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1. So You Think You Know Baseball?: A Fan's Guide to the Official Rules

   Peter E. Meltzer, Rich Marazzi

   Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules.More

2. Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports

   Mark Ribowsky

   “Brilliant . . . entertaining . . . a thought-provoking portrayal of the multi-faceted Howard Cosell in all his glory and enmity.”—Don Ohlmeyer, Wall Street JournalMore

3. The Seven Seas Calendar 2013: The Sailor's Calendar

   Ferenc Máté

   Sail away to another time.More

4. The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s—The Era that Created Modern Sports

   Kevin Cook

   The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence.More

5. Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers

   Ray Negron, Sally Cook, Hank Steinbrenner

   “You don’t have to be a Yankees fan to love Yankee Miracles.”—Yogi BerraMore

6. The Voodoo Wave: Inside a Season of Triumph and Tumult at Maverick's

   Mark Kreidler

   “A finely crafted tale of the enigmatic world of big-wave surfers.”—Kirkus ReviewsMore

7. Classic Hikes of North America: 25 Breathtaking Treks in the United States and Canada

   Peter Potterfield

   Everything you need to know about the United States' and Canada's most enjoyable hiking routes and backcountry excursions.More

8. Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports

   John D. Barrow

   An entertaining, eye-opening guide to what math and physics can reveal about sports.More

9. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

   Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan

   "Buried in the Sky is a compelling account of the men who have literally shouldered the rest of the world’s mountaineers up K2." —Norman Ollestad, best-selling author of Crazy for the StormMore

10. The Seven Seas Calendar 2012: The Sailor's Calendar

    Ferenc Máté

    Sail away to another time.More

11. Moneyball

    Michael Lewis

    Movie Tie-in Edition

    “You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [Moneyball]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park.” —Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

12. The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

    Jennifer Jordan

    “A fascinating tale. . . . Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed.”—Associated PressMore

13. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

    Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee

    Third Edition

    The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal).More

14. The Book of Wooden Boats

    Benjamin Mendlowitz, Maynard Bray, John Rousmaniere

    Volume(s): III

    America's premier photographer of wooden boats presents the best of his work from the past decade.More

15. Rickwood Field: A Century in America's Oldest Ballpark

    Allen Barra

    The extraordinary social history of Rickwood Field is the story of baseball itself, gloriously evoked for the centennial of America’s oldest ballpark.More