Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
By: George F. Will
3.50
Format: 192 pages,
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will-…
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1. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
By: Bill James
4.29
Format: 1012 pages, Paperback
When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immedia… read more
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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. Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
By: Cait Murphy
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest—these days, the… read more
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4. The Natural
By: Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker
4.12
Format: None pages,
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin B… read more
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5. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
By: Jane Leavy
4.15
Format: None pages,
The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more
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6. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
By: George F. Will
3.50
Format: 192 pages,
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will-… read more
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7. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
By: Robert W. Creamer , Dick Schaap
4.31
Format: None pages,
Babe Ruth moved beyond the baselines and outfield fences of the baseball stadiums that brought him … read more
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8. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada , Lance Williams
3.42
Format: None pages,
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9. The Bad Guys Won!
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. 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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12. 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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14. Shoeless Joe
By: W.P. Kinsella
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more
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"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
15. War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
By: Herman Wouk
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of… read more
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17. Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
By: Jonah Keri
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, a… read more
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18. 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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19. Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
By: Richard Ben Cramer
3.94
Format: 336 pages,
Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good. In the hard-knuckl… read more
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20. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By: Buzz Bissinger
3.81
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more
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21. 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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