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2019 They Played the Game They Played the Game 
Memories from 47 Major Leaguers
Never before released oral histories from baseball's bygone eras, 1912-1981.
2019 Timing by Norman L. Macht Timing A novel about time.
2015 The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956 The Grand Old Man of Baseball
Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956

In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball.

2012 Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 Connie Mack 
The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931

The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six pennants through 1914 under the leadership of their founder and manager, Connie Mack. But beginning in 1915, where volume 2 in Norman L.

2010 Image coming soon Football’s Last Iron Men
1934, Yale vs. Princeton, and One Stunning Upset
In November 1934, the Princeton football team—unbeaten in its last fifteen games—faced the 3–3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term “underdogs.” As much a thrilling play-by-play account of college football at its finest as it is a fascinating work of sports history, this book chronicles the season that brought Princeton and Yale together in a game like no other since.
2007 Connie Mack And the Early Years of Baseball Connie Mack 
And the Early Years of Baseball
Connie Mack (1862–1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game’s first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two years of Mack’s life, covers his experiences as player, manager, and club owner and will stand as the definitive biography of baseball’s most legendary and beloved figure.
2000 Image coming soon Uncle Robbie Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and other greats on the roughest team of the game’s toughest era. He went on to make a reputation with McGraw’s New York Giants as a great developer of pitchers. Subsequently he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly turning them into pennant winners and gradually becoming the borough’s beloved Uncle Robbie.
1999 Image coming soon Roger Clemens Baseball Legends series. A biography of the pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays who won his fourth Cy Young award in 1997.
1997 Image coming soon Greg Maddux Baseball Legends series. A biography of the star pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who has won the Cy Young award for four consecutive years.
1997 Image coming soon History of Slavery The History of Slavery examines the practice of slavery as it existed in early Mediterranean civilizations, during the Middle Ages, in Africa, among Indians in the Americas, and in the United States.
1995 Justice Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas 
Supreme Court Justice
Black Americans of Achievement Series. Introduction by Coretta Scott King. A biography of Judge Thomas, with a focus on his controversial confirmation for a seat on the Supreme Court.
1995 Image coming soon Sundays at 2:00 with the Baltimore Colts Thirty players, coaches, officials, and broadcasters talk about their lives and times with the Baltimore Colts from 1953 to 1984.
1994 Image coming soon Rex Barney's Orioles Memories 1969-1994 With collaborator Norman L. Macht, Rex Barney looks back at a quarter-century of Orioles baseball, as seen from inside the broadcast booth, the dugout, and the clubhouse. He talks about his favorite (and not-so-favorite) Orioles and baseball personalities.
1994 Image coming soon Muhammad Ali
The People's Champion
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1993 Image coming soon Rowdy Richard
A Firsthand Account of the National League Baseball Wars of the 1930s and the Men Who Fought Them
This is a definitive, analytical look at the style of the game, the characters of the ear, the managers, the owners, told by "the most exuberant rowdy of them all." Bartell covers the period from 1927 to 1954, baseball’s golden age.
1993 Image coming soon Rex Barney’s Thank Youuuu
for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore
This is the story of Rex Barney, the man who threw faster than Feller and Ryan; and whose pitching career sped by quicker than his fastball because he could not control it. Barney became a legend as part of the most exciting era of the Brooklyn Dodgers--1943 to 1951.
1992 Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor 
Supreme Court Justice
Junior World Biographies. A biography of the first woman to be appointed as a justice of the United States Supreme Court, giving background on her earlier legal career.
1992 Image coming soon Ty Cobb Baseball Legends series. Ty Cobb was probably the greatest all-around player in baseball history. But because he always played to win at all costs, he was also called the dirtiest, meanest, most hated man who ever wore spikes. A look at baseball's all-time leader in nearly every statistical category discusses his childhood, stellar career, his records, his personality, and more.
1991 Image coming soon Christy Mathewson Baseball Legends series. Follows the life and career of Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson. Intelligent, fiercely competitive, and an expert at throwing tough pitches with pinpoint control, Christy Mathewson may well have been the finest hurler of all time.
Image coming soon Tom Seaver Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Christopher Columbus Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Famous Financiers & Innovators
Exploring Business and Economics
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Image coming soon Jimmie Foxx Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Roberto Clemente Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Jim Abbott Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Roberto Alomar Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Money and Banking
Exploring Business and Economics
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Image coming soon Satchel Paige Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Sojourner Truth Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Roy Campanella Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Julius Erving Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Cy Young Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Babe Ruth Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Reggie Jackson Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Lou Gehrig Page is currently under construction
Image coming soon Taxes
Exploring Business and Economics
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Image coming soon Frank Robinson Page is currently under construction

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