Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
By: Eric Nusbaum
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big le…
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1. Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
By: José Canseco
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times Bestseller In Juiced , Jose Canseco , one of the most electrifying and cont… read more
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"Sure, some people are afraid of steroids. Some people were afraid of fire, too. Afraid of electricity, or of splitting the atom. But I know that the body I have now is far superior to the one I was b…"-José Canseco, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
"Sure I tampered with my body chemistry -- and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they'll be able to accom…"-José Canseco, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
2. Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
No player in the history of baseball has left such an indelible mark on the game as San Francisco G… read more
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3. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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4. 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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5. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
By: James L. Swanson
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more
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6. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By: Mike Davis
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … 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. 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 Breaks of the Game
By: David Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more
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10. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
By: Lawrence S. Ritter
5.00
Format: 299 pages,
From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more
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11. 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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12. Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
By: Phil Lapsley
3.49
Format: None pages,
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technoph… read more
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13. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
By: Jack McCallum
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
They were the Beatles of basketball, the MercurySeven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports … read more
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14. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
By: None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more
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15. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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16. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By: Mike Jay
3.94
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
22. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
23. Shanghailanders
By: Juli Min
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more
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24. Hollywood: The Oral History
By: Jeanine Basinger
4.04
Format: 768 pages, Paperback
The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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25. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
By: Howard Bryant
4.23
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more
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26. Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
By: Eric Nusbaum
4.15
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big le… read more
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27. The Time Has Come
By: Will Leitch
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Lindburgh’s Pharmacy is an Athens, Georgia, institution—the type of beloved mom and pop shop that o… 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. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By: Winfred Rembert
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movem… read more
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30. The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
By: Wright Thompson
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the b… read more
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31. How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink
By: Pedro Moura
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty years—but help… read more
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