Assorted Baseball and Collecting Books For Sale
 

All prices DO NOT included Media Mail shipping, which runs about $3.00 for a normal size book. I will invoice you for the actual shipping cost. Buy more than one and will discount to account for the lower shipping cost. Offers welcome.

KIDS BOOKS

ONE O'CLOCK HITTER by Wilfred McCormick (A Bronc Burnett Story) (1960 Grosset & Dunlap) Near Fine with some shelf wear to cover but bright colors and fine/near fine pages. Binding tight as new...$10.00

TEAMMATES by Peter Golenbock Illustrated by Paul Bacon nice little kids book about the friendship between Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. Poor condition with packing tape holding the binding together but worth passing on to the younger generation, especially with the JR movie coming out...ISBN 0590366696...$1.00

BASEBALL

BASEBALL: First 100 Years. Nice little book put out by MLB Promotions. All 1969 MLB teams profiled with individual player pictures (1st year of expansion). Nice articles on the greats of the game and loaded with pictures. "Fair to poor" condition. Rare circa 1970 Oakland A's round vinyl sticker on the cover and signed by Ernie Broglio on the cover, famous for being traded for Ernie Banks....$3.00

Alston and the Dodgers by Alston and Burick (1966 - first edition) no DJ $4.00 good

Baseball Complete by Russ Hodges (1952) no DJ $4.00 good

Baseball is a Very Funny Game by Joe Garagiola (1960) $4.00 good

Baseball Letters: A Fan's Correspondence with His Heroes by Seth Swirsky $4.00 very good

Baseball's Last Golden Age, 1946-1960: The National Pastime in a Time of
Glory and Change by J. Ronald Oakley $15.00 very good

Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays $5.00 very good

Catfish Hunter by Stambler $15.00 like new

Catfish by Bill Libby$4.00 good

Covering the Bases: The Most Unforgettable Moments in Baseball in the Words of the Writers and Broadcasters Who Were There $4.00 very good

Dead Ball: Major League Baseball Before Babe Ruth $4.00 (ex library)

Dimaggio: Setting the Record Straight $4.00 very good

Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams $6.00 very good

Sports Illustrated: Great Baseball Writing $4.00 very good

Tales Of The Diamond: Select Gems Of Baseball $5.00 very good

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth by Leigh Montville $4.00 very good

The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance $4.00 very good

The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of
Latinos in America's Favorite Sport $6.00 very good

The Story of Negro League Baseball $4.00 very good

Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan $4.00 very good

COLLECTING
Topps Baseball Cards: Complete Picture Collection, 40-Year History, 1951-1990 $35.00 very good. DJ has wear to top edge and some tearing on the back but is complete. The text is not affected. This is the big book with pictures of all the Topps Cards pictured.

Sports Americana Baseball Card Price Guide #1 (1979) First attempt at a standard price guide by Beckett & Eckes. Good condition pages a bit toned from age and cheap printing. Binding square and tight. Full page Larry Fritsch ad offering T-206's in "excellent or better" for $3.00 down to "Poor" for $1.00. If we only had a time machine...$7.00

Most Valuable Baseball Cards by Christopher Benjamin 64 pages with lots of pictures of pre-WWII issues. ISBN 0399515925... $5.00 VG+

Sports Collectors Bible by Bert Randolph Sugar (1975). A pre-Beckett attempt at getting some organization to the collecting hobby. Really a monumental effort for the time. Mostly cards with lots of checklists. Sugar also got other "expert" collectors to contribute sections on memorabilia, including an autograph section by Bill Zekus. Unique to this was a collector's registry which includes quite a few collecting legends like Buck Barker and Frank Nagy to some younger guys who went on to bigger and (sometimes) better things - namely Keith Olbermann and "Jim" Beckett. $10.00

GENERAL SPORTS
ESPN 25: 25 Mind-Bending, Eye-Popping, Culture Morphing Years of Highlights $4.00 like new includes CD

Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing: 50th Anniversary 1954-2004 $4.00 very good

SPORTS ILLUSION REALITY by Leonard Koppet SIGNED $10.00 very good no DJ