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…
Want to Read $ 8.61"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
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1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
By: Phil Knight
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more
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"We must all be professors of the jungle."-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
2. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
By: Bill Simmons
4.20
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to wri… read more
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- history
- sports
- biography
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"But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper."-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
"If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up."-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
3. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales
3.76
Format: 763 pages, Hardcover
In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the chan… read more
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- history
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4. 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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- baseball
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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
5. 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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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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7. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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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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- audiobook
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- sports
9. The Jordan Rules
By: None , None
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jor… 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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- audiobook
- baseball
- history
- biography
- finance
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- economics
- business
- science
"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. The Breaks of the Game
By: David Halberstam
3.73
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… 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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14. 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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16. Happy, Happy, Happy
By: Mark Schlabach , Phil Robertson
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition
This no-holds-barred autobiography chronicles the remarkable life of Phil Robertson, the original D… read more
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17. 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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18. The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
By: Phil Jackson , Michael Arkush
4.00
Format: None pages,
For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers' 2003-2004 high-wir… read more
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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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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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21. 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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