A deluxe baseball treasury unlike any other, complete with essays, photos, and player bios from The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Everyone dreams of Cooperstown. It's a hallowed name in baseball, for players as well as their fans. It's a house where legends live; it's everything that's great about the game. Never before has the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum published a complete registry of inductees with plaques, photographs, and extended biographies. In this unique, 75th anniversary edition, read the stories of every player inducted into the Hall, organized by position. Each section begins with an original essay by a living Hall of Famer who played that position: Hank Aaron, George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Carlton Fisk, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Morgan, Jim Rice, Cal Ripken Jr., Nolan Ryan, and Robin Yount.
Here are just a few highlights from the nearly 200 objects in this beautiful book: -An 1887 ball-strike indicator from the only season when it took five balls to walk and four strikes to strike out -Pitcher Harvey Haddix’s glove from the ...
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A collection of photographs, plaques, and stories that reflects on the careers of legendary baseball players.
Historic Photography from the Baseball Hall of Fame Archives The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ... to specialentire staff toof thethe following individualsHall forof invaluableand goes the National Baseball Fame with thanks ...
2 * PINSTRIPE PRIDE RIDE The 2008 All-Star Game held a parade in New York City. Here's Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra as they pass by Radio City Music Hall. —Andy Strasberg 3 * SMILING GOOSE The 2010 Cooperstown Parade featured all.
Presents historical photographs and original essays on Hall of Fame players by nine of the country's finest baseball writers.
About the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an independent not-forprofit educational institution, dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball ...
The rankings appear alongside stunning photography and classic stories from SI's archives. This is the best of the best in the major leagues, or, more simply, Baseball's Greatest.
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group is America's largest publisher and distributor of sports books. We cover all the bases for 32 sports and have more than 300 titles in print. Our list...
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