13 must-read history books like So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon

Cover of So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon

So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports

By: Devin Gordon

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the …

If you liked the history plot in So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Ball Four by Jim Bouton

1. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam

2. The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship

By: David Halberstam

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • history
  • sports

3. The Jordan Rules

By: None , None

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jor… read more

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy

By: Jane Leavy

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

"The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifull… read more

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7. Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

By: Jimmy Breslin , Bill Veeck

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Me… read more

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Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

8. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

9. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski

10. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • collections
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  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

11. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
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Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

12. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

13. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Cover of The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Lindbergh

14. 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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl by Rebecca Quin

15. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

By: Rebecca Quin

4.51

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

Cover of There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE by Brian Gewirtz

16. There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE

By: Brian Gewirtz

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz brings readers behind the scenes for an unprecedented look at … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman

17. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

18. 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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  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

19. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon

20. So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports

By: Devin Gordon

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the … read more

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  • baseball
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  • collections
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Baseball: The Movie by Noah Gittell

21. Baseball: The Movie

By: Noah Gittell

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and enter… read more

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15 Best audiobook books like So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports by Devin Gordon

Transform Your Habits

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

Evan Drellich

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Baseball 100

Joe Posnanski

4.74

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18 must-read audiobook books like Baseball: The Movie by Noah Gittell

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

David Zucker

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer

4.06

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