13 best-selling baseball books like A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball by Anthony Castrovince

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A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball

By: Anthony Castrovince

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide wi…

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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

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2. Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

3.81

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that… read more

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"When my time is up,"

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

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3. Vader Down

By: Salvador Larroca , Kieron Gillen , Jason Aaron , Mike Deodato

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two of the biggest titles in comics collide in the first crossover of the new Marvel age of STAR WA… read more

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4. Skywalker Strikes (Star Wars #1)

By: John Cassaday , Jason Aaron , Laura Martin

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The greatest space adventure of all returns to Marvel! Luke Skywalker and the ragtag rebel band op… read more

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5. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

By: Nate Silver

3.75

Format: None pages,

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more

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6. 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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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

7. 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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8. Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine

By: None , Charles Soule

4.25

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Picking up where Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith ends, follow Darth Vader as he receives… read more

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"I have no limits."

-None, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine

"The Force makes all things light, my young friend."

-None, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine

"You of all people know better than to dwell on what could have been."

-None, Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 1: Imperial Machine

9. The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Star Wars: The Living Force

By: John Jackson Miller

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a gal… read more

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15. 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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16. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

17. 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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18. How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

By: Thomas W. Gilbert

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating, true, story of baseball’s amateur origins. “Explores the conditions and factors th… read more

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19. 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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20. A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball

By: Anthony Castrovince

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide wi… read more

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21. The Baseball Book of Why

By: John McCollister

3.48

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Why do we sometimes refer to a left-handed pitcher as a “southpaw?” Why are major league pitchers n… read more

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16 Top nonfiction books like A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball by Anthony Castrovince

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

Joe Posnanski

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Decision Points

George W. Bush

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver

3.75

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

Travis Sawchik

3.75

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Transform Your Habits

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

Joe Posnanski

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Good Rat

Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s

Dan Epstein

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

4.02

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