is In

    The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR

    by Brian Tuohy ...
    Professional sports in America: it’s all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that’s the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible?Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has infected the storied ... Read more

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