Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
By: Daniel Okrent , Wilfrid Sheed
3.84
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any…
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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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- history
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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. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
By: Elmore Leonard
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more
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"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)
3. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
By: Ron Chernow
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dy… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
By: David Maraniss
4.25
Format: None pages,
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- history
- sports
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5. The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
By: Buster Olney
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball'… read more
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- history
- sports
- nonfiction
- baseball
6. The Celebrant
By: Eric Rolfe Greenberg
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Har… read more
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- baseball
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7. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
By: Harvey Araton
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Boys of Summer and The Bronx Is Burning, New York Times sports columnist Ha… read more
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- history
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9. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
By: H.G. Bissinger
3.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more
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- history
- sports
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10. Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
By: Daniel Okrent , Wilfrid Sheed
3.84
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any… read more
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- history
- sports
- nonfiction
- baseball
11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
By: G.J. Meyer
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account… read more
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15. 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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17. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
By: Ron Shelton
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely enterta… read more
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- history
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- baseball
18. The Heist (Isaac Bell #14)
By: Clive Cussler
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in an all-new adventure in the #1 New Y… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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- sports
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21. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
22. The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball
By: Russell A. Carleton
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not com… read more
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23. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
24. 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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25. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
By: Tyler Kepner
4.11
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling histor… read more
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26. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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27. They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers
By: Jason Turbow
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of D… read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
- baseball
28. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
By: Mark Bowden
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more
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29. Intentional Balk: Baseball's Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
By: Daniel Levitt
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included chea… read more
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30. 1901: The War of the Baseball Magnates: How the battle for baseball supremacy shaped the future of America's pastime.
By: Timothy Zarley
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Play Ball! Step right up, sports enthusiasts and history buffs! Immerse yourself in a riveting h… read more
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31. The Long Season: The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959
By: Jim Brosnan
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A timeless classic from baseball's golden era, legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan's witty and candid chr… read more
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