The Science of Baseball: The Math, Technology, and Data Behind the Great American Pastime
By: Will Carroll
3.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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1. The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan Universe, #5)
By: Tom Clancy
3.94
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--A… read more
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2. The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
By: Jonah Keri
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailin… read more
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3. Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
By: Travis Sawchik
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller After twenty consecutive losing seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, team … read more
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4. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
5. Take Your Eye Off the Puck: How to Watch Hockey By Knowing Where to Look
By: Jeremy Roenick , Greg Wyshynski
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey More and more fans are wa… read more
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6. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
By: Jeff Passan
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitcher… read more
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7. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
By: Ron Shelton
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely enterta… read more
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8. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
9. 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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10. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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11. 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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12. Anthem
By: Noah Hawley
3.51
Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
An epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets o… read more
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13. Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
By: Natasha Lance Rogoff
4.15
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
"In this thrilling debut, television producer and filmmaker Rogoff recounts her mission to bring Se… read more
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14. The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
By: John Lisle
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
John Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch― The Dirty Tricks De… read more
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15. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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16. The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
By: Tyler Kepner
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly ent… read more
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17. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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18. 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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19. Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports
By: Bruce Schoenfeld
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of profe… read more
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20. Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me
By: Paul O'Neill
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This fun and fiery New York Times bestselling memoir tells the life story of All Star Yankee and fi… read more
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21. Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the next major work of baseball narrative… read more
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22. The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
By: Keith Law
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN baseball writer and author of the acclaimed Smart … read more
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23. Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever
By: Dan Good
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Playing Through the Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever , jo… read more
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24. A Fan's Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball
By: Anthony Castrovince
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Broken up into sections (pitching, fielding, hitting), this authoritative yet fun and easy guide wi… read more
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25. Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
By: Daniel Levitt
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included chea… read more
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26. Stumbling around the Bases: The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras
By: Andy McCue
4.32
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the late 1950s to the 1980s, baseball’s American League mismanaged integration and expansion, … read more
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27. How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink
By: Pedro Moura
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of how the Dodgers won their first championship in more than thirty years—but help… read more
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28. The Joy of Basketball: An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game
By: Ben Detrick
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From writer Ben Detrick and artist Andrew Kuo, a vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide … read more
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29. An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
By: Paul Oyer
3.54
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and o… read more
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30. The Science of Baseball: The Math, Technology, and Data Behind the Great American Pastime
By: Will Carroll
3.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In The Science of Baseball , sportswriter and injury expert Will Carroll shows how understanding t… read more
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31. Intangibles: Unlocking The Science and Soul of Team Chemistry
By: Joan Ryan
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From baseball to biology, an award-winning journalist highlights the power of team chemistry in thi… read more
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