Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. 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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2. 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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3. Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
By: Les Standiford
4.15
Format: 32 pages, ebook
The author of Last Train to Paradisetells the story of the largest public water project ever create… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in U.S. History
By: Peter McIndoe
3.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history―and how to fight back. Have you ever see… read more
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12. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
13. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East
By: Uri Kaufman
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more
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14. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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15. The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
By: Tyler Kepner
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly ent… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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20. LeBron
By: Jeff Benedict
4.40
Format: None pages, Audiobook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “defi… read more
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21. 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid
By: Willie Mays
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and… read more
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22. 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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23. The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground
By: Justus Rosenberg
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and advent… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
By: Craig Whitlock
4.39
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more
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"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
29. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
By: Jesselyn Cook
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more
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30. The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos
By: Armen Keteyian
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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31. The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman
By: Don Zminda
3.97
Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition
Harry Caray is one of the most famous and beloved sports broadcasters of all time, with a career th… read more
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