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Literature and Text Resources
"[Ed]Ricks finally quit in 1979. He had some arm problems, but that wasn't really it. He was tired more than anything else. Tired of being so close for so long and not making it. 'I decided to give it up because it seemed like I wasn't going anywhere,' he said....Then he heard about the senior league. In some ways he was like all the others who came back. But for him it was a little different. Ricks wasn't here to relive the glory of the old days. What glory? Ricks was here to give it one more try."
-- from Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior League
by David Whitford, 225
- Society for American Baseball Research, Research in Baseball Index, An Electronic Index to Baseball Literature
- Children's Literature Theme Reviews: Baseball
- Guide to Baseball Fiction: Children's Books
- The Baseball Encyclopedia
8th ed. New York, New York:Macmillan Publishing Company, 199 . Also in Digital Format - CD-ROMs - 1996 ed.
- Burns, Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward. Baseball: An Illustrated History
New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
- Johnson, Daniel E. Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook
Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1999.
- McCabe, Neal and Constance McCabe. Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon
New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 1993.
- Reidenbaugh, Lowell. Baseball's Hall of Fame: Cooperstown: Where the Legends Live Forever
rev. and updated ed. New York, New York: Random House, 1997.
- McBride, Joseph. High and Inside: The Complete Guide to Baseball Slang
New York, New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1980.
- Nemec, David. The Rules of Baseball
New York, New York: Lyons & Buford Publishers, 1994.
- Thorn, John and Pete Palmer. Total Baseball
6th ed. New York, New York: Total sports, 1999.
- Toropov, Brandon. 50 Biggest Baseball Myths
Seacaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1997.
- Whitford, David. Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior Leagues
New York, New York: Edward Burlingame Books, 1991.
- Whiteford, Mike. How To Talk Baseball
rev.ed. New York, New York: Dembner Books, 1987. - The Baseball Encyclopedia
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