Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing About It a Game

Kahn, Roger · 1997

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

NY: Hyperion, 1997. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., The gilded era of baseball.

Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro

McCarver, Tim · 1998

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY: Villard, 1998. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., McCarver explains the fundamentals and proper mechanics of the Nation's pasttime so you can devise strategy and get into the heads of the players and coaches.

Baseball and Billions: a Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime

Zimbalist, Andrew · 1992

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY: Harper Collins Basic Books, 1992. 1st printing of 1st edition., light foxing along page edges (not effecting page margins or text) otherwise very good+ in fine dust jacket., In an era in which the average baseball player makes more than $1 million in salary, how does one d...

Baseball Tales: Major League Writers on the National Pastime

Photographs By Terry Heffernan With And Introduction By Lawrence S Ritter · 1993

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

NY: Viking Studio Books, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., Contributors include W.P. Kinsella, James Thurber, Edna Ferber, Damon Runyon & Nunnally Johnson but the best part is the photographs by Heffernan, the first photographer to ...

The Duke of Flatbush

Snider, Duke With Bill Gilbert & An Introduction By Carl Eskine · 1988

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,358)

NY: Zebra, 1988. 2nd printing., light wear along top edge otherwise near fine hard cover book/ slight edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Sweet Lou

Piniella, Lou & Maury Allen · 1986

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Putnam, 1986. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

The Toughest Job in Baseball

Pascarelli, Peter · 1993

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., What managers do, how they do it and why it gives them ulcers.

Over the Edge

Johnstone, Jay & Rick Talley · 1985

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Chicago: Contemporary, 1985. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Bats

Johnson, Davey & Peter Golenbock · 1986

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

NY: Putnam, 1986. 1st printing of 1st edition., small adhesive residual on front end paper otherwise near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Catfish: My Life in Baseball

Hunter, Jim Catfish With A Foreword By George Steinbrenner · 1988

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

NY: McGraw Hill, 1988. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ small closed tear on dust jacket spine otherwise near fine dust jacket.

The Progress of the Seasons: Forty Years of Baseball in Our Town

Higgins, George V · 1989

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY: Henry Holt, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book/ small scuff on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket., Higgins attended his first Red Sox game in 1946 as an 8 year old which began his love affair with the team and his town.

Basepaths: From the Minor Leagues to the Majors and Beyond

Gunther, Marc · 1984

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

NY: Scribner, 1984. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., An exploration of the peaks and valleys of a professional baseball career: Ferguson Jenkins on being on the downside of a distinguished career, Ron Kittle on the pressure following sen...

Out at the Old Ball Game

Bookbinder, Bernie · 1995

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Bridgehampton: Bridgeworks Publ, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Baseball Wit

Adler, Bill · 1986

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Crown Publishers, 1986. 2nd printing., fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A collection of wise, salty, ironic, & very funny comments on the great American game.