The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
By: Tom Verducci
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustratedsenior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst T…
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1. Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
By: David Ross , Don Yaeger , David Ross
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring memoir from David Ross, the veteran catcher dubbed "Grandpa Rossy," who became the hea… read more
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"Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat."-David Ross, Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
"To be honest with everyone around you, humble no matter how good things get, reliable and consistent so that everyone knows what to expect, to willingly share your experiences with others—including t…"-David Ross, Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
2. The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
By: Rich Cohen
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of the Chicago Cubs When Rich Coh… read more
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3. Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
By: Rich Cohen
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season For R… read more
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4. The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
By: Jon Pessah
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years In the fall of 1992, … read more
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5. The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
By: Tom Verducci
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustratedsenior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst T… read more
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6. Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
By: Travis Sawchik
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller After twenty consecutive losing seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, team … read more
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7. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball
By: None , Keith Law
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's i… read more
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9. The Best Team Money Can Buy
By: Molly Knight
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
News-making, inside revelations about the tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
By: Stephen Jay Gould , None
3.56
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more
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12. 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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13. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
By: Jeff Passan
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitcher… read more
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14. The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
By: Hank Haney
3.70
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
The Big Miss is Hank Haney’s candid and surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year … read more
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"On Sunday at St St. Andrews in 2005, Tiger woke up with a two-stroke lead, and his warm-up on the practice range was freakishly good. He’d comment later that it was one of the best of his life. He hi…"-Hank Haney, The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
"Though he never articulated it, I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him - that he was put on this earth to do something …"-Hank Haney, The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods
15. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
By: John Feinstein
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. When the Game Was Ours
By: Larry Bird
4.23
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more
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20. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-te… read more
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21. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time
By: Ryan McGee
4.36
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a f… read more
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22. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
By: Erin Carlson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more
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23. The Dynasty
By: Jeff Benedict
4.46
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the… read more
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24. Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
By: Ben Reiter
4.20
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would wi… read more
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25. Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Jeff Pearlman―the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus ―comes the rollickin… read more
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26. The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life
By: Joe Maddon
4.00
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
Lessons in baseball enlightenment from three-time MLB Manager of the Year Joe Maddon. No one sees … read more
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27. Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing
By: Andy Martino
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A baseball book that reads like a spy novel—a story about cheaters and the cheated that has the po… read more
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28. The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
By: Russell A. Carleton
4.10
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball i… read more
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29. The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
By: Keith Law
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN baseball writer and author of the acclaimed Smart … read more
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30. For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball
By: Bud Selig
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times bestseller The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unpre… read more
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31. Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay
By: Todd Zolecki
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hall of Famer, Cy Young winner, and All-Star will forever be used to describe the illustrious caree… read more
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