Complete Baseball Hall of Fame Collection, 27 Volumes

The Complete Baseball Hall of Fame Collection

Easton Press, 27 Volumes

FINE Condition

Now you can own baseball's classic books - in the most beautiful editions ever published.  Each book measures approximately 9” x 6” and features the usual Easton Press fineries including full chocolate leather covers, silk moiré endpapers, gold gilding and gilting and built in satin bookmarks.  

From Cooperstown to you . . twenty-seven of the greatest baseball books of all time, as selected by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  Relive baseball's legendary moments:  Lou Gehrig's moving and heroic farewell speech from Yankee Stadium's home plate . . Jackie Robinson's history - making opening day appearance at Ebbett's Field . . .Carlton Fisk's magnificent extra-inning home run to win Game Six of the 1975 World Series . . . and so many more.  This extraordinary baseball library features insightful and compelling memoirs by Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays . . . brilliant histories like Roger Kahn's The boys of Summer and George Will's Men at Work . . . and all-time great stories like Bernard Malamud's The Natural and W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe.  The great works of America's pastime are immortalized here in what can truly be called Hall-of-Fame editions. The books in the collection are:

1)   Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
2)   Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
3)   The Mick by Mickey Mantle
4)   Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
5)   Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered by Maury Allen
6)   Men at Work by George Will
7)   Shoeless Joe: Field of Dreams by W.P. Kinsella
8)   The Natural by Bernard Malamud
9)   The Summer Game by Roger Angell
10) Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert W. Creamer
11) Say Hey:  Autobiography of Willie Mays
12) My Turn at Bat by Ted Williams
13) 1947:  When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball by Red Barber
14) Ring Around the Bases Baseball Stories by Ring Lardner
15) The Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg
16) Lou Gehrig Pride of the Yankees by Paul Gallico
17) I'll Pitch Forever by Satchel Paige
18) Slide, Kelly, Slide by Marty Appel
19) Baseball The Early Years by Harold Seymour
20) Baseball The Golden Age by Harold Seymour
21) Baseball The People's Game by Harold Seymour
22) The Southpaw by Mark Harris
23) Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson
24) Sadaharu Oh by Sadaharu Oh and David Falkner
25) The Celebrant by Eric Greenberg
26) The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball by Lawrence Ritter
27) Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball by John Helyar

The condition of the set is FINE. The books are in excellent condition and appear to have never been read. There are no bookplates, markings, or any other signs of previous ownership. This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain a beautiful collection of the greatest baseball books of all time that are no longer available from the Easton Press.

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