About this title: This book features an intimate portrait of baseball, friendship, and one man's fight to change the world. In this endearing personal memoir, former Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine takes us back to the giddy postwar heyday of Brooklyn baseball. In a time when the sport was just recovering from the ravages of World War II and when the United States still divided buses and lunch counters into black and white, baseball stepped up to the plate and invited Jackie Robinson onto the field. The game - and all professional sports - would never be the same. Carl Erskine was in the minor leagues when he ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date Published: 2005-02-01
ISBN-13:9780071450850ISBN:0071450858
Description: Like New. Never Owned Or Read! Some May Have A Publishers Remainder Mark or Light Shelf Wear. NEW CONDITION OTHER THAN PUBLISHERS REMAINDER MARK! read more
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean and tight with slight shelf wear, and slight edge wear of the dust jacket. Like New. Text clean with no markings. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. 0071450858 HARDCOVER, UNREAD NEW BUT HAS A VERY TINY BIT OF SHELF WEAR FROM DISPLAY OR STORAGE, CLEAN & COMPLETE PAGES & COVER, MAY HAVE REMAINDER MARKS. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780071450850ISBN:0071450858
Description: New. An intimate portrait of baseball, friendship, and one man's fight to change the world In this endearing personal memoir, former Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine takes us back to the giddy postwar heyday of Brooklyn baseball. In a time when the sport was... read more
Description: Good. 0071450858 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780071450850ISBN:0071450858
Description: New in new dust jacket. OFF THE PRESS NEW! We ship 4 times a week. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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