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    Items with the tag:

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    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
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    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
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    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

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    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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