Tom Stanton, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30350-1
In this heartfelt effort, journalist and author Stanton examines family, fatherhood, life and, of course, baseball while on a road trip that was a lifetime in the making. As a boy, the baseball-obsessed Stanton dreamed of visiting the Hall of Fame...
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Tom Stanton, Author . Morrow $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-057976-0
In April 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's longstanding record for homers, which Aaron had days earlier tied on his first swing of the '74 baseball season. Stanton, whose The Final Season
won the Casey Award for...
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Tom Stanton, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-36159-4
Stanton's story of the rivalry-turned-friendship of Ty Cobb (with the Detroit Tigers) and Babe Ruth (with the Red Sox and Yankees) is as splendid as a sunny spring day at the ballpark. Cobb held eight consecutive batting titles the first time he
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Tom Stanton, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-27288-3
After the Detroit Tigers' owners announced that 1999 would be the last season played in 87-year-old Tiger Stadium, Michigan journalist Tom Stanton (Rocket Man: Elton John from A-Z) fulfilled his childhood dream of attending all 81 home games....
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Tom Stanton. Lyons, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4930-1570-2
Glittering triumphs cover up a sordid racist conspiracy in this lively vignette of the Motor City in its heyday. Swerving between hysterical excitement and hysterical fear, the city embodied the roiling socioeconomic and ideological currents of the...
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