14 must-read nonfiction books like The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier

Cover of The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier

The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams

By: Steve Currier

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Hockey has had its share of bizarre tales over the years, but none compares to the fascinating stor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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2. John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By: Scott Eyman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more t… read more

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3. The Game

By: Ken Dryden

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one … read more

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4. Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931

By: Norman L. Macht

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Philadelphia Athletics dominated the first fourteen years of the American League, winning six p… read more

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5. 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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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

6. 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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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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7. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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9. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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11. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Cover of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print) by Tyler Kepner

12. 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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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock

13. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

By: Caroline Dodds Pennock

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler

14. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

By: Theresa Runstedtler

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

15. 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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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
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16. Chuck Berry: An American Life

By: R.J. Smith

4.11

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best kn… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • sports
  • history
Cover of The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge

18. The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

By: Michael MacCambridge

4.25

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

“Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of  The Right Call A captivating chr… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman L. Macht

19. Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball

By: Norman L. Macht

4.19

Format: 742 pages, Hardcover

Connie Mack (1862–1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game’s first true celebrit… read more

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  • sports
Cover of Icing on the Plains: The Rough Ride of Kansas City’s NHL Scouts by Troy Treasure

20. Icing on the Plains: The Rough Ride of Kansas City’s NHL Scouts

By: Troy Treasure

3.47

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of Kansas City’s attempt to integrate major-league hockey into its sports marketp… read more

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  • sports
  • hockey
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21. The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams

By: Steve Currier

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Hockey has had its share of bizarre tales over the years, but none compares to the fascinating stor… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • hockey

15 Best history books like The California Golden Seals: A Tale of White Skates, Red Ink, and One of the NHL's Most Outlandish Teams by Steve Currier

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

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15 Top audiobook books like Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

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

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

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