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Baseball Now! celebrates the latest players of America's pastime. This new edition delivers up-to-date profiles of more than 70 stars of the National and American Leagues, which are complemented by more than 100 full-color action photographs. Fully revised, this edition includes up-to-date coverage of the 2010 regular season, the league playoffs and the World Series. Starring players and winning teams, stragglers and fumblers, all of the highlights, and lowlights, are included. Baseball Now! takes the reader with Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay into the late innings, with Jonathan Papelbon and Mariano Rivera getting the team out of a jam, with Derek Jeter and Chase Utley turning a double play, with Torii Hunter and Ichiro Suzuki making a leaping catch on the warning track, and with Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton hitting a walk-off homer. Baseball Now! is ideal for the fan who wants the stories behind the numbers. Illustrated

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A full recap...of record-setting achievements, dramatic highlights, costly fumbles and the superstar personalities that make America's pastime a summertime delight.--Neil Pond American Profile (05/06/2011)

This gorgeous volume will appeal to fans who crave information on current stars in both leagues.--Vick Mickunas Hamilton Journal-News (04/24/2011)

The book is filled with more than 100 full-color photographs that will appeal to fans of all ages.--Paul M. Murphy American Reference Books Annual 2012 (03/01/2012) This gorgeous volume will appeal to fans who crave information on current stars in both leagues.--Vick Mickunas Hamilton Journal-News (04/24/2011) Get out of the dugout and into the game with the second edition of Baseball Now!, packed with profiles of 70 major-league players, more than 150 color in-action photos, and a full recap of last year's regular season, playoffs and World Series. Author Dan Bortolotti, a sports journalist, spreads the stars over a rundown of record-setting achievements, dramatic highlights, costly fumbles and the superstar personalities that make America's pastime a summertime delight.-- (05/06/2011)

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Dan Bortolotti is a sports journalist and the author of seven other books.

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