The New York Mets
Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
Written by Richard Grossinger, Foreword by Mike Vacarro
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
No baseball team has captured America’s imagination like the Mets. Alternately the “Lovable Losers” and the “Miracle Mets,” New York’s other team offers fascinating fodder for writer Richard Grossinger in this thoughtful collection. The New York Mets is a series of probing essays on the best and most interesting years of...
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If I Never Get Back
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...
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Two in the Field
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of...
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When the Game Stands Tall
The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Written by Neil Hayes, Photographed by Bob Larson, Foreword by Tony La Russa
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
The book that inspired the ESPN documentary 151: The Greatest Streak is now Revised and Updated!
By 2002, The Streak—a historic 13-year run of consecutive wins by the Spartans, a high-school football team from Concord, California, that couldn't be beat—was still going strong. In this revised edition of When the Game Stands...
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North Shore Chronicles
Big-Wave Surfing in Hawaii
Written by Bruce Jenkins
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
In this memorable account of 17 trips he made to Hawaii's North Shore starting in 1974, Bruce Jenkins, considered the Kerouac of surf writers, profiles the area's elite, the superstars who live to conquer Hawaii's deadliest waves. Here are the egoists, stylists, gladiators, and purists of the sport, from big-wave greats...
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When the Game Stands Tall
The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Written by Neil Hayes, Photographed by Bob Larson, Foreword by Tony La Russa
Price: $25.00
Frog Books
De La Salle High School in Concord, California, is home to perhaps the greatest dynasty in sports history. At age 23, Coach Bob Ladouceur launched a legend, "The Streak," with no teaching or head-coaching experience, and with his teams amassed the highest winning percentage in all of football history with 138...
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Football's Blackest Hole
A Fan's Perspective
Written by Craig Parker, Foreword by George Kimball
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
TAKE THIS SUPER BOWL AND SHOVE IT. At least that's what Oakland Raiders' fan Craig Parker thinks. A card-carrying member of Raider Nation, Parker adds a new chapter to the written history of the Silver and Black. Writing from the too often dismissed perspective of the dedicated fan, Parker gives voice...
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Zina
My Life in Women's Tennis
Written by Zina Garrison, Contribution by Doug Smith, Foreword by Billie King
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Zina Garrison took the mostly white tennis world by storm, climbing to number four in singles rankings and earning millions in prize money. In this intimate account of her life, she shares the ups and downs of her experiences as a professional athlete, including the glory of Wimbledon, the trials of...
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The Ultimate Athlete
Written by George Leonard
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
We are born with the God-given right to move efficiently, gracefully, and joyfully. We lose this right only through society's mind-body split, faulty modes of physical education, and overemphasis on "winning." George Leonard's simple and radical notion is that within each of us, regardless of age, sex, or physical condition, there...
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The Million Dollar Backfield
Written by Dave Newhouse, Foreword by Bill Walsh
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
This is the story of four San Francisco 49ers: Joe Perry, Hugh McElhenny, John Henry Johnson, and Y. A. Tittle. Though together for only three years—1954 through 1956—their stories made history, and each player went on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Tracing their on the field...
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Things Happen for a Reason
The True Story of an Itinerant Life in Baseball
Written by Terry Leach and Tom Clark, Preface by Paul Auster and David Cone
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
Born in 1953 in Selma, Alabama, Terry Leach first plays baseball as a Little Leaguer. In college, he stars at Auburn until an arm injury threatens his future. He recovers sufficiently to pitch sidearm and enter the independent leagues in Louisiana, which led to his major league career. For every Sosa...
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A Good Man
The Pete Newell Story
Written by Bruce Jenkins, Foreword by Ron Fimrite
Price: $27.50
Frog Books
A Good Man takes you back to the smoky haze of Madison Square Garden in the 1950s, when college basketball was king. It transports you to a dead-quiet high school gym in Hawaii, where Shaquille O'Neal is quietly listening to a legend. The Pete Newell story, told with great detail and...
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How My Mother Accidentally Tossed Out My Entire Baseball-Card Collection
and Other Sports Stories
Written by Bob Mitchell
Price: $12.95
Frog Books
"Sports inspires fascination, and so I've written about sports of all shapes and colors...Taking place in locales as varied as Boro Park and Williamstown, Columbus and West Lafayette, Maine and Texas, Maui and Tel Aviv. And with story-lines that I've found to be ceaselessly thought-provoking. The cosmic significance of baseball cards...
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The Tao of Sports
Written by Bob Mitchell
Price: $11.95
Frog Books
Sports today seems all to often to be poisoned by greed, incivility, and violence. Part philosophy, part poetry, part common sense, The Tao Of Sports is a spiritual roadmap to self-discovery and to understanding the great paradoxes of sports, athletics, and the Game: defeat and joy, struggle and serenity, anarchy and...
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We Came to Play
Writings on Basketball
Edited by Q.R. Hand and John Ross
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Setting their literary picks with the elegance of the Pearl, point guard Ross and off guard Hand have spun a masterpiece. Their roster includes some bona-fide all-stars, more than a few hall-of-famers (plus a certain ringer of two): Bill Cosby, John Updike, Jim Carroll, John R. Tunis, Tom Meschery, Roy Blount...
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Rowdy Richard
The Story of Dick Bartell
Written by Dick Bartell and Norman Macht
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
This is a definitive, analytical look at the style of the game, the characters of the ear, the managers, the owners, told by "the most exuberant rowdy of them all." Bartell covers the period from 1927 to 1954, baseball’s golden age: the Gashouse Gang; McGraw; the 1927 Yankees; the Giants-Dodgers feud...
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Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
Fifth Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lisa Conrad
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
This book includes Donald Hall, Jack Kerouac, Robert Kelly, Bill Lee, Paul Metcalf, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, and Bernadette Mayer. The quality of the work in this anthology varies widely, but the sheer unlikeliness of a volume of neo-beat baseball poetry and new-age-inflected essays cannot help but inspire generosity. The photography...
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Sports and Exercise Injuries
Conventional, Homeopathic and Alternative Treatments
Written by Steven Subotnick
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Dr. Subotnick has developed an integrative approach to foot health and to sports medicine that is truly a model for the modern physician. The comprehensive nature of the book and the practical information that it provides makes it accessible to all health professionals as well as for the general public.
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The DreamLife of Johnny Baseball
Edited by Richard Grossinger
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
This book, along with the Temple of Baseball and Baseball, I Gave You the Best Years of My Life, makes a fantastic trilogy of personal baseball. The viewing experience is melded with playing, art, and life (before it was fashionable) into something great.
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