20 must-read audiobook books like Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game by Rob Neyer

Cover of Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game by Rob Neyer

Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game

By: Rob Neyer

3.90

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

“Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.” The former ESPN columnist and…

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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 Three More Jack Reacher Novellas: Too Much Time, Small Wars, Not a Drill and Bonus Jack Reacher Stories by Lee Child

2. Three More Jack Reacher Novellas: Too Much Time, Small Wars, Not a Drill and Bonus Jack Reacher Stories

By: Lee Child

3.41

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Lee Child once again demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre with an unbeatable collection o… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks by Zack Hample

3. Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks

By: Zack Hample

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • history
  • sports
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4. Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2)

By: John Lawton

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Brilliantly evoking the intrigue of the Cold War and 1950s London, John Lawtons thrilling sequel to… 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

5. 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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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6. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"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

7. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

By: H.G. Bissinger

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's quintessenti… read more

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8. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

By: Chuck Klosterman

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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12. 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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13. The Long Season

By: Jim Brosnan

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

The classic inside account of a baseball year by a major league pitcher. It begins, appropriately, … read more

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Cover of How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford

14. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

By: Tim Harford

4.12

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

15. 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

16. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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17. 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
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Lindbergh

18. 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 Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin

19. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

By: Luke Epplin

4.48

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

20. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series by Tyler Kepner

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

22. 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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

23. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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24. The Final Game (MCM Investigations #1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

4.40

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Dorothy Graham is dead. This is hugely inconvenient, not least for her. Luckily, she has planned fo… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

25. 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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  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Deccie Must Die (MCM Investigations #2) by Caimh McDonnell

26. Deccie Must Die (MCM Investigations #2)

By: Caimh McDonnell

4.46

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Some people have no appreciation of the fundamentals of the fame game… MCM Investigations are ba… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law

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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media’s Most Inaccurate Predictions―and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them by Fred  Segal

28. Freezing Cold Takes: NFL: Football Media’s Most Inaccurate Predictions―and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them

By: Fred Segal

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sports fans love holding media "experts" accountable for bad predictions. Since 2015, Fred Segal h… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era by Andy Martino

29. The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era

By: Andy Martino

4.42

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

With rare access to the inner sanctum of the New York Yankees, SNY analyst Andy Martino weaves two … read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game by Rob Neyer

30. Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game

By: Rob Neyer

3.90

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

“Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.” The former ESPN columnist and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
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31. Baseball Prospectus 2024

By: Baseball Prospectus

4.50

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

The 2024 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.PLAY BALL! The 29th edition of this indust… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15 Best history books like Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game by Rob Neyer

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4.26

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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

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

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4.16

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