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ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Baseball Maverick: How Sandy
Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and
Revived the Mets by Steve Kettmann
(Apr. 7, hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-0-
8021-1998-8) relates the inside story of
how the former Oakland A’s general man-
ager, who oversaw that team during the
dawn of the moneyball era, turned around
an ailing New York Mets organization.
ATRIA
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and
Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by
Kent Babb (June 16, hardcover, $26, ISBN
978-1-4767-3765-2) presents a deeply
reported biography of retired pro basket-
ball player Allen Iverson, charting his swift
ascent in the sport as well as his troubled
life off the court.
BALLANTINE
Slaying the Tiger: How Golf’s Young
Guns Took Over the Sport by Shane
Ryan (May 26, hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-
0-553-39066-7). Grantland golf writer
Shane Ryan surveys the contemporary pro
golf scene, where talented, ambitious
young players are more eager than ever to
knock the old guard down a few pegs.
BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL
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A History of Baseball in 100 Objects
by Josh Leventhal (Mar. 31, hardcover,
$29.95, ISBN 978-1-57912-991-0)
narrates a history of America’s game as seen
through 100 objects, taking the reader
from the sport’s 18th-century
origins to the age of steroids.
BLOOMSBURY
A Clean Break: My Story
by Christophe Bassons and
Benoît Hopquin, trans. by
Peter Cossins (Mar. 31, hard-
cover, $28, ISBN 978-1-
4729-1035-6) is the autobi-
ography of Bassons, a former
professional cyclist whose
career crumbled after he
became an outspoken critic of doping in
the late 1990s.
CHICAGO REVIEW
Joe Black: More than a Dodger by
Martha Jo Black and Chuck Schoffner
(Feb. 1, hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-
89733-753-3) tells the story
of a pioneering African-American baseball player
who signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952, was
named rookie of the year, and
became the first African-American pitcher to win a
World Series Game.
CROWN
Year of the Dunk: A
Modest Defiance of Gravity
by Asher Price (May 12, hardcover, $26,
ISBN 978-0-8041-3803-1). By learning to
dunk a ball at the age of 34, journalist
Asher Price investigates the limits of his
potential—and our own.
GLOBE PEQUOT/LYONS
100 Years of Who’s Who in Baseball
by Who’s Who in Baseball, Douglas B.
Lyons, foreword by Marty Appel (Feb. 1,
paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4930-1015-
8). This special 100th anniversary edition
of Who’s Who in Baseball provides a retrospective of the annual statistical bible.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
HARCOURT
Billy Martin by Bill Pennington (Apr.
7, hardcover, $30, ISBN 978-0-544-
02209-6) is a sprawling biography of Billy
; Baseball Maverick:
How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
Steve Kettmann. Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 7
; The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions
and Chasing Hemingway’s Ghost in the Last Days of Castro’s Cuba
Brin-Jonathan Butler. Picador, June 9
; The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers
Jon Pessah. Little, Brown, May 5
; The Journey Home: My Life in Pinstripes
Jorge Posada. Morrow/Dey Street, May 5
; Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
Kent Babb. Atria, June 16
; Pedro
Pedro Martinez and Michael Silverman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 5
; The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees,
and Baseball’s Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy
Filip Bondy. Scribner, July 21
; Split Season:
1981—Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike That Saved Baseball
Jeff Katz. St. Martin’s/Dunne, May 19
; Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Charles Leerhsen. Simon & Schuster, May 12
; Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity
Asher Price. Crown, May 12
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