Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada , Lance Williams
3.42
Format: None pages,
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1. Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
By: José Canseco
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times Bestseller In Juiced , Jose Canseco , one of the most electrifying and cont… read more
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"Sure, some people are afraid of steroids. Some people were afraid of fire, too. Afraid of electricity, or of splitting the atom. But I know that the body I have now is far superior to the one I was b…"-José Canseco, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
"Sure I tampered with my body chemistry -- and I emerged more than human! It's only a matter of time before an entire race of people are raised on steroids, and who knows what they'll be able to accom…"-José Canseco, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
2. 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
3. Michael Jordan: The Life
By: Roland Lazenby
4.31
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more
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4. Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
No player in the history of baseball has left such an indelible mark on the game as San Francisco G… read more
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5. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
By: Stephen King , Stewart O'Nan
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle t… read more
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6. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
By: Michael Lewis
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
When we first meet Michael Oher, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he d… read more
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7. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada , Lance Williams
3.42
Format: None pages,
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- politics
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- audiobook
8. 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 Bad Guys Won!
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
The Bad Guys Won, award-winning Sports Illustratedbaseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innoc… 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. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
By: H.G. Bissinger
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's quintessenti… read more
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12. 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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13. The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
By: Jason Turbow , Michael Duca
3.27
Format: None pages,
Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more c… read more
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14. 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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15. Through My Eyes
By: Tim Tebow , Nathan Whitaker
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Former University of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for the Denver Broncos, … read more
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17. 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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18. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
By: Jack McCallum
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
They were the Beatles of basketball, the MercurySeven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports … read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
By: Seth Wickersham
4.34
Format: 544 pages, ebook
Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team,… read more
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