8 Best baseball books like Tales from the Mets Dugout by Bruce Markusen

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Tales from the Mets Dugout

By: Bruce Markusen

3.25

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The Detroit Tigers' Olde English "D" is one of the most recognized symbols in sports. It stands for…

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1. Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

4.16

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independen… read more

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2. Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball

By: Wayne Coffey , R.A. Dickey

3.97

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseb… read more

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"One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best…"

-Wayne Coffey, Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball

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3. The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more

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4. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

By: Laurence Gonzales

4.00

Format: None pages,

In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more

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5. Tales from the 1962 New York Mets Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Stories from the Mets Inaugural Season

By: Janet Paskin

4.17

Format: None pages, ebook

Tales from the 1962 New York Mets Dugout" chronicles the adventures, mishaps, and unforgettable sto… read more

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6. A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"A House Divided," the third volume of the trilogy that began with "The Good Earth" and "Sons," is … read more

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7. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

By: Richard Preston

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more

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8. Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

By: Edmund Morris

4.10

Format: 766 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK •  “Colonel Roosevelt is compelling readi… read more

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"If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chafed,nonetheless,to regulate it."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred especially.His radicalism was a matter of energy rather than urgency."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king."

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

"He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot o…"

-Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)

9. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

By: David Sedaris

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more

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10. 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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11. Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game

By: George Vecsey

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, g… read more

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12. Tales from the Philadelphia Phillies Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Phillies Stories Ever Told

By: Rich Westcott

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Since 1883, the Philadelphia Phillies have been up, down, and all around. Most recently, thanks to … read more

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13. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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14. Saint Thomas Aquinas

By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more

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15. Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

By: Gregg Jones

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find … read more

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16. Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob

By: Gil Reavill

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Mafia Summitis the true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra c… read more

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17. The Whites

By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more

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18. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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19. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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20. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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21. 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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22. 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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23. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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24. Sons (House of Earth, #2)

By: Pearl S. Buck

3.86

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

The second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth the powerful story of three brother… read more

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"In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring."

-Pearl S. Buck, Sons (House of Earth, #2)

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25. Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

By: Eric Jay Dolin

3.77

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, B… read more

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"Far from being misanthropic loners with anger issues, most of these pirates had lives that were intimately intertwined with the communities from which they came, and to which they one day hoped to re…"

-Eric Jay Dolin, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

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26. Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life

By: Bill Madden

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, “must-read” (Keith Hernandez) biography of Hall of Fame pitching legend Tom Seave… read more

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27. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

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28. 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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29. Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul

By: Chris Donnelly

3.96

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like n… read more

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30. Pull Up a Chair: The Vin Scully Story

By: Curt Smith

3.20

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In 1950, Vin Scully broadcast his first major league baseball game for the then–Brooklyn Dodgers. N… read more

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31. Tales from the Mets Dugout

By: Bruce Markusen

3.25

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The Detroit Tigers' Olde English "D" is one of the most recognized symbols in sports. It stands for… read more

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4.27

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4.12

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