They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
By: Wayne Coffey
4.12
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
"The story of the 1969 Miracle Mets, unlikely world champions against the backdrop of the space rac…
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1. The Lost Ones (Quinn Colson, #2)
By: Ace Atkins
3.94
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Fresh from ten years as a U.S. Army Ranger, Quinn Colson finds his hands full as the newly elected … read more
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2. The Ranger (Quinn Colson, #1)
By: Ace Atkins
3.80
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where ki… read more
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3. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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4. The Innocents (Quinn Colson, #6)
By: Ace Atkins
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary new novel in the New York Times-bestselling author's acclaimed series about the r… read more
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5. When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
By: Harvey Araton
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Ha… read more
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6. Breach of Duty (J.P. Beaumont, #14)
By: J.A. Jance
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas em… read more
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7. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
By: H.G. Bissinger
3.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more
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8. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
By: Michael Lewis
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When we first meet Michael Oher, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he d… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen
3.98
Format: 240 pages,
TRAVIS McGEE He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knig… read more
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13. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more
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14. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
By: John Feinstein
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league… read more
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15. Blood, Sweat & Chalk: How the Geniuses of Football Created America's Favorite Game
By: Tim Layden
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The modern game of football is filled with plays and formations with names like the Counter Trey, t… read more
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16. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
By: Jonathan Karl
4.28
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more
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17. 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
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18. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
23. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
24. The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)
By: Elizabeth George
4.19
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the … read more
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25. The 1998 Yankees: The Inside Story of the Greatest Baseball Team Ever
By: Jack Curry
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the inside story of the 1998 Yankees' unprecedented talent with this gripping account from… read more
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26. Collateral Damage (Ali Reynolds, #17)
By: J.A. Jance
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate searc… read more
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27. So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets—the Best Worst Team in Sports
By: Devin Gordon
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the … read more
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28. War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 (FDR at War, #3)
By: Nigel Hamilton
4.47
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton’s three-part saga of F… read more
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29. They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History
By: Wayne Coffey
4.12
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. Dr. Z: The Lost Memoirs of an Irreverent Football Writer
By: Paul Zimmerman
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
During his nearly 50 years of sportswriting, including 28 at Sports Illustrated, readers of Dr. Z c… read more
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31. A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back
By: Aaron Fischman
4.57
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to "The Show," playing baseball p… read more
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