A photographic celebration of baseball's most memorable championship games contains colorful anecdotes about the players, games, and teams, including more than 130 photographs, a listing of World Series statistics, and the author's thoughts on the future of baseball.

Sports Illustrated World Series

Sports & Outdoors

Ron Fimrite

Baseball

Random House Value Publishing

The World Series is the most revered tradition in American sports. This lavishly illustrated history of baseball's Fall Classic takes us from its humble beginnings at the turn of the century to the stirring spectacle that has become the World Series today. Provides an entertaining look at baseballs' early days & the colorful collection of characters who pioneered the sport & transformed it into America s pastime. A series of essays & pictorial portfolios recalls the most memorable World Series -- from the first official Series in 1905 through 1991. There is a retrospective on the teams, followed by profiles of the all-time Series great players. More than 130 photos.

The World Series: A History of Baseball's Fall Classic

Diane Pub Co.

Relates the day-to-day goings-on at a well-known San Francisco bar, with its wildly diverse mixture of customers

The Square: The Story of a Saloon

Business & Money

Industries

Taylor Publishing Company

The Oakland Athletics had won the pennant, the San Francisco Giants would win theirs the next day, and the long-awaited first-ever Bay Area World Series was at last a reality. This book, which began as an upbeat collection of photographs about a community's reaction to hosting both sides of the 1989 World Series, came to tell a much larger story.  Before it was all over, the Bay Area would be rocked by a major earthquake that resulted in death and widespread destruction not felt in Northern California since the great quake of 1906. Coming only minutes before Game 3 of the Series was about to begin at Candlestick Park, the 7.1 earthquake jolted Northern California, collapsing portions of interstate 880 in Oakland, knocking down the Bay Bridge roadway, causing a major fire and devastation in San Francisco's Marina District, and heavily damaging Santa Cruz and other South Bay communities. The entire Bay Area was plunged into darkness and chaos for a time. Chaos gave way almost immediately to a sense of purpose as the community coped marvelously, even heroically, and soon rebounded fully. It would be a week and a a half before the World Series could finally resume, before people could divert their attention from the unthinkable events of the previous ten days.  This visual record of a remarkable three-week period in Northern California history, and the longest World Series ever, represents a unique publishing collaboration involving the Giants, the Athletics and Major League Baseball.  More than 250 stunning color photographs by 21 talented Bay Area photographers, serve as a potent and emotional reminder of this unusual time.  Texts by Ron Fimrite of 'Sports Illustrated, 'San Francisco Examiner' columnist Bill Mandel and 'San Francisco Chronicle' sportswriter Bruce Jenkins

Three Weeks in October: Three Weeks in the Life of the Bay Area, the 1989 World Series, and the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Produced in collaboration with the SF Giants, the Oakland Athletics, and MLB

Major League Baseball

Bill Mandel

Bruce Jenkins

The San Francisco Giants

The Oakland Athletics

Woodford Pub

The 1995 World Series book records the action in 300 stunning photos.

A Series for the Fans: The Official Book of the 1995 World Series

From famed sportswriter Ron Fimrite comes the definitive history of the University of California at Berkeley's Football Program - Golden Bears. From their humble beginnings as a student diversion to their 2011 season, the Golden Bears have remained one of the nation's most exhilarating teams. Relive the most stirring and memorable moments in Cal history. Golden Bears is more than just a history of football at the nation's most prestigious public university. Through fascinating profiles of Cal's distinctive personalities, including coaches Andy Smith and Pappy Waldorf, complex players such as Jackie Jensen and Chuck Muncie, and flamboyant University presidents Benjamin Ide Wheeler and Robert Gordon Sproul, Golden Bears traces the political, cultural, and economic factors that have made Berkeley as well know for its activism as its academics.

Golden Bears

Football (American)

MACADAM/CAGE.

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