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Baseball's Most Baffling MVP Ballots

✍ Jeremy Lehrman 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 🌐 English

From its colorful beginnings more than a century ago, baseball's annual Most Valuable Player Award has become the most prestigious (and contentious) individual honor in the sport. No accolade means more to players, fans or the media. No other award can claim a voting history so rich in alleged snubs

Jackie Robinson: Breaking Baseball's Col

📁 Jackie Robinson: Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier

✍ Budd Bailey 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Cavendish Square Publishing LLC 🌐 English

Barriers have existed to deny people the chance to compete athletically based on their race, ethnic background, or sex. Some athletes, through their courage and class, have broken down the barriers that have afflicted our society, and sometimes affected greater social change. Jackie Robinson fought

Ichiro Suzuki: Baseball's Most Valuable

📁 Ichiro Suzuki: Baseball's Most Valuable Player

✍ David Aretha 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Enslow Publishing, LLC 🌐 English

<p>Ichiro Suzuki has had a storied baseball career in Japan and the United States. Since signed to the major leagues in 2001, the right fielder has racked up batting records for the Yankees, Mariners, and Marlins. Through fascinating details about his personal and professional life, full-color photo

Color blind: the forgotten team that bro

📁 Color blind: the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line

✍ Dunkel, Tom 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Grove;Atlantic, Inc. 🌐 English

"When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere. With civic pride on the line, rivalries were fierce and teams often signed ringers to play alongside the town dentist, insurance salesman, and teen prodigy. In drought-s

📁 Color blind : the forgotten team that broke baseball's color line

✍ Dunkel, Tom, author 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 🌐 English

xiii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

Great stuff: baseball's most amazing pit

📁 Great stuff: baseball's most amazing pitching feats

✍ Westcott, Rich 📂 Library 📅 2014;2013 🏛 Sports Publishing 🌐 English

Who never heard of Johnny Vander Meers back-to-back no-hitters? Or Christy Mathewsons three shutouts in one World Series? Or Steve Carlton winning 27 games for a last-place team that won a total of only 59 games? These and a variety of other pitching feats comprise the contents of Rich Westcotts lat