5 must-read baseball books like If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box by Ken Korach

Cover of If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box by Ken Korach

If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ken Korach

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Throughout their history, the Oakland Athletics have been one of the most audacious and individual …

If you liked the baseball plot in If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box by Ken Korach , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of 100 Things A's Fans Should Know  Do Before They Die by Susan Slusser, Billy Beane

1. 100 Things A's Fans Should Know Do Before They Die

By: Susan Slusser , Billy Beane

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

With traditions, records, and team lore, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, eve… read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

2. The Bride Wore Black

By: Cornell Woolrich , William Irish

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

AMERICA'S MASTER OF SUSPENSE...FIRST IN THE DEFINITIVE SERIES OF THIS AMERICAN GENIUS No one knew w… read more

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3. Champions: The Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties and the Building of the Third

By: Glenn Dickey , Joe Morgan

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Unknown Binding

From the record-setting five straight divisional and three straight World Series championships in t… read more

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4. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

A multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyie… read more

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5. A Very Punchable Face

By: Colin Jost

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—meta… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As Lorne says, 'Careers are made by choices."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul"

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"I now hate the phrase ‘That will work.’ It’s such a mediocre goal to set for yourself."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

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6. How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more

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"Burial is just another recipe"

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

7. 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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum

8. Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

By: Eric Nusbaum

4.15

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big le… read more

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

9. 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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town's Fight for Survival by Andy Dolich

10. Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town's Fight for Survival

By: Andy Dolich

3.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box by Ken Korach

11. If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

By: Ken Korach

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Throughout their history, the Oakland Athletics have been one of the most audacious and individual … read more

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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

7 Best nonfiction books like If These Walls Could Talk: Oakland A's: Stories from the Oakland A's Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box by Ken Korach

Transform Your Habits

100 Things A's Fans Should Know Do Before They Die

Susan Slusser , Billy Beane

4.75

Transform Your Habits

A Very Punchable Face

Colin Jost

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

Howard Bryant

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

Eric Nusbaum

4.15

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20 best-selling nonfiction books like Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust, and a Sports Town's Fight for Survival by Andy Dolich

Transform Your Habits

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

Dennis Smith

3.54

Transform Your Habits

A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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