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Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe
    Author: Cullen, Robert
    Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26 ISBN: 0060185546 Date: 2001
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    Hilarious and heartwarming, Cullen's novel is an unforgettable tale in which the most humbling of sports--golf--illuminates the human capacity for both heartbreak and joy. As a blind man sets out to win the PGA Championship, lessons will be learned about the true meaning of "vision" in competition, friendship, and love.
    Updated 4/20/01
  • Baseball: A Literary Anthology
    Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas (ed)
    Publisher: Library of America $ 35 ISBN: 193108209x Date: 2002
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    Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sports is also the most poetic, and writers have been drawn to this sport as to no other. With Baseball: A Literary Anthology, The Library of America presents the story of the national adventure as revealed through the fascinating lens of the great American game.
    Updated 2/24/02
  • Fourth Down
    Author: Klein, Dave
    Publisher: Forge List Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312863705 Date: 1999
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    When a star quarterback, who is bring forced by the mob to throw games, dies in the middle of a game, a former teammate starts digging deep into the suspected murder.
    Suggested Reading: Mobbed Up
  • Double Play
    Author: Parker, Robert B.
    Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399151885 Date: 2004
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    In a brilliant novel about a very real man, Parker tells the story of the 1947 baseball season--when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier--through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, wounded man hired to guard Robinson.
    Suggested Reading: Biographical Fiction | Historical Fiction
    Updated 3.29.04