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Tom Stanton

Tom Stanton's The Final Season offers a powerful memoir of fathers, sons, and the end of a baseball era.Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or Vin Scully called the plays on radio. Or maybe he coached your team or just played catch with you in the yard. Chances are good that if you're a baseball fan, your dad had somet...

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Tom Stanton

As he did with his award-winning book, The Final Season, Tom Stanton again tells a magical tale of fathers, brothers, and baseball heroes certain to resonate with sports fans everywhere.Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, t...

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Tom Stanton

The incredible saga of baseball's fiercest rivals—Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth—the forging of a surprising friendship, and the battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship."A thoroughly absorbing tale that has all the charm and elements of an unforgettable film." —James Dodson, author of Final Rounds and Ben Hogan: An American LifeEarly in the twentieth century, fate thrust...

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Tom Stanton

This dramatic account of the record-breaking homer—and what Hank Aaron endured to achieve it—is "a story that transcends baseball" ( Boston Herald).Baseball has witnessed more than 125,000 home runs. Countless home runs have altered the outcome of baseball games. Some have decided pennants and become legend. But no dinger has had greater impact than Hank Aaron's 715th home run. His historic blast on April 8, 1974, lifted him above Babe Ruth on the all-time ...

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David M. Rubenstein

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David M. Rubenstein, Jim Crane, Josh Harris, Rick Hendrick III, Samantha Holloway, Michele Kang, Robert Kraft, Ted Leonsis, Jeffrey Lurie, Tony Ressler, Tom Ricketts, John Stanton, Joe Tsai, Mat Ishbia, Clara Wu Tsai

*INSTANT BESTSELLER*Go inside the high-stakes world of sports ownership as New York Times bestselling author and owner of the Baltimore Orioles David M. Rubenstein reveals the financial strategies, leadership secrets, and billion-dollar deal-making behind championship franchises through conversations with America's most powerful owners—Robert Kraft, Jeff Lurie, Tom Ricketts, and more.What d...

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Hugh B. Cave, Griffith Chase, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Andrew Barnes, Keith Alan Deutsch, William Hughes, Josh Stanton

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Anthony Heald, Lorna Raver, Christine Williams, Rochelle Savitt, Tom Weiner, Grover Gardner

An eccentric boarding-house denizen winds up dead; his presumed killer, a fellow boarder, has vanished. The baffling case unfolds through the testimony of witnesses, who are themselves suspects.

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M. Stanton Evans

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Tom Weiner

Accused of creating a bogus Red scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half-century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch-hunts.But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited

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Thom Rainer, Gregory A. Wills, Richard Land, Timothy George, Paige Patterson, Ed Stetzer, Jim Shaddix, James Leo Garrett, Mike Day, Morris H. Chapman, R. Albert Mohler Jr., Daniel L. Akin, Russell Moore, Nathan A. Finn, R. Stanton Norman

What was once a small, southern, predominantly white denomination has become America's largest evangelical denomination. Yet with the Southern Baptist Convention's growth have come the challenges of increasing fragmentation, theological controversy, and sweeping cultural change. These challenges have caused leaders and members to ask: What does it mean to be a Southern Baptist in the twenty-first century? How can a fresh consensus be established from within? What are the core biblical conv...

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Mike Stanton

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Tom Perkins

Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of Providence, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mike Stanton tells a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption.Buddy Cianci was part urban visionary, part Tony Soprano—a flawed political genius in the mold of Huey Long and James Michael Curley. His lust fo...

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Larry Tye

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe**Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down t...

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Eliot Asinof

A "vividly, excitingly written" classic of baseball history: "The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record" ( Chicago Tribune).It was "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America"—the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the...

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Alan Siegel

**This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team that take readers inside the making of an American phenomenon during its most influential decade, the 1990s."The best Simpsons book ever."―Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone’s chief television critic and author of The Soprano Sessions and TV (The Book)**The Simpsons is an American institution. B...