Bless You Boys: Diary of the Detroit Tigers' 1984 Season by Sparky Anderson - 1984

Louisville, KY: Hillerich & Bradsby , 1938. One Sheet, Folded to make 4 pages, 8 1/2 " x 11". Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good Plus, small tear at center crease. Two holes punched for a ring binder. Features photos of professional players Zeke Bonura and Buddy York, and the roster of 30 player's models includes Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott, Babe Ruth, Paul Waner, and Rogers Hornsby, among others. Center 2 pages feature "Some of the Many Steps in Making Baseball Bats". . First Edition. One Sheet, Folded. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8 1/2 " x 11".

New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc. Publisher, 1941. Dated in pencil front cover July 24. SIGNED in pencil front cover by Yankess 1st baseman John Sturm, and SIGNED in pencil rear cover by Cleveland Indians center fielder Roy "Stormy" Weatherly. Original printed stapled wrappers with 10 pp. ads and 2 pp. score card. Score card marked in pencil through 2nd inning. Very Good, upper corner rear cover soiled. John Sturm's big league baseball career lasted only one season, with the World Series-winning New York Yankees. He entered the Yankees starting lineup May 15, the same day Joe DiMaggio began his 56 game hitting streak, and his steady play at 1st and as lead-off batter helped to steady a struggling Yankees team. Later that year he became the first married player to enter military service for WWII. Due to an injury suffered during his service and later injuries playing ball, he never made back into another big league game. Roy Weatherly played 10 seasons in the bigs, with Cleveland, the… Read More

New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc. Publisher, 1944. Original printed stapled wrappers with 8 pp. ads and 2 pp. score card, the score card unmarked. SIGNED in pencil rear cover by Boston Braves infielder Max Macon, and SIGNED on a torn sheet of ruled paper laid in by Braves center fielder Tommy Holmes. Very Good, the WWII era paper uniformly browned, small edge tear, light soiling rear cover. Tommy Holmes was one of the most popular performers in Boston baseball history, a .302 lifetime hitter who set a then-National League record with a 37-game hitting streak in 1945. Max Macon spent most of his big league career as a pitcher, but in 1944 was the Braves starting first baseman for the first three months of the season. Since he was not listed as the starter on the score card for this game, that makes this games card an August or September 1944 game. . SIGNED. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Author, 1942. A young boy's scrapbook of the 1942 baseball season, containing pages of meticulous handwritten box scores, letters, observations,statistics, etc, along with newspaper clippings and the Oct. 8, 1942 Sporting News newspaper. A unique album, the work of a statitics-obsessed and rabid Brooklyn Dodgers young fan. . Binder. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Avon Books, 1983 This book almost 40 years old and appears to be unread. There is a date or code (3/11/13) written on the first prelim page and pages are toned but it is otherwise near new. Stated first printing with full number line. Robert Whiting provides "a look at a very different culture through America's favorite sport -- Baseball mania in today's Japan" [from the cover]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs.

New York, William Morrow & Co., 1983, hardcover, pp.vii-150, Good+ in Good dustjacket, Signed by the author on the title page "Merry Christmas-Larry Ritter". Straight, tight and clean, wear to bottom corners, tiny ink mark to bottom edge of text block. Dustjacket, edge nicks, short edge tears with some crumple, chips to spine ends, in new Brodart sleeve. The fundamentals of the game of baseball and an introduction to the great players of the past by the author of 'The Glory of Their Times'. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Introduction by Ted Williams. Index appended. ISBN 9780688017248

Louisville, KY: Hillerich & Bradsby , 1938. One Sheet, Folded to make 4 pages, 8 1/2 " x 11". Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good Plus, small tear at center crease. Two holes punched for a ring binder. Features photos of professional players Zeke Bonura and Buddy York, and the roster of 30 player's models includes Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott, Babe Ruth, Paul Waner, and Rogers Hornsby, among others. Center 2 pages feature "Some of the Many Steps in Making Baseball Bats". . First Edition. One Sheet, Folded. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 8 1/2 " x 11".

New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc. Publisher, 1941. Dated in pencil front cover July 24. SIGNED in pencil front cover by Yankess 1st baseman John Sturm, and SIGNED in pencil rear cover by Cleveland Indians center fielder Roy "Stormy" Weatherly. Original printed stapled wrappers with 10 pp. ads and 2 pp. score card. Score card marked in pencil through 2nd inning. Very Good, upper corner rear cover soiled. John Sturm's big league baseball career lasted only one season, with the World Series-winning New York Yankees. He entered the Yankees starting lineup May 15, the same day Joe DiMaggio began his 56 game hitting streak, and his steady play at 1st and as lead-off batter helped to steady a struggling Yankees team. Later that year he became the first married player to enter military service for WWII. Due to an injury suffered during his service and later injuries playing ball, he never made back into another big league game. Roy Weatherly played 10 seasons in the bigs, with Cleveland, the… Read More

New York: Harry M. Stevens, Inc. Publisher, 1944. Original printed stapled wrappers with 8 pp. ads and 2 pp. score card, the score card unmarked. SIGNED in pencil rear cover by Boston Braves infielder Max Macon, and SIGNED on a torn sheet of ruled paper laid in by Braves center fielder Tommy Holmes. Very Good, the WWII era paper uniformly browned, small edge tear, light soiling rear cover. Tommy Holmes was one of the most popular performers in Boston baseball history, a .302 lifetime hitter who set a then-National League record with a 37-game hitting streak in 1945. Max Macon spent most of his big league career as a pitcher, but in 1944 was the Braves starting first baseman for the first three months of the season. Since he was not listed as the starter on the score card for this game, that makes this games card an August or September 1944 game. . SIGNED. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Author, 1942. A young boy's scrapbook of the 1942 baseball season, containing pages of meticulous handwritten box scores, letters, observations,statistics, etc, along with newspaper clippings and the Oct. 8, 1942 Sporting News newspaper. A unique album, the work of a statitics-obsessed and rabid Brooklyn Dodgers young fan. . Binder. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.