James Bready (34 results)

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH COMPLETE NUMBER LINE STARTING WITH NUMBER 1.OVERSIZED HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid. NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY .text unmarked .

Condition: As New. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. (baseball, maryland, baltimore, history ).

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. NO PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME EB 24r.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1979. 25th Anniversary Issue. Pages are all clean tight and bright no marks. Cover is clean and strong and spine is smooth.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. (Baltimore Orioles, Baseball Teams, Sports History) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Baltimore Orioles, Baseball Teams, Sports History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. BASE BALL Hard cover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. over 60 pages of news paper clippings and photos about the teams that played in Baltimore with the Stars the Orioles. And others.

trade paperback. Condition: very good. 2nd edition. NOT an ex library book. Book with green and orange cover. 1/2" paper loss bottom of spine. 96 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and warmly inscribed by author to Oriole Eddie Robinson: "For Eddie Robinson - on the field and off, a fine Baltimorean and a splendid Oriole. With admiration, from one of his thousands of fans. Jim Bready." Covers have moderate rubbing and wear to corners, edges, crown, and heel. Interior clean and unmarked. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 62 pages. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 242pp Illus "The first 100 years" Two corners slightly bumped. Size: Oversized.

Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. Quarto, 242, illus., figures, tables, reading list, index, some soiling to rear DJ. A vivid portrait of the players, managers, ballparks, and games that shaped the history of the national pastime in one of America's oldest baseball towns. Baseball came to Baltimore in 1859, when George F. Beam's Excelsiors played their first games at Flat Rock in Druid Hill Park. In the century that followed, Baltimore had franchises in eight different professional leagues and games were played in nine city parks.…

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Third edition. Quarto in orange wrappers; 104 pages: illustrations; 32 cm.; wrappers show very light signs of wear o/w are mostly clean and free of tears and creases; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight; a gently used copy; out of print. In English. Baltimore Orioles (Baseball team). Near fine copy. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. ix, [1], 242, [4] pages. Illustrations. Suggested Reading. Index. Minor stain inside front cover and on front DJ flap. Minor sticker residue on back of DJ. The author was a A graduate of Haverford College in 1939. He wrote for the Baltimore Evening Sun for over 50 years. He was one of the first members of the Society for American Baseball Research. This work is packed with rare illustrations, colorful anecdotes, and fascinating details many of them skillfully brought to life from the original box scores on preserved newspaper pages and scorecards Baseball in Baltimore tells a story that will captivate baseball fans everywhere. Among the highlights: Baseball in Baltimore is enriched by 150 rare illustrations. They show the Orioles of 1885, in pin-striped splendor; former players Ned Hanlon, Steve Brodie, and others, inspecting the new Municipal Stadium in 1922; Wee Willie Keeler laying down a bunt; the legendary Wilbert Robinson, mask and mitt in hand; the minor-league Orioles raising the flag on Opening Day, 1910; Lefty Grove on the mound; Roy Campanella, a teenaged regular; Babe Ruth tending bar with his father in 1915; and the big parade of 1954, when major league baseball at last returned to Baltimore. The teams were the Marylands and Terrapins, the Drydocks and Pastimes, the Black Sox, the Elite Giants, and, of course, the Orioles. Players had names like Wee Willie Keeler and John McGraw, Babe Ruth and Lefty Grove, Roy Campanella, and Satchell Paige. In Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years, Bready presents a vivid and compelling portrait of the players, the managers, the ballparks, and the games that shaped the history of the national pastime in one of America's oldest baseball towns. It was 1859 when the game of baseball came to Baltimore, as George F. Beam's Excelsiors played their first games at Flat Rock in Druid Hill Park. In the century that followed, Baltimore had franchises in eight different professional leagues and games were played in nine city parks from the Madison Avenue Grounds to Union Park, from old Oriole Park to Bugle Field. Bready also revisits the International League teams of the first half of the twentieth century. He also describes the teams Baltimore fielded in the old Negro leagues the Black Sox and Elite Giants whose patrons, in fairly intimate surroundings, saw some of the finest players the game has ever produced. The players make this book a joy to read.…

Condition: New.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. 112pp Third edition of the fine history of Baltimore baseball. (Loc G85).

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oversized hardback book (66 pages) with decorated endpapers and vintage b/w photographs. Dust jacket front panel photograph by Aubrey Bodine. Dust jacket shows moderate wear with light creases/nicks at edge - back panel has several small areas with loss of color at right edge - small light smudge on title page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Sport2-Middle-Flat) rareviewbooks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 10.25x8.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With 1959 and 1960 supplements laid in. Hardcover, no dj. Light shelfwear to covers with very small fraying to top of spine. Owner's name and "Yea, Orioles!" in ink on ffe. Contents clean and tight otherwise. 62+ pages, i b&w photos and illus.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Edition. 122 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3152.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Lean, pinhole to the front board, and jacket lightly rubbed, with two closed tears, spine slightly faded, and a small circular sticker on the front. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request.; 4to 11" - 13" tall. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Jim Bready, with "Yea Orioles!" 1958, has a Bmore Orioles Sticker on the cover, the spine is a little loose but fully intact, A nice copy. No writing or highlighting. Clean pages, shows very minimal signs of wear from use. Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. Feel free to inquire for photos or more details. --- A pictorial history of one hundred years of baseball in Baltimore, tracing the sport in the city from its nineteenth-century beginnings through the 1950s. The volume gathers the successive Baltimore clubs under one cover, treating the American Association years, the Negro Leagues, and the Major League era, with the Orioles and their predecessors placed alongside teams such as the Marylands, the Terrapins, the Black Sox and the Elite Giants. The interior is given over largely to photographic illustration, with numerous images of players, teams and ballparks drawn from local sources. Issued in orange cloth boards with a brown illustrated dust jacket, the book runs to roughly fifty pages in its 1958 first state; copies were subsequently accompanied by annual supplements bringing the record forward season by season. Printed in Baltimore by Hawke and Robinson. Signed by Author.…