Search Results: Sport from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y.,Doubleday, 1977. Soft Cover. 126, [1] p. illus. 26 cm. Techniques for playing each position by the former NY Yankee infielder and Forham University coach, with a baseball writer. Stock #29,032. Vg/ wrappers

Rand McNally.. Hard Cover. 224 p., illus. incl. color, color pictorial endpapers, 25 cm. "The characters in this story are real and to them "Born To Trot" is dedicated. To the man Benjamin Franklin White, the dean of colt trainers, and four-time winner of the Hambletonian. To the boy Gibson White, owner of Rosalind, and son of "Hambletonian Ben". To the filly Rosalind, world champion trotting mare, 1:56 3/4; record in double harness with Greyhound, 1:58 1/4." Brown cloth boards stamped in gold; well worn, ink owner name & stamp; good. 37908.

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on sport. J&S, Derrydale, 141 items; Anglers, approx. 120 items lifted from past catalogues. Both stapled in paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0295.

Cambridge, MA : Rounder Books, c2005.. Soft Cover. viii, 231 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: Foreword / Bill Lee -- The shadow of Manny Ramirez / Rachel Solar -- Prospect / Jennifer Rapaport -- The autograph / Robert Weintraub -- The curse of the Bambino : a musical / David Kruh and Steven Bergman -- Heirloom / Elizabeth Pariseau -- Saint Red Sock's Day / Jonathan P. Winickoff -- My night at Fenway / Amy Saks -- The long dark voyage / Matthew Hanlon -- First start / Tom Snee -- The opposite field / Jeff Parenti -- Opening day / Tracy Miller Geary -- Bambino Road, chapter one / Cecilia Tan -- Fischer at Fenway / Mitch Evich -- The prophecy : a Red Sox alternate history / Sam and Christina Polyak -- Life, death, love, and baseball / Skye Alexander -- Ice age : a one-act play / David Kruh -- Green monster / Adam Emerson Pachter -- A Sox fan's wildest dream / Bill Nowlin. Stock# 43,777. Vg / soft cover.

N.Y., St Martins, 1981. Soft Cover. viii, 215 p.,illus., 27cm. Covers all aspects of hang gliding as a sport. Stock# 33,323. Vg/ soft cover.

"Nine Hundred And Fifty Copies Of "Hits and Misses" Have Been Printed by Eugene V. Connett at The Derrydale Press. This Copy Is Number [110] [signed by] Paul Brown." 53 unnumbered leaves [= 106 pages] of illustrations & commentary by Paul Brown. "This sketch book is the result of many hours of close concentration along the boards and at the picket lines of many polo fields. Each drawing... is a matter of record... for I have entered anything at all unusual which occurred in the course of each afternoon's sport. ...credit is given the man who thought quickly or who had the ability to execute a brilliant piece of work." As a young horse-crazy fan of Paul Brown (Crazy Quilt!) I may remark that his sketches are true to the nature of both horse & human. Bound in now-yellow & scuffed boards with black & blue front-cover illustration; black buckram spine lettered in gold; minor water-marks around inner cover edges not intruding into text; internally clean; marks on both front & rear covers indicate… Read More

NY, St. Martin's Press [1976]. Hard Cover. Dorian Williams has been associated with the world's most popular horse show since its beginnings in Harringay in 1949 to Wembley in 1975. A thorough behind-the-scenes look, with a great deal of friendly British chat. 168 p., illus. throughout incl. color, index; 23.5 cm.; color pictorial dj; VG+. 101325.

New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., ©2009.. Hard Cover. xviii, 302 p., [16] p. of plates (some col.) : illus. ; index, 24 cm. Gutlon scorns the idea of the Curse of the Bambino, but blames the 86 year period without a Boston pennant on inept ownership. Stock# 45,066. Vg / dj vg.

Pawtucket, RI, Red Sox Baseball Club, 1993. Periodical. 188 p., illus.; 28 cm. The Pawsox as the AAA International League Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, a step below major-league level. Stock#L493. Vg / program.

Price list of Mark Jordan, autograph & memorabilia dealer, dedicated to baseball: Autographed Baseballs-- Team, 93 items; Living Players-- Autographed Baseballs, 292; Football Memorabilia, 375; Basketball Memorabilia, 23; Football Miscellaneous, 30; Boxing, 1; Single Autograph Baseball, [many]; Deceased Players Autographed Baseballs, 24. Stapled in blue pictorial wraps; Good. Stock#ofc0294.

NY, Random House, c1977. Hard Cover. 415 p., [8] leaves of plates, illus.; 25 cm. Biography of a baseball writer who turned his sports writing to humor. Bibliography, pp. [399]-405. Stock#45293. Good+/ dj good +.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984, ©1982.. Soft Cover. xi, 288 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. 272-280. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 45,243. Good+ / soft cover.

N.Y., Crescent Books, 1991. Hard Cover. 144 p., 175 full color illus., 25.5 x 27 cm. Foreward by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. 60 courses described and illustrated: 8 in California; 6 in South Carolina. Good+, four courses ticked in ball-point pen on map. Gift inscription / dj good, torn, taped. Stock#44147.

New York, Norton, [1954]. Hard Cover. 250 p., 21 cm. The Faust legend comes to baseball in a story of the Devil, temptation and those Damn Yankees. Stock# 38,744. Good+, book club/ no dj.