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Babe Ruth: Launching The Legend
by Jim Reisler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill 2004
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As America's pasttime was still reeling from the Black Sox scandal of 1919, Red Sox player Babe Ruth was traded to the New York Yankees for $125,000. Who could have known that this business transaction would turn the 1920 season into a magical one and... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Bad Guys Won: A Season Of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-Chasing, And Championship Baseball With Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, And The Rest Of The 1986 Mets, The Rowdiest Team To Put On A New York Uniform, And Maybe The Best
by Jeff Pearlman
Publisher: HarperCollins 2004
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Baseball's last great wild bunch--the world champion 1986 Mets--is immortalized in this rollicking story of the arrogant, insane, rock-and-roll, party-all-night team.
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Cityplay
by Amanda Dargan, Steve Zeitlin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press 1990
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A paean to play by a husband-and-wife team of folklorists, this hodgepodge of facts, quotes, scholarship and stories traces New York City frolics from the Triassic period (origin of the brownstone) through the introduction of elevators, electric street... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Coney Island: Lost and Found
by Charles Denson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press 2002
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Growing up on Coney Island in the ’50s and ’60s, Charles Denson experienced legendary amusements and attractions like the Cyclone and Thunderbolt roller coasters, the Parachute Jump, and Steeplechase Park. In CONEY ISLAND: LOST AND FOUND, Denson... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Duke Of Flatbush
by Duke Snider
Publisher: Citadel Press 2002
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One of the "Boys of Summer," Snider joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the same year as Jackie Robinson, relocated with the team to Los Angeles, then played with the Mets and the San Francisco Giants in the twilight of his career. With coauthor Gilbert, a... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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When Brooklyn was the world
by Wilensky, Elliot
Publisher: Harmony 1986
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Around the corner. The next block. Across the At the end of the line. Borough Park. Gowanus. Flatbush. Canarsie. Ridgewood. Greenpoint. Brownsville. Bay Ridge. Bensonhurst. City Line. What was the place called Brooklyn really like back then... when... > Read Reviews | Write a Review
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
by D. Graham Burnett
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740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
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A House On The Heights
by Truman Capote
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Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
by Julie Miller
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, The Birth of the "It" Girl and The Crime of the Century.
by Paula Uruburu
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Fat of the Land: The Garbage Behind New York-The Last Two Hundred Years
by Benjamin Miller
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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners during the American Revolution
by Edwin G. Burrows
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Gastropolis: Food and New York City
by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, eds.
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Gravesend, Brooklyn: Then and Now
by Joseph Ditta
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Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
by Stefan M. Bradley
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Here is New York
by E. B. White
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Life on the Lower East Side: Photographs by Rebecca Lepkoff, 1937-1950
by Rebecca Lepkoff, Suzanne Wasserman, Peter Dans
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Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
by Samuel Zipp
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Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams
by Mark Kingwell
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New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
by Edward Sibley Barnard
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On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
by Marshall Berman
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On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC
by Janet Braun-Reinitz and Jane Weissman
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The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction
by Max Page
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