Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By: Paul Goldberger
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through…
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1. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
By: Joe Posnanski
4.38
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Baseball 100 “A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a na… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball."-Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
2. The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
By: Jeff Benedict , Armen Keteyian
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE … read more
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- nonfiction
- sports
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"Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisi…"-Jeff Benedict, The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
3. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
By: Jules Tygiel
4.19
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversar… read more
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- american history
- baseball
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4. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
By: Charles Leerhsen
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finally - a fascinating andauthoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in base… read more
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- american history
- baseball
- history
- nonfiction
- sports
5. City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
By: Jerald Podair
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversia… read more
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- american history
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6. The Best Team Money Can Buy
By: Molly Knight
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
News-making, inside revelations about the tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade… read more
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7. The Boys of Summer
By: Roger Kahn
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then we… read more
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8. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
By: Stephen Jay Gould , None
3.56
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more
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9. Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
By: Erik Larson
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on Decem… read more
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10. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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11. Summer of '49
By: David Halberstam
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns … read more
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12. The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season
By: None
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing AT 162 GAMES, it is the sports … read more
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13. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
By: Kevin Baker
4.39
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more
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- baseball
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14. 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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- history
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15. 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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16. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- baseball
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17. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- history
- urban planning
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- urbanism
- cities
18. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-te… read more
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- baseball
- nonfiction
- sports
20. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By: Paul Goldberger
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through… read more
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- american history
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- urbanism
- cities
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21. Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (Star Wars)
By: Delilah S. Dawson
4.34
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
When the Jedi Order falls, an Inquisitor rises. Padawan Iskat Akaris has dedicated her life to t… read more
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"Betrayal,"-Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (Star Wars)
"Mastering yourself is the work of a lifetime."-Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (Star Wars)
"I will not be seduced away from my own success."-Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (Star Wars)
"I’ve told you how I feel. I guess now I’ve proven it."-Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (Star Wars)
22. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
By: Brad Balukjian
4.00
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more
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- baseball
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- sports
23. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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- history
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24. Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
By: John Hodgman
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to … read more
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"And you are forced to say, "No. I have to get back to my family. This is the most convenient time for me to have him poisoned." And you know you are a monster after all, a sick animal that no one has…"-John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
25. The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life
By: Joe Maddon
4.00
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB Manager of the Year Joe Maddon. No one sees … read more
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26. Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing
By: Andy Martino
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A baseball book that reads like a spy novel—a story about cheaters and the cheated that has the po… read more
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27. True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
By: Kostya Kennedy
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year True is a probing, richly-detailed, u… read more
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28. 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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29. Masquerade
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale ex… read more
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30. What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis
By: Melissa DeRosa
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomabl… read more
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31. Baseball Cop
By: Eddie Dominguez
3.12
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Exposing trafficking, theft, fraud, and gambling in the major leagues, a founding member of the MLB… read more
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