Baseball Books to Consider

The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Baseball Cards, by Mark Stewart. This edition arms readers, whether beginning collectors or advanced buyers, with the information they need in order to understand the complex marketing of baseball cards.
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Baseball, by Tom Owens. The author writes about strategies, techniques, and technologies used to prepare for an upcoming season and how they are carried out during the games.
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Baseball Days: Recollections of America's Favorite Pastime, by Garret Mathews. Dozens of celebrities offer a nostalgic look at growing up with baseball.
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The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball, by Kevin Nelson. This book presents 150 years of California baseball history in words and pictures. It travels from sandlot baseball in the 1850s through the arrival of the professional Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres teams.
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Screwball, by David Ferrell. The Boston Red Sox's luck may be about to change, thanks to Ron Kane. This pitcher has an unhittable 110-mile-per-hour fastball, but is he also "deadly" off the field?
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Wild Pitch, by Mike Lupica. Lupica, a nationally syndicated sports columnist, writes this fictional account of "Showtime" Charlie Stoddard. Charlie is a pitching phenomenon for the New York Mets who was forced into early retirement by a ruined arm.
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The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. In Malamud's first novel, he weaves the story of a superbly gifted "natural" who is a player in the old daytime decades of baseball.
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The Words of the Pitcher, by Kei Swanson. Kentaro Ikuta, unable to speak English, becomes the star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. An English teacher named Claire is asked to act as his interpretor. They fall in love, but find out that an arranged marriage waits for him.
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