12 Best biography books like Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season by Dan Joseph

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Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season

By: Dan Joseph

4.43

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Last Ride of the Iron Horse tells the story of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he …

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Cover of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis

1. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

By: Daniel Gordis

4.31

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs by Dirk Hayhurst

2. Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs

By: Dirk Hayhurst

4.02

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

"Dirk Hayhurst writes about baseball in a unique way. Observant, insightful, human, and hilarious."… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
"You don't get married for yourself, you get married because you're better together than separate."

-Dirk Hayhurst, Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs

Cover of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy

3. Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

By: Cait Murphy

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance's boast is manifest—these days, the… read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

4. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

By: Jane Leavy

4.15

Format: None pages,

The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age by Robert Weintraub

5. The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

By: Robert Weintraub

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The triumphant story of baseball and America after World War II In 1945 Major League Baseball had b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner

6. Washington: The Indispensable Man

By: James Thomas Flexner

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas F… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss

7. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

By: David Maraniss

4.33

Format: None pages,

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

8. The Pelican Brief

By: John Grisham

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D… read more

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9. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Gerald Blaine

3.65

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The New York Timesbestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and… read more

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10. Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

By: None

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once … read more

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11. The Client

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...El… read more

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12. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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13. 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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14. The Reckoning

By: David Halberstam

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"In just 25 years we have gone from the American century to the American crisis," Felix Rohatyn, fi… read more

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15. 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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16. Wait Till Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.07

Format: None pages,

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17. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

By: Jonathan Eig

4.24

Format: 96 pages,

Every baseball fan is familiar with Lou Gehrig. He was the Iron Horse, the New York Yankee who neve… read more

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Cover of Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II by Matthew  Black

18. Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II

By: Matthew Black

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano—the U.S. Mafia boss who put… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer

19. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans

20. Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW

By: Guy Evans

4.28

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Reviews "The most definitive, well written and thoroughly researched book on the rise and fall of W… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
Cover of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity by Bill O'Reilly

21. Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the latest book in the multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard tell… read more

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  • sports
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

22. Lost in Time

By: A.G. Riddle

4.20

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Control the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he … read more

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"Our future is written in the past, and it's the adventure of a lifetime."

-A.G. Riddle, Lost in Time

Cover of Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America by Bill O'Reilly

23. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Buddy Holly: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians) by Hourly History

24. Buddy Holly: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)

By: Hourly History

4.18

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Buddy Holly...Free BONUS Inside!Buddy Holly, born in Lubbock, Texas… read more

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  • biography
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Cover of The Sputnik Season: 1957: The year New York City baseball and America changed forever. (New York Baseball's Golden Era - 1903 through 1957) by Noel Hynd

25. The Sputnik Season: 1957: The year New York City baseball and America changed forever. (New York Baseball's Golden Era - 1903 through 1957)

By: Noel Hynd

4.36

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

1957 was not just the time of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ last National League pennant race. It was also … read more

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  • baseball
  • sports
Cover of 70’s & 80’s Tales of the Texas Rangers by Jim Kern

26. 70’s & 80’s Tales of the Texas Rangers

By: Jim Kern

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Sinking the owner’s borrowed 50-foot yacht, emptying a hotel’s worth of fire extinguishers on your … read more

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Cover of Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season by Dan  Joseph

27. Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season

By: Dan Joseph

4.43

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Last Ride of the Iron Horse tells the story of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he … read more

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  • baseball
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Wahoo Sam Crawford: The King of Sluggers by Kent Krause

28. Wahoo Sam Crawford: The King of Sluggers

By: Kent Krause

4.50

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

2022 SABR Larry Ritter Award finalist He has more hits than Rogers Hornsby. He drove in more run… read more

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Cover of Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance by Ady Barkan

29. Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

By: Ady Barkan

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this “gripping story of resistance and the triumph of human will” (Senator Elizabeth Warren), ac… read more

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  • biography
Cover of Ty Cobb: The Life and Legacy of the Player Who Set the Most Major League Baseball Records by Charles River Editors

30. Ty Cobb: The Life and Legacy of the Player Who Set the Most Major League Baseball Records

By: Charles River Editors

3.55

Format: 63 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further… read more

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Cover of The 1932 New York Yankees: The Story of a Legendary Team, a Remarkable Season, and a Wild World Series by Ronald A. Mayer

31. The 1932 New York Yankees: The Story of a Legendary Team, a Remarkable Season, and a Wild World Series

By: Ronald A. Mayer

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Are the 1932 Yankees the greatest team of all time?This is the story of their remarkable season, le… read more

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14 Top history books like Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship Season by Dan Joseph

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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

Daniel Gordis

4.31

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Cait Murphy

3.97

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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

Jane Leavy

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

Robert Weintraub

5.00

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Jim Bouton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

Charles Leerhsen

4.33

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Jane Leavy

4.15

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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron

Howard Bryant

4.12

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