Shecter leonard (23 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Sport Magazine Library, No. 11. (Baseball Players, Sports, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. 220 pages. Light shelf wear, pages yellowed; a sound binding; good shape overall. The jacket has some discoloring and staining; a few small tears; unclipped flap. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Baseball; Inventory No: 226665. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket has minor smudging and staining along with chipping and tearing; jacket price has been clipped. Book has staining to boards and notable edgewear. Page edges have minor foxing. Front end paper has note from previous owner. Some interior pages have minor smudges and staining but text is overall clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Unknown. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. Publisher's red top stain to top edge of text block. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Publisher's red cloth with black title on spine. Black end papers. The knuckleball pitcher's follow up to Ball Four.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

mass market paperback. Zustand: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 291 pages; good mass market paperback; spine starting to slant; scuff to face cover; tips bumped; tanning pages; previous owner name In ink inside front cover; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 20 anv edition. 465 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to covers and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are clear from notations. Light creasing visible across spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Minor creasing and tearing to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Sound binding. Previous owner's name inscribed on the front-end page; rest of the interior pages are clean and unmarked. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the First Edition of the published work. This copy is the First Printing of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. xvi, 528, followed by 16 pages of photographs. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Rick--Best Wishes Jim Bouton 5/2002. Signed by the author on the second fep. With a New Epilogue by the Author. This is a New York Public Library Books of the Century selection. The Preface was written in 1980 and updated in 1990 and 2000. Editor's Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: The Made Me What I Am Today; Part 2: "My Arm isn't Sore, Its Just A Little Stiff"; Part 3: And Then I Died; Part 4: I Always Wanted to See Hawaii; Part 5: The Yanks Are Coming, The Yanks Are Coming; Part 6: Shut Up; Part 7: Honey, Meet Me in Houston; Statistics; Ball Five--Ten Years Later; Ball Six--Twenty Years Later; Ball Seven--Thirty Years Later; Addendum, Acknowledgments; About the Editor; Other Books by the Author. Index. Ball Four is a baseball classic, a number one bestseller when it was published; it still is in demand throughout the U.S. Now in a new updated hardcover edition, Ball Four will reach a whole new generation of avid baseball fans. In fact, Ball Four has been selected by the NY Public Library as one of the Books of the Century [the only 'sports' book to make it onto the list]. And David Halberstam writes: a book deep in the American Vein, so deep in fact that is by no means a sports book. Bouton has written a baseball book about the reality of the game. Thirty years after its publication, it remains as wonderful to read as ever. James Alan Bouton (March 8, 1939 - July 10, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He was also a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew. Bouton was a member of the 1962 World Series champions, appeared in the 1963 MLB All-Star Game, and won both of his starts in the 1964 World Series. Later in his career, he developed and threw a knuckleball. Bouton authored the 1970 baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the Yankees, Pilots, and Astros. Around 1968, sportswriter Leonard Shecter, who had befriended Bouton during his time with the Yankees, approached him with the idea of writing a season-long diary. Bouton agreed; he had taken some notes during the 1968 season with a similar goal. The diary that became Ball Four chronicled Bouton's experiences the next year with the Pilots. The diary also followed Bouton during his two-week stint with the triple-A Vancouver Mounties in April, and after his trade to the Houston Astros in late August. Ball Four was not the first baseball diary, but it became more widely known and discussed than its predecessors. The book was a frank, insider's look at professional sports teams, covering the off-the-field side of baseball life, including petty jealousies, obscene jokes, drunken tomcatting of the players, and routine drug use, including by Bouton himself. Upon its publication, baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn called Ball Four "detrimental to baseball", and tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying that the book was completely fictional. Bouton, however, refused to deny any of Ball Four's revelations. Some teammates never forgave him for disclosing information given to him in confidence, and naming names. The book made Bouton unpopular with many players, coaches, and officials on other teams as well; he was informally blacklisted from baseball. Bouton's writings about Mickey Mantle's lifestyle were most notorious, though they comprise few pages of Ball Four and much of the material was complimentary. For example, when Bouton got his first shutout win as a Yankee, he describes Mantle laying a "red carpet" of white towels leading directly to Bouton's locker in his honor. The controversy and book sales enabled Bouton to write a sequel, I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally, in which he discussed both the controversies and reactions to Ball Four, and the end of his original pitching career and his transition to becoming a New York sportscaster. He updated the original book with a new extended postscript that provided a ten-year update, dubbed Ball Five. In 1978, Ted Turner signed Bouton to a contract with the Atlanta Braves. He was called up to join Atlanta's rotation in September, and compiled a 1-3 record in five starts. Bouton added Ball Six, updating the stories of the players in Ball Four, for the 20th anniversary edition. All were included (in 2000) as Ball Four: The Final Pitch, along with a new coda that detailed the death of his daughter and his reconciliation with the Yankees. Revised Edition [stated]. Later printing.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 68 pages. Features: The Sixties - Our Unbelievable Decade - with many of the most dramatic images, especially JFK; The Tense Vigil of Mrs. O'Grady - her husband, Air Force Maj. John O'Grady went down over North Vietnam 32 months ago and his fate is still unknown; Our last chance to halt the arms race; Children of the World; Godfrey Cambridge Turns White; Mussels from Maine; Zorba the Viking - Photo-illustrated article on Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Kapp. Ads: Beautiful color-photo ad inside front cover for the 1970 Mercury Cyclone GT; Tareyton 100's; Calvert Extra Whiskey; AT&T ad features large blurry photo of New York Giants football player; Color photo ad for the 1970 Chevelle Malibu; Polaroid's Countdown Camera; Beautiful Bulova watch ad; Nice back cover L&M cigarette ad features good-looking couple. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Kane, Art; et al (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Book belonged to the Pacheco Club library, with stamps on the first and last free end papers being the only library markings. Black boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Unclipped jacket has mild edge wear and chipping. Book and jacket are both in very good condition. A handsome copy. Scarce. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 12 mo. Fine in lightly rubbed else near fine dust jacket.

dj. First printing. Inscribed first edition of "the book that changed baseball" (NPR) - a hilarious demystification of the national pastime and one of the greatest books on the sport ever written. Praised by the great baseball writer Roger Angell in THE NEW YORKER ("a rare view of a highly complex public profession seen from the innermost inside, along with an even more rewarding inside view of an ironic and courageous mind"), BALL FOUR also exposed the dirty secrets of the major leagues. Bouton's badmouthing of everyone from Carl Yastrzemski to Mickey Mantle - as well as his descriptions of philandering husbands and upper-popping all stars - made the book a bestseller and pioneered the "tell-all" memoir. BALL FOUR has since gone on to numerous revised editions, with more than 5 million copies in print. The true first, however, remains uncommon. A nice example of this baseball classic, uncommon signed. 9'' x 5.75''. Original full pale blue cloth. In original unclipped ($6.95) photographic jacket designed by Milton Charles. xiv, 402 pages. Inscribed by Bouton on the front free endpaper: "For Butch / 'Smoke 'em inside' / Jim Bouton." Jacket moderately rubbed and edgeworn with some creasing and soil. Small dampstain to verso at spine. Book with mottling to cloth. A bit shaken. Some foxing to endpapers. A bit shabby, but sound and presents well. Very good minus in a very good minus jacket. Signed.…

Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. New York: World Publishing Company, [1970]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Thick octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); xiii,[1],400pp.; four leaves of halftone illus. printed on rectos and versos. Jacket quite chipped and worn with triangular loss at top edge of upper panel not approaching text, uniform dust-soiling to jacket and textblock margins, cloth margins spotted; a Good to Very Good example of the scarce first printing. Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton's diary of the 1969 season, which began with the Seattle Pilots followed by a trade to the Houston Astros. …