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Between the Lines: Nine Things Baseball Taught Me About Life
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Orel Hershiser has much to say about how to succeed against the odds. Cut from his high school and college teams, he managed to climb to the top of his profession through minor league stints in Iowa, Texas, and New Mexico. He diligently paid his dues day after day until he accomplished his dream and became the highest-paid pitcher of his time. Along the way he was guided by principles and values that he now shares in the pages of this inspiring book.
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Field of Hope: An Inspiring Autobiography of a Lifetime of Overcoming Odds
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Brett Butler, the Los Angeles Dodger who defied all odds to become a big leaguer, has had his share of battles. All his life he's battled the "bigger guys" to play. He battled the "big guys" during the baseball strike and the "other guys" for his outspoken faith. He's also battled a serious eye injury, life-threatening throat cancer, and more recently a broken hand. Yet Butler has a lot going for him, too. In this straightforward and candid autobiography, he credits his wife, family, friends, and more importantly, God, with the success he has experienced and the amazing comebacks he has ...
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
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The blockbuster New York Times bestseller that caused a media firestorm and stayed in the headlines for weeks at last arrives in paperback—with a new afterword about the Barry Bonds perjury investigation.
This is the complete inside story of the BALCO steroids scandal from the award-winning reporters who broke the news nationally. In the summer of 1998, as baseball was still struggling to regain popularity lost during the contentious 1994 players’ strike that caused the World Series to be canceled, a race to break the home-run record transfixed the nation. Over ...
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Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
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When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport -- in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring. Canseco shattered the mold of the out-of-shape baseball player and ushered in a new era of superathletes who looked like bodybuilders, made outrageous salaries, and enjoyed rock-star lifestyles. And the ticket for ...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a ...
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My Favorite Summer 1956
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Mickey Mantle, the hayseed kid from Spavinaw, Oklahoma, was in his sixth year with the Yankees. He was already America's homerun king. He was about to become a national hero. 1956 would be a record-breaking season: the golden summer fans would remember forever. Now Mickey Mantle brings it all back just the way it happened--spectacular playing on field, crazy hijinks with Whitey Ford and Billy Martin off. There never was a time like it before in baseball. There never will be again. It was magic.
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Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles
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When I was growing up, the pitcher that we all idolized was Sandy Koufax, which often relegated Don Drysdale to the role of a sidekick. Yet, he was a great pitcher in his own right and when he retired in 1969, he was the last Dodger player that had played in Ebbets field in Brooklyn. The list of his teammates is a significant segment of the all-time greats. Players such as Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax, John Roseboro, Pee Wee Reese, Don Newcombe and Gil Hodges all took the field beside him.
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