Beyond the Ballpark : The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends 9781442258679, 9781442258662

Baseball : Science at the Ballpark [1 ed.] 9781534561076, 9781534561069

Why does a curveball curve? Why is it sometimes better to slide into a base than to run to it? How can baseball players

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The Times Lives Less Ordinary: obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable 9780008562311, 9780008537913, 0008562318

The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for more than 150 years. This

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Hippocratic Lives and Legends 9004095748, 9789004095748

Bringing together the extant classical and principal Islamic biographies of Hippocrates, translated here for the first t

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Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time 9780385548427, 9780385548403, 0385548427

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college i

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After Acts: Exploring the Lives and Legends of the Apostles 9780802492067, 2014034360

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Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark 9780814789933

Read the review at MLB.com The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this li

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Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen [Reprint ed.] 0688168949, 9780688168940

Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science aut

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On the Private and Public Virtues of an Honorable Entrepreneur : Preventing a Separation of the Honorable and the Useful 9781498575584, 9781498575577

Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on honor, and his observation that a democracy's definition of honor "st

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Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond 9783110789836, 9783110789775

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astou

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Bush League Boys : The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest [1 ed.] 9780826355225, 9780826355218

This loving tribute to the defunct minor league teams of New Mexico and west Texas resurrects a forgotten period of base

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