Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's
By: Dale Tafoya
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics was one of the most successful franchises in professional…
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1. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
By: Wayne Coffey , Jim Craig , Ken Morrow
4.21
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrat… read more
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"The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980."-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
"You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than…"-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
2. Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
By: Kent Babb
3.90
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
“This is more than just great sports writing, this is writing at its best. Babb strips away the pub… read more
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3. 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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4. Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
By: Kevin Cook
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The story of six ordinary ballplayers whose paths crossed in the 1947 World Series--and the ways th… read more
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5. Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
By: Marty Appel , Melody Englund
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Since their breakthrough championship season in 1923, when Yankee stadium opened, the New York Yank… read more
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6. Donnie Brasco
By: Richard Woodley , Joseph D. Pistone
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious s… read more
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7. 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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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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By: Paul Goldberger
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through… read more
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12. The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
By: Anne R. Keene
3.60
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in th… read more
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"Pick up any photograph of Ted Williams in 1943 and there’s a good chance you’ll see him seated on a footlocker beside Babe Ruth or perched on a chipped cement wall wearing a jersey stitched with dark…"-Anne R. Keene, The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
13. 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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14. The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
By: Andy McCullough
4.49
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw… read more
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15. 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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16. Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's
By: Dale Tafoya
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics was one of the most successful franchises in professional… read more
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17. Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
By: Greg Larson
4.26
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
"If Clubbie isn't the best piece of baseball literature since Ball Four , it's the leader in the cl… read more
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"It turned out that life only mattered inasmuch as it could be sectioned off on baseball's terms."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"Days during the baseball season don't start with M, T, W, F, or S. They only start with G or O: game day or off day."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"Baseball taught me how to love. The game made sense to me, and spending time with it felt more like an obsessive relationship than a simple want."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"I floated away into that omnipresent timelessness of baseball, where boys with a dream and long-expired Major Leaguers orbit forever on equal planes."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
18. Phillies 1980!: Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Pete Rose, and Philadelphia's First World Series Championship
By: Lew Freedman
4.00
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The… read more
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19. John McGraw
By: Charles C. Alexander
3.95
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
“He ate gunpowder every morning,” complained one umpire, “and washed it down with warm blood.” That… read more
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20. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
By: Ian O'Connor
3.85
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more
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21. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more
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