20 must-read baseball books like The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci

Cover of The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci

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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Cover of Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages by David Ross, Don Yaeger, David                      Ross

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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  • baseball
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse by Rich Cohen

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen

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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers by Jon Pessah

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
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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

Similar categories in Tom Verducci's The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse book and Tom Verducci's The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • leadership

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of 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

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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • nonfiction
  • sports

8. The Success Equation

By: Michael J. Mauboussin

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

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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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
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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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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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  • baseball
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski

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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  • history
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Cover of When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird

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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  • nonfiction
  • sports
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  • audiobook
Cover of The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Ben Lindbergh

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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  • nonfiction
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Cover of Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time by Ryan McGee

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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
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Cover of 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

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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  • baseball
  • history
  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Dynasty by Jeff Benedict

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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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
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  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Astroball: The New Way to Win It All by Ben Reiter

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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  • audiobook
  • baseball
  • history
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  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman

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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life by Joe Maddon

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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  • audiobook
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  • sports
Cover of Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing by Andy Martino

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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  • baseball
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking by Russell A. Carleton

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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  • baseball
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Cover of The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law

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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  • baseball
  • nonfiction
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Cover of For the Good of the Game: The Inside Story of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball by Bud Selig

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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Cover of Doc: The Life of Roy Halladay by Todd Zolecki

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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22 Best audiobook books like The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci

Transform Your Habits

Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

David Ross , Don Yaeger , David Ross

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse

Rich Cohen

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

Rich Cohen

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

Jon Pessah

3.87

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Transform Your Habits

Michael Jordan: The Life

Roland Lazenby

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

Tom Brady

3.44

Transform Your Habits

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

Alan Shipnuck

4.14

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

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