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Items with the tag:

baseball

Cover of The Puttermans Are in the House
Chil­dren’s
The Put­ter­mans Are in the House
Jacquet­ta Nam­mar Feldman
Cover of Baseball and Belonging
Chil­dren’s
Base­ball and Belonging
Ryan Lavarn­way
Cover of Hank on First!: How Hank Greenberg Became a Star On and Off the Field
Chil­dren’s
Hank on First!: How Hank Green­berg Became a Star On and Off the Field
Stephen Krensky; Alette Straathof, illus.
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Non­fic­tion
Why We Love Base­ball: A His­to­ry in 50 Moments
Joseph Pos­nan­s­ki
Cover of Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Chil­dren’s
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
Cover of The Captain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thurman Munson
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The Cap­tain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thur­man Munson
Dan Epstein
Cover of Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
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Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
R. D. Rosen
Cover of The Jewish Baseball Card Book
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The Jew­ish Base­ball Card Book
Bob Wechsler, Peter McDonald, & Martin Abramowitz
Cover of The Spy Who Played Baseball
Chil­dren’s
The Spy Who Played Baseball
Car­rie Jones
Cover of Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
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Get Up: The Art of Perseverance
Adam Green­berg
Cover of Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball, and Philanthropy
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Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
Cover of The Baseball Haggadah: A Festival of Freedom and Springtime in 15 Innings
Chil­dren’s
The Base­ball Hag­gadah: A Fes­ti­val of Free­dom and Spring­time in 15 Innings
Sharon G. Forman; Lisa J. Teitelbaum, illus.
Essay

Anivut

Mort Zachter is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life. Today he writes for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil about why he, a Jew­ish man,…
Mort Zachter
March 3, 2015
Cover of Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire’s Journey
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Called Out but Safe: A Base­ball Umpire’s Journey
Al Clark & Dan Schlossberg
Cover of The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption
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The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Rose­boro Turned Base­bal­l’s Ugli­est Brawl into a Sto­ry of For­give­ness and Redemption
John Rosen­gren
Essay

A Mirac­u­lous Base­ball Team

Ear­li­er this week, Charles S. Sher­man wrote about a life-alter­ing event and how he’s han­dled the chal­lenge. His book, The Bro­ken and the Whole: Dis­cov­er­ing Joy…
Charles S. Sherman
February 26, 2014
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