Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball - And America - Forever, Paperback - Tim Wendel

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Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with ...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

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Reducere. Nearly a century after his final major league appearance, Christy Mathewson is still considered one of the greatest right-handed pitchers in the hi...

DescriptionDerek Jeter, Pedro Martinez, Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Bryce Harper. Before those Future Hall of Famers vaulted into Major Leagu...

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Reducere. Ama, desperate to live up to her family's expectations, finds herself on an outdoor adventure summer camp. Tomboy, loner Polly discovers that her g...

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A stunning new paperback edition of the classic first Tom Thorne novel by number one Sunday Times bestseller Mark Billingham, containing a foreword...

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The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winnin...

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Reducere. On April 14, 1865, only days after the Civil War had come to a close, a gunshot rang out in Ford's Theatre and President Abraham Lincoln slumped fo...

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She's got her own problems this summer too - has she made a mistake by turning her back on her old friends?Having let their friendship fade, can th...

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Reducere. With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December...

Reducere. Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant pa...

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Reducere. During his whirlwind 1903 tour of the western states, President Theodore Roosevelt paid his first visit to California. In between the appearances a...

A "gripping, " (Booklist) "clear-eyed, and honest" (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt--the inventor of the legendary Colt re...

Reducere. MY BASEBALL SEASON is a full-sized 8 1/2 x 11" sports journal that will help players record all the excitement of the months ahead.Each page has wr...

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