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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 142,270 ratings
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Ball Four
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The Boys of Summer
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4.12 avg rating — 12,514 ratings
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Shoeless Joe
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3.97 avg rating — 16,275 ratings
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The Natural
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3.61 avg rating — 12,285 ratings
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
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4.38 avg rating — 5,710 ratings
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Summer of '49
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4.11 avg rating — 9,877 ratings
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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4.29 avg rating — 5,742 ratings
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The Brothers K
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4.39 avg rating — 16,751 ratings
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The Art of Fielding
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3.99 avg rating — 115,391 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.05 avg rating — 11,358 ratings
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Men at Work
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3.93 avg rating — 5,999 ratings
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October 1964
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4.19 avg rating — 5,757 ratings
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Wait Till Next Year
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4.05 avg rating — 11,352 ratings
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The Summer Game
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4.29 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 5,840 ratings
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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4.12 avg rating — 2,114 ratings
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 5,547 ratings
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The Card: A Van Stone Novel
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Jim Devitt (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
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Jane Leavy (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 6,869 ratings
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
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3.83 avg rating — 2,389 ratings
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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
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4.05 avg rating — 5,908 ratings
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
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Joe Posnanski (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 4,759 ratings
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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3.83 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
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4.10 avg rating — 3,002 ratings
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Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
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4.14 avg rating — 2,827 ratings
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3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
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3.91 avg rating — 8,495 ratings
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The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
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4.04 avg rating — 5,148 ratings
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Calico Joe
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 49,383 ratings
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Bang the Drum Slowly
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3.91 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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If I Never Get Back
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4.06 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
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3.97 avg rating — 3,924 ratings
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
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4.07 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 5,479 ratings
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The Pitch That Killed
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4.25 avg rating — 926 ratings
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One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America
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Steve Kettmann (Goodreads Author)
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
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Baseball Prospectus (Editor)
4.01 avg rating — 3,772 ratings
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
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Jane Leavy (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,897 ratings
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The Bad Guys Won! : A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best
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4.09 avg rating — 5,637 ratings
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Cobb
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3.92 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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The Great American Novel
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3.60 avg rating — 2,747 ratings
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The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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4.42 avg rating — 1,218 ratings
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
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3.97 avg rating — 2,257 ratings
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Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos
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4.18 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Last Days of Summer
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Steve Kluger (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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4.32 avg rating — 427 ratings
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A False Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
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4.06 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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I Was Right On Time
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4.34 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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The Celebrant
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4.10 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
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4.43 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Why Time Begins on Opening Day
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4.18 avg rating — 344 ratings
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A Pitch for Justice
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Harold Kasselman (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
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3.89 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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3.97 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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The Wrong Stuff
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3.92 avg rating — 538 ratings
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The Long Season
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3.92 avg rating — 525 ratings
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The Bronx Zoo
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3.97 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
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Dan Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 2,503 ratings
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Summerland
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3.57 avg rating — 12,599 ratings
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The Physics of Baseball
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3.72 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Late Innings
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4.33 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
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Steve Kettmann (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 227 ratings
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The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime
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Jason Turbow (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 3,249 ratings
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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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3.56 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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The Baseball 100
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Joe Posnanski (Goodreads Author)
4.74 avg rating — 4,378 ratings
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Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
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4.11 avg rating — 768 ratings
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
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3.94 avg rating — 3,013 ratings
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You Know Me Al
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3.81 avg rating — 930 ratings
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For Love of the Game
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3.92 avg rating — 1,729 ratings
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
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Alan Schwarz (Goodreads Author)
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
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4.19 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
score: 814,
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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
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Ty Cobb
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3.87 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories
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4.03 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Living on the Black
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3.85 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball
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3.63 avg rating — 1,318 ratings
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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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4.29 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
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Howard Bryant (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
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3.78 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
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The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
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Ben Bradlee Jr. (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,607 ratings
score: 698,
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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4.19 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Bronx is Burning
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4.13 avg rating — 3,752 ratings
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I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
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4.16 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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You Gotta Have Wa
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3.95 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
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David Lamb (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Yankee Years
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3.88 avg rating — 8,513 ratings
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion
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4.11 avg rating — 389 ratings
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The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers: From 1870 to Today
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4.27 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
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3.77 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
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Baseball: The Early Years
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
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Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and Other Reflections on Baseball
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A Day In The Bleachers
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Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler (Mickey Tussler, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 172 ratings
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It's an open list, anyone can add or vote for their favorites. :)

I suppose the only issue with getting down to the century or decade for a genre as specific as "baseball" is that there might not be enough momentum/interest from the wider Goodreads community

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