Gilles Renaud

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Facing Ted Williams: Players from the Golden Age of Baseball Recall the Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived

Essential for baseball fanatics, this should also be perused by fans of all ages.
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The First Jews in North America: The Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family, 1760–1860

A significant contribution to our understanding of this period from the perspective of a family espousing a minority faith. Non-French-reading students of Canadian, Jewish, and North American social history will be rewarded in choosing this book.
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The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych

Highly recommended for all libraries wishing to offer readers a few hours of fun and frivolity and to serious fans an explanation of the mania that last engulfed the National Pastime in a worthwhile way.
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The Ringer

Every first novel has the potential to seize the interest of a wide readership when it combines these elements: a young baseball player seeking solace on the field for the loss of a father killed by police in a botched drug raid; a veteran Denver police officer (and baseball coach) scarred by a life-ending and life-changing split-second decision; and the women—mother/widow and the wife—who seek to move forward with their lives...
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Knuckler

One of the oldest active MLB players, Boston pitcher Wakefield tells his life story (with sportswriter Massarotti, whose A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankee-Red Sox Rivalry and the War for the Pennant, with John Harper, is the best book on the Sox-Yanks rivalry)...
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The Physics of Pitching

A welcome title for any youth baseball coach or player, this pitching how-to guide illustrates each important step or movement in the successful delivery of the horsehide and instructs ably on injury avoidance, preparation (both physical and mental), and health and medicine, with an especially useful concluding chapter on "Choosing Your Post High School Path...
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Campy

The first clue that this is not the usual account of a baseball great is the cover photo depicting a forlorn if not troubled soul...
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Branch Rickey

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The Greatest Game Ever Pitched

On July 2, 1963, the Milwaukee Braves met the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, with Warren Spahn, who dominated pitching in the 1950s, facing Juan Marichal, who would dominate in the 1960s (together with Bob Gibson)...
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