6 Top memoir books like After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky

Cover of After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky

After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

By: Art Shamsky

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The inside account of an iconic team in baseball the 1969 New York Mets—a consistently last-place …

If you liked the memoir plot in After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees by Peter Golenbock, Sparky Lyle

1. The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees

By: Peter Golenbock , Sparky Lyle

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After bei… read more

Similar categories in Peter Golenbock's The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • baseball
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets by Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman, Keith Hernandez

3. Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets

By: Mookie Wilson , Erik Sherman , Keith Hernandez

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They said it was the ?Curse of the Bambino.? They said ?the bad guys won.? Now one of baseball?s al… read more

Similar categories in Mookie Wilson's Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • baseball
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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4. Straight Man

By: Richard Russo

3.88

Format: 136 pages,

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hila… read more

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Cover of Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers by Mike Shropshire

5. Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers

By: Mike Shropshire

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

"Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, 'If Rich Billings is the starting catch… read more

Similar categories in Mike Shropshire's Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry

6. Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game

By: Dan Barry

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Bottom of the 33rdis chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is ne… read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

7. 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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8. Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson

By: None

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the 2014 Casey Award! Selected by the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the 2014 auth… 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 Last Innocents: The Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1960's

By: Michael Leahy

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 196… read more

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11. The Run of His Life : The People versus O.J. Simpson

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

A behind-the-scenes look at the crime of the century and the legal proceedings that followed sheds … read more

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12. The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy

By: Filip Bondy

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An award-winning veteran sportswriter who personally covered the Pine Tar Game looks back and explo… read more

Similar categories in Filip Bondy's The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

13. Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau

By: Dan Kurzman

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the award-winning author of Fatal Voyage comes the first full account of one of World War II's… read more

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14. Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever

By: Tim Wendel

4.29

Format: 248 pages,

The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season--when the game was played to perfection even as… read more

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Cover of Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports by Guy Lawson

15. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports

By: Guy Lawson

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more

Similar categories in Guy Lawson's Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

16. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

17. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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

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

19. 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

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of The Maze (John Corey, #8) by Nelson DeMille

20. The Maze (John Corey, #8)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.76

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a “genuinely thrilling” ( The New … read more

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Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

21. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

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

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

Similar categories in David Zucker's Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23) by Daniel Silva

23. The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)

By: Daniel Silva

4.38

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thi… read more

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Cover of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens

24. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

By: Dana Stevens

4.19

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more

Similar categories in Dana Stevens's Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life by Bill Madden

25. Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life

By: Bill Madden

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, “must-read” (Keith Hernandez) biography of Hall of Fame pitching legend Tom Seave… read more

Similar categories in Bill Madden's Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink by Kevin Cook

26. Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink

By: Kevin Cook

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phill… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Cook's Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin' New York Mets by Ed Kranepool

27. The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin' New York Mets

By: Ed Kranepool

3.89

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

No origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool. The lefty first baseman know… read more

Similar categories in Ed Kranepool's The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin' New York Mets book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • sports
Cover of The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

28. The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

By: Michael MacCambridge

4.25

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of  The Right Call A captivating chr… read more

Similar categories in Michael MacCambridge's The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky

29. After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

By: Art Shamsky

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The inside account of an iconic team in baseball the 1969 New York Mets—a consistently last-place … read more

Similar categories in Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets book and Art Shamsky's After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets

  • baseball
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Spook Street (Slough House, #4) by Mick Herron

30. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

Cover of The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier

31. The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams

By: Steve Currier

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Hockey has had its share of bizarre tales over the years, but none compares to the fascinating stor… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

17 Top nonfiction books like After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets by Art Shamsky

Transform Your Habits

The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees

Peter Golenbock , Sparky Lyle

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson

Kent Babb

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets

Mookie Wilson , Erik Sherman , Keith Hernandez

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers

Mike Shropshire

3.89

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Transform Your Habits

Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

John Le Carré

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

BOX 88 (BOX 88, #1)

Charles Cumming

4.07

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