6 Top baseball books like The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime by Tom Stanton

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The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime

By: Tom Stanton

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promis…

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1. If I Never Get Back

By: Darryl Brock

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Time travel meets baseball in this "grand adventure" about a modern-day reporter who witnesses the … read more

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  • baseball
  • sports
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2. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

By: Joe Posnanski

4.38

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Baseball 100 “A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a na… read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball."

-Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

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3. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson

4.05

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"

-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

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4. The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

By: Michael Shaara

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two drea… read more

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"Never let them see you run."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"Southern women like their men religious and a little mad."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"He was one of those, like Stuart, who looked on war as God's greatest game."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

"…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war."

-Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

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5. To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War

By: Jeff Shaara

4.25

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil … read more

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6. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

By: Charles Leerhsen

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Finally - a fascinating andauthoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in base… read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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7. The Glorious Cause

By: Jeff Shaara

3.79

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolutio… read more

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8. The Last Full Measure (The Civil War Trilogy, #3)

By: Jeff Shaara

4.09

Format: 148 pages,

In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels,Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War… read more

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9. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

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10. Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series

By: Louis P. Masur

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A suspenseful account of the glorious days a century ago when our national madness began A post-sea… read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

11. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Known and loved by generation after generation, this shrewd amateur detective, with faithful Dr Wat… read more

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12. 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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13. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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14. Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the… read more

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15. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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16. Gods and Generals (The Civil War Trilogy, #1)

By: Jeff Shaara

4.46

Format: 192 pages,

In a prequel of sorts to his father Michael Shaara's 1974 epic novel The Killer Angels, Jeff Shaara… read more

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17. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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18. A Walk in the Woods

By: Bill Bryson

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more

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19. The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII

By: Bob Drury

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50)

By: Mike Lupica

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of … read more

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Cover of Robert B. Parker's Bad Influence (Sunny Randall #11) by Alison Gaylin

21. Robert B. Parker's Bad Influence (Sunny Randall #11)

By: Alison Gaylin

4.10

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Sunny Randall’s newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all… read more

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22. No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)

By: Lee Child

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a su… read more

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23. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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24. 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
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

25. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

By: Carol Leonnig

4.24

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail by Barney Scout Mann

28. Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

By: Barney Scout Mann

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North , legendary tr… read more

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29. The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime

By: Tom Stanton

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
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30. The Enchanted Season

By: Lance Parrish

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of the Detroit Tigers' unforgettable 1984 season In 1984, fantasy became realit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill (Sunny Randall Book 12)

By: Alison Gaylin

4.32

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Boston PI Sunny Randall is back to investigate the disappearance of a hard-partying energy drink mo… read more

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14 Top nonfiction books like The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime by Tom Stanton

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

Joe Posnanski

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Erik Larson

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

Charles Leerhsen

4.33

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

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21 must-read fiction books like No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27) by Lee Child

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Red Winter (Jack Ryan #22)

Marc Cameron

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Triple Cross (Alex Cross, #30)

James Patterson

4.39

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