Shoeless Joe
By: W.P. Kinsella
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi…
Want to Read $ 9.40"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
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1. Imperfect: An Improbable Life
By: Jim Abbott , Tim Brown
3.89
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of … read more
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- baseball
- sports
"I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance."-Jim Abbott, Imperfect: An Improbable Life
2. 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
- sports
"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
3. 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
- sports
"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
4. The Natural
By: Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker
4.12
Format: None pages,
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin B… read more
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- baseball
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
- sports
5. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
By: George F. Will
3.50
Format: 192 pages,
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator and longtime baseball fanatic George F. Will-… read more
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- baseball
- sports
6. Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
By: Dan Barry
3.14
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"Bottom of the 33rdis chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is ne… read more
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- sports
7. The Actual : A Novella
By: Saul Bellow
3.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Nobel Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist introduces Harry Trellman, an aging busine… read more
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- literature
- novels
- classics
- fiction
8. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
By: Robert W. Creamer , Dick Schaap
4.31
Format: None pages,
Babe Ruth moved beyond the baselines and outfield fences of the baseball stadiums that brought him … read more
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- baseball
- sports
9. For Love of the Game
By: Michael Shaara
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Billy Chapel is a baseball legend, a man who has devoted his life to the game he loves and plays so… 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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- sports
"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. Shoeless Joe & Me (A Baseball Card Adventure, #4)
By: Dan Gutman
4.12
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the s… 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. 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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16. Shoeless Joe
By: W.P. Kinsella
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more
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- baseball
- classics
- magical realism
- canada
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- sports
- fantasy
"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
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18. Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
By: John Feinstein
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed #1 bestselling author . . . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league… read more
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19. The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
By: Leigh Montville
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to hi… read more
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20. 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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21. The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
By: James D. Bradley
3.64
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter… read more
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22. Double Play (Burke, #1)
By: Robert B. Parker
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also change… read more
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23. Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Most of what we do on land ends up impacting the ocean, but never is that clearer than when we look… read more
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24. 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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- sports
25. 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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26. The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Jeff Shaara
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara brings alive the heart-stopping days and nights of th… read more
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- historical fiction
27. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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28. 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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29. Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the next major work of baseball narrative… read more
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30. In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army
By: Charles Barber
4.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joine… read more
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31. The North Line
By: Matt Riordan
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fi… read more
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