9 Top history books like Baseball: A History of America's Game by Benjamin G. Rader

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Baseball: A History of America's Game

By: Benjamin G. Rader

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A history of baseball in America provides in a second edition the author's commentary on the sport …

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1. The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything

By: Tony Payne , Colin Marshall

4.22

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

All Christian ministry is a mixture of trellis and vine.There is vine work: the prayerful preaching… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

By: Jules Tygiel

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversar… read more

Similar categories in Jules Tygiel's Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy book and Benjamin G. Rader's Baseball: A History of America's Game

  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • history
  • sports
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3. The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)

By: Mary Stewart

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the wo… read more

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4. The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)

By: Mary Stewart

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted b… read more

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5. The Celebrant

By: Eric Rolfe Greenberg

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Har… read more

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  • baseball
  • sports
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6. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

By: Colin Woodard

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. 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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9. 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

10. The Betrayal: How the 1919 Black Sox Scandal Changed Baseball

By: Charles Fountain

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless J… read more

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11. The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

By: Mary Stewart

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time … read more

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12. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

By: Erik Larson

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hit… read more

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13. October 1964

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1989 David Halberstam published "Summer of '49," which became a #1 "New York Times" bestseller. … read more

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14. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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15. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)

By: Lloyd Alexander

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was a… read more

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16. The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Begin your journey into Middle-earth. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime … read more

Similar categories in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4) book and Benjamin G. Rader's Baseball: A History of America's Game

  • audiobook
"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"Never is too long a word even for me..."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

"What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

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17. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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18. Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

By: Aaron Renn

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

By: Max Hastings

4.30

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"

-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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20. 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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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21. Baseball: A History of America's Game

By: Benjamin G. Rader

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A history of baseball in America provides in a second edition the author's commentary on the sport … read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook

7 Top audiobook books like Baseball: A History of America's Game by Benjamin G. Rader

Transform Your Habits

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

None , Keith Law

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Return of the King (Middle Earth, #4)

J.R.R. Tolkien

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

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10 must-read history books like Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture by Aaron Renn

Transform Your Habits

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Andrew Wilson

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

Aaron Renn

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to Respond

Alisa Childers

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality

Glen Scrivener

4.50

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