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  • Bitten by the Red Sox Baseball Bug
    Bill Nowlin
    Longtime diehard Red Sox fans did just that-DIE HARD-almost too many times to count over the decades until they finally won the World Series in 2004 after an incredible postseason run.Red Sox scholar Bill Nowlin, a fan for nearly 50 years when Boston finally triumphed, endured many of those heartbreaks, and once the shock of the win wore off, Bill found that the essence of his ...
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    15,06 €

  • Sox Bid Curse Farewell
    Bill Nowlin
    In 2004, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in historic fashion. This book, published on the 20th anniversary of the 2004 championship, celebrates that team by collecting biographies all of the players on the roster alongside essays about that unprecedented postseason run and its ripples throughout New England. These biographies include everyone on the team, from the stars...
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    30,17 €

  • One-Win Wonders
    Bill Nowlin
    In One-Win Wonders, we meet 78 players whose time in the major leagues included only a single pitching win. One-Win Wonders is a companion book to the 2021 SABR book One-Hit Wonders, which included biographies of players who had gotten only a single hit.The 78 players whose biographies are presented here are among the 915 players who completed their major-league career with jus...
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    34,58 €

  • 'The Kid' Blasts a Winner
    Bill Nowlin
    As if Ted Williams’s numbers needed any help, recent research reveals that 110 of his 521 career home runs-more than 20%-were game-winners. 'The Kid' Blasts a Winner, by Red Sox guru Bill Nowlin, tells the story of every one of them. Williams’s first game-winner came just 10 games into his career, a mammoth blast, likely the longest ball ever hit at Briggs Stadium. His last cam...
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    13,87 €

  • Dominicans in the Major Leagues
    Bill Nowlin
    Any fan of present-day Major League Baseball recognizes that the Dominican Republic is well-represented by many key players throughout the sport. Around 800 natives of the Dominican Republic have played in the majors-a full 300 more than any other country, aside from the United States.The first was Pedro Alejandro San, who pitched in the Eastern Colored League in 1926 for the C...
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    40,86 €

  • Baseball’s Greatest Comeback Games
    Bill Nowlin
    What are Major League Baseball’s greatest comeback games? This book set out to collect the stories of those games, but rather than throw together an anecdotally-determined collection of games, SABR decided to see if there was an objective measure, a way to determine which was the greatest comeback game of all time, and to rank the games. Retrosheet’s Tom Ruane created a master ...
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    21,41 €

  • Vinyl Ventures
    Bill Nowlin
    Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records is less a standard history and more an idiosyncratic memoir written by one of the three Rounder founders.Rounder Records was born in 1970, a 'hobby that got out of control,' a fledgling record company more or less conceived when vinyl still reigned, while the Sixties were still in flower, and which began publishing on a shoestri...
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    40,39 €

  • Working a 'Perfect Game'
    Bill Nowlin
    Over the course of four years, prolific baseball writer and editor Bill Nowlin interviewed 72 major league umpires, another two dozen call-up and AAA umpires, and four umpire supervisors. The result is the most complete and intimate portrait ever done of a vitally important yet largely unappreciated aspect of professional baseball.Nowlin’s deep knowledge of the game and of umpi...
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    15,67 €

  • The Great Red Sox Spring Training Tour of 1911
    Bill Nowlin
    In 1911, decades before coast-to-coast travel became a fact of life in major league baseball, the Boston Red Sox embarked on the most ambitious spring training trip ever taken. After a full slate of games throughout California, the team decamped from Redondo Beach and made its way east, stopping in 10 states and the Arizona Territory, and playing in places such as Pueblo, Y...
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    42,94 €