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Okay, Detroit: Al Kaline or Ty Cobb? You’re up, Cincy, who’s it gonna be: Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, maybe Joe Morgan? How about you, Beantown, what’s your pick: Yaz (Yastrzemski) or perhaps Ted “the Splendid Splinter” Williams? Let’s hear from you, San Francisco: The ‘Say Hey’ Kid, Juan Marichal, or Barry Bonds? New York Yankees? Fugeddaboudit: The Bambino, The Iron Horse, Joltin’ Joe, The Mick, or Yogi? Every Major League town has its favorite sons, but only one from each city gets to be the Hometown Hero. Published in conjunction with Major League Baseball, Hometown Heroes presents the game’s most outstanding players as selected by you, the fans. Beautifully illustrated, this must-have book is a celebration of the best of the best. Millions of voters whittled a list of 150 nominees down to thirty Hometown Heroes, one for each team. The players selected represent the finest ever to wear their team’s uniform. This is the pantheon of baseball legends–Aaron, Ryan, Clemente, Schmidt, Ripken, and Seaver, among others. They are the men whose remarkable legacies were forged the moment they first took to the diamond, and were assured the moment they hung up their cleats to assume a position among the all-time greats. All 150 finalists are profiled here–career highlights, statistics, amazing photographs, fabulous tidbits, and other features. For more than a century, baseball fans have debated endlessly which players have earned the right to be called the finest of the sport. Hometown Heroes pays tribute to the cream of the crop. Major League Baseball Publishing is a full-service publishing arm of Major League Baseball that produces and licenses a variety of high-quality baseball books, souvenir programs, magazines, and children’s books. This branch of Major League Baseball Properties includes an in-house stock-photo agency. Each publication offers the highest standards for the oldest, and, most popular professional sports entity in the world. Tim Kurkjian is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, a reporter/analyst who regularly appears on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight television show, and a frequent contributor to espn.com. He has authored two books and has been exerted in numerous others. Kurkjian has covered baseball for more than a quarter of a century, and has held writing positions with such prestigious publications as Sports Illustrated, Baltimore Sun, and The Dallas Morning News.

Hometown Heroes: The Most Outstanding Players in Baseball History, Club by Club

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Celebrate the 2016 World Series champions with the only official publication licensed by Major League Baseball! When the Cubs clinched the final out of the 2016 World Series, the city collectively exhaled; the wait was finally over. Chicago’s National League franchise ended its 108-year title drought this season, winning a Major League–best 103 games and leading the NL Central wire to wire. All five of the Cubs’ starting pitchers posted double-digits in wins, while Kyle Hendricks led the Majors in ERA and WHIP with Jon Lester not far behind. And a young core bolstered by Kris Bryant, Addison Russell, Javier Baez and countless other stars who had led the club to the playoffs in back-to-back seasons brought the world title to Wrigleyville for the first time since 1908, ushering in a new era of prosperity. 2016 World Series Champions takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in partnership with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of the World Series Champion's run through the annual Fall Classic, but also a history of the World Series. With more than 200 incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2016 MLB season. It's all here -- the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks, and a season of unforgettable moments.

2016 World Series Champions: Chicago Cubs

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Heading into the 2011 season's final month, the St. Louis Cardinals had no chance to make the postseason - at least, that's what logic indicated. But by the end of October, they were hoisting the World Series trophy, celebrating the franchise's 11th world championship and its second in six years. All it took was a historic comeback in September, in which the Redbirds rallied from an 8.5-game deficit in the Wild Card race, and an incredible run through the postseason to do it. On the backs of Cardinals mainstays Albert Pujols and Chris Carpenter, as well as more recent arrivals like Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, St. Louis took out the heavily favored Phillies in the National League Division Series before outclassing the division-rival Brewers and overmatching the American League champion Texas Rangers. The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals: Celebrating the 2011 World Series Champions commemorates the Cardinals' thrilling 2011 season, detailing their rise to the top, including a recap of every postseason game they played, regular-season highlights, team history, insider stories, stats and more than 200 photographs. As the only official Major League Baseball World Series championship book, this keepsake is a must-have for any fan of the Cardinals or baseball.

The Year of the St. Louis Cardinals: Celebrating the 2011 World Series Champions

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Published in conjunction with Major League Baseball®, the official WORLD SERIES® Championship Recap Book, will be the most detailed and spectacular book to celebrate this season's World Series and the men that starred in it! The 2012 WORLD SERIES will be captured in stunning detail in the Official MLB WORLD SERIES Championship Recap Book. The first of its kind, MLB is excited to have its very own Championship book published this year to celebrate this year's Fall Classic (TM) and its world champions. With their unprecedented level of access to the games, the players, the clubs and their unique stories and images, MLB's publishing division - the same group that produces the Official World Series Program - is perfectly poised to write and produce this celebratory book. With access to an incredible library of photographs and talented baseball writers and editors, the 2012 WORLD SERIES Championship Recap Book will provide fans with all the excitement of the WORLD SERIES, along with all the information, the stories and the stats that were part of it. This book will truly be a spectacular tribute to this season's champions and become the must-have collectible for all fans of the game. Because of MLB's unlimited access, this collectible championship recap book will also contain a look back to the entire 2012 MLB season and the sport's most dynamic players. With MLB at the helm, the design, the images and the content of the book will be spectacular and unique and offer a tribute to the game like no other.

Year of the San Francisco Giants: 2012 World Series Champions

Since the first pitch was thrown, MLB has tracked the performance of every team and player, documented every hit and measured every home run. And while some plays are part of the everyday game, there are moments in baseball when a player's performance reaches a new level of greatness and new records are made. The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records catalogs the game's most remarkable achievements, as well as some of the less traditional and quirky stats that all play a part in the game. MLB's team of in-house writers, researchers and historians have scoured the history of the game and written the most accurate, complete and definitive record of baseball stats and achievements. Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records documents the absolute best of the best and packs each achievement into this lavishly illustrated book where fans will be treated to never-before-seen photographs of their favourite players. Double-page spreads will show Henderson racing to second base to claim the stolen base record, while another full color spread celebrates Bond's crushing hit that set a new threshold for most home-runs. All the records are here, each with an account of events and spectacular photographs that make this truly the most spectacular baseball book ever published.

The Major League Baseball Ultimate Book of Records: An Official MLB Publication

2013 World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of Boston’s run through the annual Fall Classic, but also a history of the World Series. With more than a hundred incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2013 MLB season. It's all here--the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks and a season of unforgettable moments.

2013 World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox

2014 World Series Champions: San Francisco Giants takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of committed and knowledgeable baseball experts, this commemorative keepsake offers San Francisco fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of the Giants's run through the annual Fall Classic, but also a history of the World Series. With more than a hundred incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2014 MLB season. It's all here -- the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks and a season of unforgettable moments

2014 World Series Champions: San Francisco Giants

Celebrate the Houston Astros 2017 World Series Championship with the official publication from Major League Baseball! 2017 World Series Champions: Houston Astros takes fans out to the ball game and right down to the field-level action at Minute Maid Park and beyond. Published in conjunction with MLB and researched and written by their own in-house team of dedicated baseball experts, this commemorative book offers baseball fans not only a detailed game-by-game recap of Houston's run to a World Series title, but also a history of the Astros franchise and how this championship team was assembled. With more than 200 incredible photographs, exclusive Q&amp;A's with stars like George Springer and Carlos Correa, regular season highlights from players like Jose Altuve, and postseason statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates all the unforgettable moments of this championship run. As fans learned after comebacks in both the ALCS and in Games 2 and 5 of the World Series, the Astros truly are Houston Strong.

2017 World Series Champions: Houston Astros

With more than a hundred incredible photographs, descriptive game analysis, profiles of every member of the team, statistics and box scores, this official MLB publication celebrates the most memorable and magical highlights from the entire 2015 MLB season. It's all here-the biggest hits, the unbelievable throws, the most talked-about trades, great plays, amazing comebacks and a season of unforgettable moments.

2015 World Series Champions: New York Mets

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