12 Top sports books like Intangibles: Unlocking The Science and Soul of Team Chemistry by Joan Ryan

Cover of Intangibles: Unlocking The Science and Soul of Team Chemistry by Joan Ryan

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…

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Cover of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom M. Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, None

1. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

By: Tom M. Tango , Mitchel Lichtman , None

4.08

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James… read more

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  • baseball
  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

2. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

By: Marcus Buckingham , Curt Coffman

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in … read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • leadership
"People leave managers, not companies"

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!"

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning."

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics."

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Cover of Moneyball by Michael   Lewis

3. 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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • science
"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

4. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more

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5. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

By: Steve Jamison , Bill Walsh , None

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Even when you have an organization brimming with talent, victory is not always under your control.… read more

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Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

6. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Cover of LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf by Alan Shipnuck

7. LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

8. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex  Hutchinson

9. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By: Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner’s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contr… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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10. Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdo… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • leadership
"Build a life you don't need to escape from."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Routine, done for long enough and done sincerely enough, becomes more than routine. It becomes ritual—it becomes sanctified and holy."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

"Put yourself in tough situations. Accept challenges. Familiarize yourself with the unfamiliar. That's how you widen your perspective and your understanding."

-Ryan Holiday, Stillness Is the Key

Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

11. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race by Daniel Z. Lieberman

12. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
"It’s better to be smart than strong."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

Cover of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

13. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

By: Sebastian Junger

4.02

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at pos… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men"."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others"

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

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

14. 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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (And Doesn't) by Mike Florio

15. Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (And Doesn't)

By: Mike Florio

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The story of a modern NFL that can’t get out of its own way—and can’t stop making money In recent … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson

16. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback by Bruce Arians

17. The Quarterback Whisperer: How to Build an Elite NFL Quarterback

By: Bruce Arians

4.00

Format: 256 pages, ebook

What is an elite NFL QB and what separates that player from the others? One answer is the coach the… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor

18. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

By: Ian O'Connor

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Intangibles: Unlocking The Science and Soul of Team Chemistry by Joan Ryan

19. 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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  • science
  • baseball
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski

20. Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid

21. Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America

By: Jason Reid

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andsca… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction

19 Best nonfiction books like Intangibles: Unlocking The Science and Soul of Team Chemistry by Joan Ryan

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The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

Tom M. Tango , Mitchel Lichtman , None

4.08

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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham , Curt Coffman

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

4.26

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

Loretta Graziano Breuning

4.03

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

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