The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
By: Tom M. Tango , Mitchel Lichtman , None
4.08
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James… read more
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2. The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
By: Tom Verducci
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustratedsenior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst T… read more
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3. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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4. Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
By: Travis Sawchik
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller After twenty consecutive losing seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, team … read more
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5. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball
By: None , Keith Law
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's i… read more
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6. Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order )
By: None
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball's famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat t… read more
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7. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
8. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
By: Jonathan Mahler
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original mi… read more
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9. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
By: Jeff Passan
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitcher… read more
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10. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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11. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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12. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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13. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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14. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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15. Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
By: Ben Reiter
4.20
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would wi… read more
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16. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
By: Andy McCullough
4.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more
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17. The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
By: Russell A. Carleton
4.10
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball i… read more
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18. Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the next major work of baseball narrative… read more
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19. Future Value: The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar
By: Eric Longenhagen
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
How to watch baseball and see the future For the modern major league team, player evaluation is a c… read more
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20. The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
By: Keith Law
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN baseball writer and author of the acclaimed Smart … read more
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21. Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
By: Rob Neyer
3.90
Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition
“Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.” The former ESPN columnist and… read more
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