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License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent

License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent

by Jerry Crasnick

The movie Jerry Maguire and HBO series Arli$$ barely skimmed the surface. Now the true inside story of the sports agent business is exposed as never before. During baseball's evolution from national pastime to a $3.6 billion business, the game's agents have played a pivotal role in driv-ing and (some might say) ruining the sport. In a world of unchecked egos and minimal regulation, client-stealing and financial... (more)

Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti

Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti

by James Reston

Collision at Home Plate is a dual biography of Pete Rose, an uncouth but great ballplayer who suffered disgrace and imprisonment, and Bart Giamatti, the baseball commissioner so deeply shaken and bruised by the Rose scandal that he died a week after it was made public. This is the definitive book on one of the most traumatic and tragic episodes in baseball history.

Bad Guys Won

by Jeff Pearlman

In The Bad Guys Won , award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York. It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere. But their greatness on the field was... (more)

Juiced : Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big

Juiced : Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big

by Jose Canseco

When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport -- in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring. Canseco shattered the mold... (more)

Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose

Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose

by Michael Y. Sokolove

Who is Pete Rose? Is he Charlie Hustle, the all-American kid who never grew up, who pushed and stretched himself to get the most out of his limited talent, who would do anything in his power to win and to be a part of the game he loved? Or is he the bloated ex-athlete who broke baseball's one absolute taboo, and who was willing to drag down the whole structure of the sport to save himself? In January 2004, Pete... (more)

Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story

by Peter Lefcourt

Consider the possibilities: In the middle of a pennant race, a team's star shortstop falls in love with his second baseman. Which is exactly what happens to Randy Dreyfus, the best-hitting, best-fielding, best-looking, and most happily married young shortstop in the major leagues. The Dreyfus Affair combines romance, comedy, social satire, and some of the finest baseball writing in years. The result is a... (more)

Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and Out of Major League Baseball

Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life in and Out of Major League Baseball

by Billy Bean

From the only openly gay former major-league baseball player comes an unprecedented chronicle of America’s national pastime. Going the Other Way is an intimate memoir of a man who, in the prime of his career, faced a heartbreaking dilemma and, in time, learned to follow his own path. As a shirtless Little Leaguer racing around the sun-drenched diamonds of Southern California, Billy Bean imitated his childhood... (more)

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