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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers

✍ Scribed by Pessah, Jon

Book ID
108595074
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780316242219

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✦ Synopsis

The incredible inside story of baseball's last twenty years--and how they completely changed the game.

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