21 must-read nonfiction books like Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime by Bruce Markuson

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Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime

By: Bruce Markuson

4.05

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 12 hours and 15 minutes Every time you watch baseball, you're watching more tha…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime by Bruce Markuson , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

1. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales

3.76

Format: 763 pages, Hardcover

In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Frontiersmen by Allan W. Eckert

2. The Frontiersmen

By: Allan W. Eckert

4.46

Format: 626 pages, Paperback

White man's massacre. Red man's revenge. Driven from their homeland, the Indians fought bitterly… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The First World War: A Complete History by Martin  Gilbert

3. The First World War: A Complete History

By: Martin Gilbert

4.16

Format: 680 pages, Paperback

It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot

4. The Lord God Made Them All

By: James Herriot

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Paperback

The Lord God Made Them Allis the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderfuland the fourth … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

5. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

6. 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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7. The Odyssey of Homer (Great Courses, #302)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.04

Format: None pages,

Keats compared discovering Homer to "finding a new planet." What is it in Homer's great works--and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

8. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer

By: David Goldblatt

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

The definitive book about soccer. With a new foreword for the American edition. There may be no cul… read more

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9. The American Revolution (Great Courses, #8514)

By: Allen C. Guelzo

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Audible Audio

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10. All Things Wise and Wonderful

By: James Herriot

4.89

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Readers adored James Herriot's tales o… read more

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11. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

By: Lawrence S. Ritter

5.00

Format: 299 pages,

From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more

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12. Branch Rickey

By: Jimmy Breslin

4.00

Format: None pages,

""Branch Rickey" is all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year,… read more

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13. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

By: Selwyn Raab

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York an… read more

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14. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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15. Personal Memoirs

By: Ulysses S. Grant , Geoffrey Perrett

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant's are lucid, compelling, and brutally honest, a chronicle of triump… read more

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16. But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation

By: Robert Partridge

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

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17. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

By: C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff

18. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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19. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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

20. 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

21. 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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22. 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
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23. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

24. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

By: Matt Siegel

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Every Living Thing  (All Creatures Great and Small, #8) by James Herriot

25. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Ancient Civilizations of North America

By: Edwin Barnhart

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Business Is About to Pick Up!: 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls by Jim Ross

27. Business Is About to Pick Up!: 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls

By: Jim Ross

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Experience 50 years of wrestling history through the iconic voice of Jim Ross. For wrestling fan… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth by Nick  Greene

28. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth

By: Nick Greene

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game crea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime by Bruce Markuson

29. Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime

By: Bruce Markuson

4.05

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 12 hours and 15 minutes Every time you watch baseball, you're watching more tha… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Markuson's Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime book and Bruce Markuson's Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime

  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Modern History (The American Civil War) (The Great Courses) by Gary W. Gallagher

30. Modern History (The American Civil War) (The Great Courses)

By: Gary W. Gallagher

4.45

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Publisher's Summary Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom by Douglas O. Linder

31. Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom

By: Douglas O. Linder

4.11

Format: 12 pages, Audiobook

We like to believe that the founding principle of the United States is liberty. “Give me liberty, o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

19 Best audiobook books like Play Ball!: The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime by Bruce Markuson

Transform Your Habits

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Frontiersmen

Allan W. Eckert

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The First World War: A Complete History

Martin Gilbert

4.16

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Elizabeth Vandiver

4.04

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C.W. Goodyear

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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