Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
By: David Maraniss
4.33
Format: None pages,
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1. Ball Four
By: Jim Bouton
4.05
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton.When first p… read more
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"It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"The older they get, the better they get when they were younger"-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
"I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while."-Jim Bouton, Ball Four
2. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
By: Charles Leerhsen
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Finally - a fascinating andauthoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in base… read more
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3. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
By: Jane Leavy
4.15
Format: None pages,
The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more
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4. The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
By: Howard Bryant
4.12
Format: 323 pages,
In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry (Hank) Aaron's reputation has only grown in ma… read more
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5. Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
By: David Maraniss
4.33
Format: None pages,
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6. Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
By: Leigh Montville
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generatio… read more
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7. The Boys of Summer
By: Roger Kahn
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then we… read more
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8. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
By: David Grann
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more
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9. 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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10. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
By: Jane Leavy
4.00
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
"The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed.... This is an absorbing book, beautifull… read more
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11. 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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13. Summer of '49
By: David Halberstam
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
With incredible skill, passion, and insight, Pulitzer Prize-winningauthor David Halberstam returns … read more
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14. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
By: Jonathan Eig
4.24
Format: 96 pages,
Every baseball fan is familiar with Lou Gehrig. He was the Iron Horse, the New York Yankee who neve… read more
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15. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
By: John Feinstein
4.08
Format: 288 pages,
"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more
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16. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
17. 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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18. 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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19. Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
By: Luke Epplin
4.48
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of four men—Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige—whose improbab… read more
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20. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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21. 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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