Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
By: Jason Turbow
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straig…
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1. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
By: Joe Posnanski
4.38
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Baseball 100 “A fascinating account of a man who outlasted the ignorance of a na… read more
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"Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball."-Joe Posnanski, The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
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. The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
By: Joe Posnanski
4.12
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Baseball 100 “Posnanski offers an eloquent reminder that the great … read more
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4. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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5. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
By: Jason Turbow
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straig… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
By: Lawrence S. Ritter
5.00
Format: 299 pages,
From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more
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9. 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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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. Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius
By: Bill Pennington , Scott Waxman
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures… read more
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12. 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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13. October 1964
By: David Halberstam
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1989 David Halberstam published "Summer of '49," which became a #1 "New York Times" bestseller. … read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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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 Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
By: Brad Balukjian
4.00
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with somethi… 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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