Search Results: Sports (baseball) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: Who's Who In Baseball Magazine, 1986. Book. Very Good. Wraps. Digest. The 71st edition of the publication, featuring the lifetime records of more than 800 players. 240 pages, illustrated. Small nick at top spine, light rubbing..

Fredericton: Hummingbird Ventures, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author & Subject. 1st Edition. The story of a Fredericton, New Brunswick, boy who became a baseball hero in Philadelphia when the Phillies won the 2008 World Series. Signed by both Munn and Stairs, on title page. 231 pages + three-page bibliography and resources section, illustrated. Internally tight and clean w/moderate general wear..

Fredericton: Self-published (printed by Rocket), 2019. Book. New. Illustrated Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Editions.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A massive labour-of-love undertaking covering every statistical nuance of senior baseball in New Brunswick from 1970 through 2019, and including the accomplishments of such former major leaguers as Bill Lee, Matt Stairs, Rheal Cormier, and others. 565 and 443 pages, respectively, with enough player and team statistics to satisfy even the most demented of statheads, illustrated. Each volume signed by Saunders at lower left corner of front cover. Purchased new, unread. These are heavier than "O" juggling the rest of the alphabet while nibblin' on a Ding Dong, so additional postage may be required to get them from here to there,.

Lexington: Stephen Greene Press, 1987. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of baseball's best-ever pitchers -- albeit not one blessed with the strongest intellectual capacity (if verbatim quotes in various newspapers can be believed) -- Roger "The Rocket Man" Clemens favours us with the story of his life and baseball times (at least, up until the end of his wildly successful 1986 season, followed by a World Series appearance that saw the Sox twice come to within a strike of winning it all before disaster struck). Navy boards w/grey cloth backstrip w/red spine lettering, 161 pages (including statistics), illustrated. Some cocking, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, "Xmas 1987" in ink to top edge of front end paper, in price-clipped dust jacket w/rubbing, impressions. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reissues the 1947 A.S. Barnes edition. A title from the publisher's Big League Baseball Library series, "full of anecdotes about Bob's early training (by his father, whom he credits as being the greatest factor in his success), about his first big-league game, his legal troubles with Judge Landis (never before told), his career in the Navy, his marriage, and his record-breaking feats since the war." Decorated grey cloth, 249 pages, illustrated. Bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, lightly dusted edges, Christmas gift inscription to previous owner, wrinkles to rear pastedown (printer's flaw). Dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping to spine ends/corners, 1" tear to left spine edge, 1" tear to top of front fold, some sunning to spine, 3/4" tear/small chip from bottom edge of front panel, short diagonal slit to spine..