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Catch Her Heart (Vancouver Tridents, #3)

Break the Rules (Vancouver Tridents, #1)

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (Catching Feelings, #1)

Kristy and the Walking Disaster: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #16)

Homerun Proposal (Orleans University, #1)

The Third Baseman (The New York Lions #1)

Since We've No Place to Go (Catching Feelings, #0; Sweet as Sugar Maple)

The Incredible Winston Browne: A Novel by “Sean of the South”

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

The Grumpy Player Next Door (Copper Valley Fireballs, #3)

The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America

The Brentwood Boys (The Brentwood Boys, #1-3)

The Yips (All Aces Baseball Sports Romance Series, #1)

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit

Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball

The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

The Virgin Rule Book (Rules of Love, #1)

A Face in the Crowd / The Longest December

Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It

Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing

Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier

Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter

The Virgin Game Plan (Rules of Love, #2)

Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story

Calling it Safe (Denver Bandits Baseball, #3)

The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages

All or Nothing (Denver Bandits Baseball, #2)

First Pitch Swinging (The Boys of Baltimore #1)

It Started With a List (Pacific Grove University, #1)

Baseball Heaven: Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues

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“ God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says. No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and li ...more ”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

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“ I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it’s a shallow love. You want proof?” Cagney didn’t wait for Dr. Victor to say yay or nay. “Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. Can true love be founded upon such shallow acquaintance? I don’t think so. I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it’s a shallow love. You want proof?” Cagney didn’t wait for Dr. Victor to say yay or nay. “Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. Can true love be founded upon such shallow acquaintance? I don’t think so. And at the end, when he thinks she’s dead, he finds no comfort in living out the remainder of his life within the paradigm of his love, at least keeping alive the memory of what they had briefly shared, even if it was no more than illusion, or more accurately, hormonal. “Those of us watching events unfold from the darkness know she merely lies in slumber. But does he seek the reason for her life-like appearance? No. Instead he accuses Death of amorousness, convinced that the ‘lean abhorred monster’ endeavors to keep Juliet in her present state, her cheeks flushed, so that she might cater to his own dissolute desires. But does Romeo hold her in his arms one last time and feel the warmth of her blood still coursing through her veins? Does he pinch her to see if she might awaken? Hold a mirror to her nose to see if her breath fogs it? Once, twice, three times a ‘no.’” Cagney sighed, listened to the leather creak as he shifted his weight in his chair. “No,” he repeated. “His alleged love is so superficial and selfish that he seeks to escape the pain of loss by taking his own life. That’s not love, but obsessive infatuation. Had they wed—Juliet bearing many children, bonding, growing together, the masks of the star-struck teens they once were long ago cast away, basking in the comforting campfire of a love born of a lifetime together, not devoured by the raging forest fire of youth that consumes everything and leaves behind nothing—and she died of natural causes, would Romeo have been so moved to take his own life, or would he have grieved properly, for her loss and not just his own? ...more ”
― J. Conrad Guest, The Cobb Legacy

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