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Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown: Sixteen Forgotten Members of the Hall of Fame
David L. Fleitz

McFarland & Company, 2004

Dig deeper than Cobb, Wagner, Matty, and Walter Johnson
David Fleitz is a first-rate baseball biographer and researcher. This is an excellent book, first of all for its sixteen meaty, yet concise, biographies of baseball stars from just after the the Civil War to the first decades of the 1900s. It also provides condensed ...
  
  











  



  
George Brett: From Here To Cooperstown
George Brett

Addax, 2002

WOW
Steve Cameron's latest work with George Brett is a must for any fan of the greatest game. For everyone who has thrilled to George's accomplishments and admired his blue-collar, headfirst approach to the game he loves, "From Here to Cooperstown" is a joy indeed. This ...
  
  











  



  
The Clarks of Cooperstown
Nicholas Fox Weber

Knopf, 2007

Don't believe everything you read in the NY Times!
Debby Applegate in the May 20, 2007 NY Times describes this as a "flawed family biography" although she admits it is "fascinating." It is indeed a fascinating family saga which resulted in great legacies to the National Gallery in Washington, DC; the Clark museum in ...
  
  











  



  
The Men That Cooperstown Forgot
Carl E. Watts

PublishAmerica, 2008

This is the history of baseball from a different perspective. It is told in the same way that most histories of the game are related, and none of the events that shaped the game have been excluded, but some that have never been told are offered here for the first time. What is different are the players whose careers and lives are profiled. They ...
  
  











  



  
The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime (Thomas Dunne Books)
Tom Stanton

St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

Another emotional baseball saga from Tom Stanton
Like Tom Stanton's first book about Tiger Stadium's final season, this book combines great baseball stories into a family pilgramage. We learn not only about Cooperstown, but what it means to Stanton and his family. We get to know the Stantons in the same intimate ...
  
  











  



  
Cooperstown Hall of Fame Players (Sports)
Paul Adomites, Dick Johnson, ...

On Track Financial Serv, 2007

cooperstown hall of fame
I bought one of these books for my husband last year he is a true baseball fan--my son-in-law saw it and started to read it buthad to leave to go home and expressed intterest in having it and finishing it--I found it again at Amazon and it is a great book for baseball ...
  
  











  



  
Home Plate: The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown
Brenda Berstler

Savor New York, 2007

Wonderful Cook Book!
A very well thought out collection of recipes from local businesses and vendors in Cooperstown NY and surrounding areas. They make wonderful gifts for people and I have been complimented on every recipe I got from this book! Great cook book. A +
  
  











  



  
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
Alan Taylor

Vintage, 1996

Fascinating
What a pleasure, what a joy to read this book. It's rare that history rises to such a wonderful pitch -- anecdote, analysis, historial context all wrapped up in one fine package. I stumbled onto this book while perusing library shelves while my daughter picked out ...
  
  











  



  
More Ghosts in the Gallery: Another Sixteen Little-Known Greats at Cooperstown
David L. Fleitz

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2007

Another Hit
For all you Baseball fans especially on the history of the game, this is an excellent addition to the first book. If you have gone to the BB Hall of Fame or read the list of the inductee's and wanted to know who some of those great past giants of the game were, this ...
  
  











  



  
Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, And Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball
Frank Russo, Gene Racz

Triumph Books (IL), 2006

Entertaining & Engrossing Book About Players' Demise
Frank Russo developed a terrific website about baseball necrology, and has taken some of his best information into the book, "Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, And Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball." For baseball fans who are in constant pursuit of ...
  
  











  



  
Mohawk Region Waterfall Guide: From the Capital District to Cooperstown & Syracuse: The Mohawak and Schoharie ...
Russell Dunn

Black Dome Press Corp., 2007

With this, his fourth waterfall guidebook, Albany writer Russell Dunn has now written more books about waterfalls than any other author in the world. Mohawk Region Waterfall Guide treats the reader to 79 cool cascades, from the Helderbergs escarpment on the outskirts of Albany and magnificent Cohoes Falls near the confluence of the Mohawk and ...
  
  











  



  
This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s
Larry Moffi

University of Iowa Press, 1996

Baseball players are storytellers, and this book is a collection of stories about the game told by players from the 1950s. These are tales from the dozens of excellent players who loved the game and played it for many seasons, although not accumulating statistics that would enshrine them in the bronze of Cooperstown. Their experiences speak to us ...
  
  











  



  
Nolan Ryan: The Road to Cooperstown
Nolan Ryan

Addax, 1999

A Scrapbook Autobiography
This short (122pages) book commemorates Nolan Ryan's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame by telling the story of his rise to baseball's elite beginning with his boyhood in Alvin, Texas, and ending with his remarks at the induction ceremony many years later. ...
  
  











  



  
Cranks from Cooperstown: 50 Bike Rides in Upstate New York
Dennis Savoie

Tourmaster Publications, 1998

The New Gold Standard for Bicycle Tour Guides
The cover of "Cranks from Cooperstown" proclaims: "Two Bike Books in One! A How-to-Bike Instruction Manual & A Bicycle Tour Guide with 50 Tear-out Cue Sheets and Maps". It is all of that and more. And it appears to have been a "labor of love" for the author, ...
  
  











  



  
The Cooperstown Murders
Milon Henry Levine

Lulu.com, 2006

The Charlie Hustle of Modern Fiction
MH Levine is one of the finest, most original voices in American literature today, as he once again proves with characteristic flair and scathing elan in his latest work, The Cooperstown Murders. Destined for legend or infamy, this author and his work should not be ...
  
  











  



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