Why Baseball Matters (Why X Matters Series)
By: Susan Jacoby
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A best-selling author and passionate baseball fan takes a tough-minded look at America’s most tradi…
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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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"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. Ball Four
By: Jim Bouton
4.05
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.When first p… read more
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"It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"The older they get, the better they get when they were younger"-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
3. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
By: Michael Dirda
3.50
Format: 92 pages, Hardcover
Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
4. The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1)
By: Franklin W. Dixon , Leslie McFarlane
3.92
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
The first of an enduring series. The Hardy Boys will soon celebrate their 100th anniversary, but… read more
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"There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn’t be a crook at all."-Franklin W. Dixon, The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1)
5. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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6. The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
By: Dennis Lehane
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Timesbest-selling author Dennis Lehane's … read more
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7. Blockade Billy
By: Stephen King
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely.… read more
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8. Speer: Hitler's Architect
By: Martin Kitchen
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi … read more
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- history
9. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
By: Jason Turbow
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straig… read more
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10. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. October 1964
By: David Halberstam
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1989 David Halberstam published "Summer of '49," which became a #1 "New York Times" bestseller. … read more
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15. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
16. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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. 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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19. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
By: Erin Carlson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more
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20. The Good Client (Mitch Turner Legal Thrillers #1)
By: Dan Decker
4.21
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Criminal defense attorney Mitch Turner is awoken in the middle of the night by a message from his n… read more
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21. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks
By: Chris Herring
4.30
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more
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22. The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
By: Jack Curry
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from… read more
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23. They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers
By: Jason Turbow
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of D… read more
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- sports
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- baseball
24. Inside The Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees
By: Bob Klapisch
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with… read more
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25. Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel
By: Samuel W. Mitcham
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Just who was Erwin Rommel? War hero or war criminal? Hitler flunky or man of integrity? Military g… read more
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26. 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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27. Why Baseball Matters (Why X Matters Series)
By: Susan Jacoby
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A best-selling author and passionate baseball fan takes a tough-minded look at America’s most tradi… read more
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28. Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
By: Mark S. Halfon
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
2014 SLA Baseball Caucus Readers’ Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association The D… read more
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29. COVID Curveball: An Inside View of the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers World Championship Season
By: Tim Neverett
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A riveting inside account of the most unforgettable season in Los Angeles Dodgers history, from the… read more
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30. They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
By: Wayne Coffey
4.12
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
"The story of the 1969 Miracle Mets, unlikely world champions against the backdrop of the space rac… read more
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31. The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
By: Robin Reames
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
How rhetoric—the art of persuasion—can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theori… read more
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