11 best-selling history books like Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

Cover of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

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…

If you liked the history plot in Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom M. Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, None

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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  • mathematics
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • baseball
Cover of The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci

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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • leadership

3. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of 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

4. 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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  • baseball
  • american
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

5. 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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Cover of Moneyball by Michael   Lewis

6. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
"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

7. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more

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8. 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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Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

9. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

10. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski

11. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Lindbergh

12. 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
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman

13. Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports

By: Yaron Weitzman

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process -- a bold plan to get to first by becoming the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print) by Tyler Kepner

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

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

Similar categories in Ben Reiter's Astroball: The New Way to Win It All book and Ben Reiter's Astroball: The New Way to Win It All

  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • american
  • history
  • mathematics
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher

16. Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

By: Jeff Fletcher

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The story behind Shohei Ohtani's legendary MVP season as baseball's greatest two-way player--domina… read more

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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing by Andy Martino

17. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution by Ryan O'Hanlon

18. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution

By: Ryan O'Hanlon

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Future Value: The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar by Eric Longenhagen

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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • sports
Cover of The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law

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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  • baseball
  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game by Rob Neyer

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

16 Top audiobook books like Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

Transform Your Habits

The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

Tom Verducci

3.66

Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak

Travis Sawchik

3.75

Transform Your Habits

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

None , Keith Law

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

4.26

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Transform Your Habits

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

Jonathan Wilson

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports

Joshua Robinson

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football

Michael Cox

4.37

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