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Baseball Prospectus 2012Baseball Prospectus
Average wait: 102d, 21hThe bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the businessThe essential guide to the 2012 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you’re a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won’t be properly informed without it. … more
steve3 thanked jonnyb2117 for lending Baseball Prospectus 2012 24 weeks ago
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The Book of Basketball: The ...Bill Simmons
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more Including even more footnotes! Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com… more
jonnyb2117 owns The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy 42 weeks ago
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Shoeless Joe (RosettaBooks S...W. P. Kinsella
Average wait: 4hRay Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly voice of a baseball announcer who says to him, “If you build it, he will come.” Needing no further explanation, Kinsella immediately se… more
Karsten Piper thanked jonnyb2117 for lending Shoeless Joe (RosettaBooks Sports Classics) 45 weeks ago
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Munson: The Life and Death o...Marty Appel
Our captain and leader has not left us, today, tomorrow, this year, next … Our endeavors will reflect our love and admiration for him.”—Honorary plaque to Munson in Yankee StadiumThurman Munson is remembered by fans as the fiercely competit… more
jonnyb2117 owns Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain 45 weeks ago
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Extra Innings: More Baseball...The Baseball Prospectus
In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard stat heads. Sixteen years later, the Ba… more
jonnyb2117 owns Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus 45 weeks ago
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Shoeless Joe (RosettaBooks S...W. P. Kinsella
Average wait: 4hRay Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly voice of a baseball announcer who says to him, “If you build it, he will come.” Needing no further explanation, Kinsella immediately se… more
jonnyb2117 loaned Shoeless Joe (RosettaBooks Sports Classics) to Karsten Piper 45 weeks ago
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jonnyb2117 earned the Horseshoes and Hand Grenades achievement! So close! 47 weeks ago
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jonnyb2117 earned the Good Samaritan (Level 1) achievement! 51 weeks ago
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My Horizontal LifeChelsea Handler
You’ve either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend’s irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarra… more
jonnyb2117 owns My Horizontal Life 51 weeks ago
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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston...Mark Frost
Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three games to two, Cincinnati hopes to win it … more
jonnyb2117 owns Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America 51 weeks ago
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The MachineJoe Posnanski
Award-winning sports columnist Joe Posnanski hits a grand slam with The Machine—a thrilling account of the magical 1975 season of the Cincinnati Reds, baseball’s legendary “Big Red Machine,” from spring training through the final game of th… more
jonnyb2117 owns The Machine 51 weeks ago
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The Yankee YearsTom Verducci, Joe Torre
The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre’s New York Yankees. When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seven… more
jonnyb2117 owns The Yankee Years 51 weeks ago
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The Extra 2%: How Wall Stree...Jonah Keri
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, … more
jonnyb2117 owns The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First First 51 weeks ago
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Pandora's Star (The Commonwe...Peter F. Hamilton
Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton’s bestselling fiction—powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelli… more
jonnyb2117 owns Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga) 51 weeks ago
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56: Joe DiMaggio and the Las...Kostya Kennedy
Seventy baseball seasons ago, on a May afternoon at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio lined a hard single to left field. It was the quiet beginning to the most resonant baseball achievement of all time. Starting that day, the vaunted Yankee cent… more
jonnyb2117 owns 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports 51 weeks ago
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El Birdos: The 1967 and 1968...Doug Feldmann
In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream included not only the best players money could buy but a brand new Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. The early sixties found Busch work… more
jonnyb2117 owns El Birdos: The 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals 51 weeks ago
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The Greatest Game Ever PitchedJim Kaplan
Even before their epic pitching duel, Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn already had a lot in common. Future Hall of Famers with high-kicking deliveries, they were shaped into winners by character-building experiences in the military. Spahn had… more
jonnyb2117 owns The Greatest Game Ever Pitched 51 weeks ago
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Perfect: Don Larsen's Miracu...Lew Paper
“If you want to live inside the most famous statistical afternoon in baseball history, Perfect is…well, let’s just say ‘ideal’.” -Chuck Closterman, Esquire On October 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen took the mound for game… more
jonnyb2117 owns Perfect: Don Larsen's Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made it Happen 51 weeks ago
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Ghost Story: A Novel of the ...Jim Butcher
When an unknown someone shoots him and leaves him to die, Harry Dresden hopes he might be heading to a better place. Unfortunately, being dead doesn’t make Harry’s life any easier. Trapped between life and death, he learns that his friends … more
jonnyb2117 owns Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files 51 weeks ago
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Wrigleyville: A Magical Hist...Peter Golenbock
For celebrated sportwriter Peter Golenbock, Wrigleyville is a symbol of America’s fidelity to its greatest sport. As he did with classics of sports literature, Bums (a history of the Brooklyn Dodgers) and Dynasty (a history of the New York… more
jonnyb2117 owns Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs 51 weeks ago
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