New York: Scholastic, (1994.). SIGNED - History of black baseball written for older children/young adults, illustrated with many photographs. An interesting point is that in the declining days of the Negro Leagues, several women played on the teams. Includes a timeline, bibliography and index. 184 pages. ISBN: 0-590-458108.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1963). Hardcover - A title in The Big League Baseball Library. Includes chapters on Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges and more, and ends begins and ends with a chapters on the move to California- "The Great Trek" and "After Ebbets Field". x, 194 pp.

Dalls, TX: Taylor, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by the writer who has been called the "best writer on sports today." Themes range from personal favorites to pro and college football, baseball, fishing, olympics, boxing and more . Introduction by Michener. Index. xxi, 266 pp. ISBN: 0-87833-6095.

Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (c 1907) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with a frontispiece on plain paper stock. 287 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition - Rather uncommon advance issue of this author's highly praised first novel - a touching story told within the context of a season in a Little League baseball team. Well-written and honest, this book is a wonderful discovery. Finalist for the National Book Award.

USA: Sports Publishing, LLC., 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'A collection of the greatest Arizona Diamondback stories ever told' - stories which help to explain how this new baseball expansion team, which lost 97 games in 1998, their first season, and won the World Series in 2001, just 3 years later. Illustrated with drawings. 181 pp. ISBN: 1-58261-4946.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover first edition - The first book in an eight book series, set at Yale University, and consisting of interrelated stories focusing on sports - especially baseball, but also track and field, and football, as well as an account of a most unusual regatta. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 5 internal glossy plates by Worth Brehm, Tissue guard for frontispiece. The author was a noted journalist, who had attended Yale and who was on the football and rowing teams. 356 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads for other stories of college life.

New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, told from the point of view of the man hired by the Dodgers to protect Robinson. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-399151885.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999). First edition - An homage to the Cleveland Indians of the years past, and what ties them together. Highlights include: glories of 1984 championship, 1899 Cleveland Spiders the "losingest" tea, in Major League history, the relationship that brought Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers and more. 256 pp.

Toronto: Doubleday, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - In this story of a marooned circus sideshow troupe, a former baseball hero, and a Michigan village dominated by a fundamentalist religious sect, the author confronts some of the highest as well as the least desirable aspects of human motivation. Second novel by this Canadian author who has been compared to Tom Robbins and John Irving.

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography written for children by the Baltimore Orioles' All Star shortstop, one which shares the twists and turns and shares some of the lessons he learned on the way. Illustrated with photographs and full color paintings by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-9159.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this record setting pitcher, who was named to the Hall of Fame the year this was published. Includes his statistics, index. 191 pp.

New York: Hurst and Company, (1911). Hardcover first edition - The third book in this six book series. "Baseball is the main theme of this interesting narrative, and that means not only clear and clever descriptions of thrilling games, but an intimate acquaintance with the members of the teams who played them. The Oakdale Boys were ambitious and loyal, and some were even disgruntled and jealous, but earnest, persistent work won out." lllustrated with a frontispiece and three glossy internal plates by Elizabeth Colborne. 311 pp.

New York: Norton, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel. At 21 Ward Sullivan seemed to have it all, as a star player on the Boston Red Sox farm team - then tragedy intervened and he found himself just another ex-jock. Twelve years later, he is just beginning to learn how to come to terms with this. INSCRIBED on the title page to Larry Owens, the noted Oklahoma book collector. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-393015254.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1935). Hardcover - A rather uncommon Snell title - features the young detective Johnny Thompson, who is in a quiet little city at the home of his grandfather. Nevertheless he is soon caught up in mysterious events at the baseball games - an airplane which circles the field every time the home team is winning seems to have the power to put the pitcher off his game. 233 pp.

New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.

New York: Kensington, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp. ISBN: 1-575664550.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring this Boston attorney, this one involving the kidnapping of the son of a former Red Sox pitcher. SIGNED and dated on the title page, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-68418446X.

Cleveland, Ohio: Goldsmith Publishing, (1928) dj. Hardcover - The first of the four Ward Hill books, originally published in 1897. As a new student at Weston, Ward wins some popularity for his sport abilities - espectially at baseball but neglects his studies and comes under the influence of boys who are not the proper companions.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. SIGNED first edition - "How the Oakland A's of the 1970s - a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers - won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age." SIGNED and dated in 2016 (before official publication date) on the half title page. Cast of characters. Notes. 365 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Features the stories of ten outstanding ballplayers from the 30's and 40's including Elden Auker, Dom DiMaggio, Warren Spahn, John 'Buck' O'Neil, Johnny Pesky, Bob Feller, Tommy Henrich, Larry Doby, Ralph Kiner, and Monte Irvin. The Baseball Oral History Project, Volume One. Photographs, index. 243 pp. ISBN: 9780743273176.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A wordless tribute by this Caldecott winning illustrator to sandlot baseball - one which tells the story, in lovely detailed acrylic, gouache and watercolor paintings, of a young boy's waiting to catch a ball in the outfield. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0544309029.