 | Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.54 Great biography. Maybe a little bit spicy for kids, but it was an easy read.
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 | Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss
Buy used from: $1.43 Great book. I learned a lot. It shows a great guy and the whole story. It show the good times, but it also shows the tragedy and the prejudice.
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 | Queen of the Negro Leagues : Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles by James Overmyer
Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $3.04 This is a very interesting woman. Not only was she a woman succeeding in a man's world, but she was a white woman passing herself off as a black woman. This is the only woman in the baseball hall of fame.
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 | The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever by John Feinstein
Buy used from: $0.01 This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read. The images that the book paints for you are great. There are a lot of emotions going on. Some of them are justified and some are an over reaction. This is a major scandel. I felt like I was there.
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 | Josh Gibson: THE POWER AND THE DARKNESS by Mark Ribowsky
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $8.99 One of the best Negro league players. He is not as well known as Satchel Paige, but he was a great catcher and hitter. He hit a lot of homeruns, but the league did not keep very good records. His life was cut short by a brain tumor and did not get to play in the major leagues.
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 | The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game by Oscar Robertson
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.30 A great story of the NBA and a star player parting ways. Shows what basketball was like big for the big salary and free agency. A great player on a pretty bad team that couldn't get away because of the team owning him.
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 | And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Basketball Game That Changed American Sports by Frank Fitzpatrick
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $4.00 The team from Glory Road. Great book. The first all black starting lineup against Kentucky and their all white lineup. A great coach who saw beyond color to get a great team.
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 | Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.91 |
 | Shattering the Glass: The Dazzling History of Women's Basketball from the Turn of the Century to the Present by Pamela Grundy
Buy used from: $5.99 |
 | Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $3.88 |
 | Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Sport and Society) by Susan E. Cayleff
Buy new: $18.85 / Used from: $1.49 |
 | Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game by John Feinstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball by Tom Graham
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $0.65 |
 | Maybe I'll Pitch Forever by Leroy Paige
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.99 |
 | Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky
Buy used from: $8.15 |
 | Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded by Gene Carney
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $4.70 |
 | The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant by Robert Cottrell
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $10.99 |
 | Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues by William Brashler
Buy new: $14.65 / Used from: $3.17 |
 | They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers by Ron Thomas
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.68 |
 | Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland by Stefan Fatsis
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $1.30 |
 | Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me by Neal Karlen
Buy used from: $0.29 |
 | Reach for the Summit by Pat Summitt
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.30 |
 | Raise the Roof by Pat Summitt
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.98 |
 | She Got Game: My Personal Odyssey by Cynthia Cooper
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream by Jim Collins
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $1.99 |
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