In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair
By: Bob Ryan
3.62
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored e…
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1. 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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2. The Last Innocents: The Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1960's
By: Michael Leahy
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 196… read more
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3. Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
By: Dave Barry
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning … read more
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4. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports
By: Guy Lawson
3.96
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more
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5. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
6. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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7. 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
8. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
9. Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More
By: James Burrows
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I'm delighte… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. The Greatest Summer in Baseball History: How the '73 Season Changed Us Forever
By: John Rosengren
4.12
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
"The vivid story of a young Reggie Jackson on Charlie Finley's A's and the veteran Willie Mays on Y… read more
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14. 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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15. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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16. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
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17. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Jeff Shaara
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more
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18. Tom Clancy Act of Defiance
By: Brian Andrews
4.65
Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition
When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a c… read more
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19. Like a Rolling Stone
By: Jann S. Wenner
3.84
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offe… read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles
By: Peter Brown
3.53
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more
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23. Tall Men, Short Shorts: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter
By: Leigh Montville
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This "part memoir, part sports story" ( Wall Street Journal ) from the New York Times bestselling a… read more
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24. 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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25. Jim Kaat: Good As Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball
By: Jim Kaat
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable look at a lifetime of baseball packed with humor and passion for the game With a … read more
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26. A Damn Near Perfect Game: Reclaiming America's Pastime
By: Joe Kelly
3.72
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Baseball's most outspoken fireballer brings the high heat in a book that calls out the hacks, cheat… read more
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27. Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
By: Erik Sherman
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers’ opening-da… read more
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28. The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1)
By: Kat Ailes
3.71
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of s… read more
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29. In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair
By: Bob Ryan
3.62
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored e… read more
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30. Larceny and Old Leather: The Mischievous Legacy of Major League
By: Eldon L. Ham
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Every baseball player from little league to the big leagues knows it is illegal to steal signs, yet… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
