7 Top sports books like Off Base: Confessions of a Thief by Rickey Henderson

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Off Base: Confessions of a Thief

By: Rickey Henderson

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Baseball's premier base stealer traces his life from his childhood in Oakland to glory in the Major…

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1. Blood Trail (Joe Pickett, #8)

By: C.J. Box

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Joe Pickett novel from #1"New York Times-"bestselling author C.J. Box. Game wardens have found a … read more

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2. Below Zero (Joe Pickett, #9)

By: C.J. Box

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling … read more

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3. Nowhere To Run (Joe Pickett, #10)

By: C.J. Box

4.29

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but ther… read more

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4. Ball Four

By: Jim Bouton

4.05

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.When first p… read more

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  • baseball
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"The older they get, the better they get when they were younger"

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four

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5. Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

By: Ed Linn , Bill Veeck

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men… read more

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  • baseball
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lip…"

-Ed Linn, Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

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6. In Plain Sight (Joe Pickett, #6)

By: C.J. Box

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her i… read more

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7. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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8. Free Fire (Joe Pickett, #7)

By: C.J. Box

4.67

Format: 360 pages,

Joe Picket returns, this time to the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Deftly plotted and full of… read more

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9. Endangered (Joe Pickett, #15)

By: C.J. Box

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming g… read more

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10. The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

By: Mario Puzo , Peter Bart , Robert Thompson

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon. Almost fifty … read more

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"Life is so beautiful"

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

"Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes."

-Mario Puzo, The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

11. The Summer Game

By: Roger Angell

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

The Summer Game, Roger Angell's first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtf… read more

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12. Winterkill (Joe Pickett, #3)

By: C.J. Box

3.62

Format: 171 pages,

Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn w… read more

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13. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

14. Cold Wind (Joe Pickett, #11)

By: C.J. Box

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. When Earl Alden is fou… read more

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15. Wait Till Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.07

Format: None pages,

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16. Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett, #4)

By: C.J. Box

3.91

Format: 385 pages,

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17. Out Of Range (Joe Pickett, #5)

By: C.J. Box

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder. Joe … read more

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18. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox

19. No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

By: Michael J. Fox

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our live… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife

By: Brad Balukjian

4.00

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid by Willie Mays

22. 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid

By: Willie Mays

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Willie Mays shares the inspirations and influences responsible for guiding him on and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's by Dale Tafoya

23. Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's

By: Dale Tafoya

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics was one of the most successful franchises in professional… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • baseball
  • biography
  • sports
Cover of Off Base: Confessions of a Thief by Rickey Henderson

24. Off Base: Confessions of a Thief

By: Rickey Henderson

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Baseball's premier base stealer traces his life from his childhood in Oakland to glory in the Major… read more

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  • baseball
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports

9 Best nonfiction books like Off Base: Confessions of a Thief by Rickey Henderson

Transform Your Habits

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Ed Linn , Bill Veeck

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson

4.43

Transform Your Habits

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

Michael J. Fox

4.13

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27 Top fiction books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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