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Moneyball
Moneyball
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Michael Lewis

4.27 avg rating — 142,413 ratings
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Ball Four
Ball Four
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Jim Bouton

4.05 avg rating — 20,834 ratings
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The Boys of Summer
The Boys of Summer
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Roger Kahn

4.12 avg rating — 12,521 ratings
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Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe
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W.P. Kinsella

3.97 avg rating — 16,287 ratings
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The Natural
The Natural
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Bernard Malamud

3.61 avg rating — 12,296 ratings
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The Glory of Their Times: T...
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
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Lawrence S. Ritter

4.38 avg rating — 5,715 ratings
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Summer of '49
Summer of '49
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David Halberstam

4.11 avg rating — 9,887 ratings
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The New Bill James Historic...
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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Bill James

4.29 avg rating — 5,743 ratings
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The Brothers K
The Brothers K
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David James Duncan

4.39 avg rating — 16,763 ratings
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The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding
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Chad Harbach (Goodreads Author)

3.99 avg rating — 115,422 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black So...
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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Eliot Asinof

4.05 avg rating — 11,364 ratings
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Men at Work
Men at Work
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George F. Will

3.93 avg rating — 6,002 ratings
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October 1964
October 1964
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David Halberstam

4.19 avg rating — 5,763 ratings
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Wait Till Next Year
Wait Till Next Year
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Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.05 avg rating — 11,376 ratings
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The Summer Game
The Summer Game
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Roger Angell

4.29 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Luckiest Man: The Life and ...
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)

4.26 avg rating — 5,843 ratings
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Auto...
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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Bill Veeck

4.12 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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Clemente: The Passion and G...
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
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
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
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Jane Leavy (Goodreads Author)

4.08 avg rating — 6,871 ratings
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
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W.P. Kinsella

3.83 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
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The Teammates: A Portrait o...
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
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David Halberstam

4.05 avg rating — 5,911 ratings
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The Soul of Baseball: A Roa...
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 — 4,767 ratings
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The Universal Baseball Asso...
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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Robert Coover

3.83 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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Willie Mays: The Life, The ...
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
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James S. Hirsch

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Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
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Robert W. Creamer

4.14 avg rating — 2,827 ratings
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3 Nights in August: Strateg...
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
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Buzz Bissinger

3.91 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
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The Bullpen Gospels: Major ...
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
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Dirk Hayhurst

4.04 avg rating — 5,150 ratings
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Calico Joe
Calico Joe
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

3.88 avg rating — 49,432 ratings
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Bang the Drum Slowly
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Mark Harris

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If I Never Get Back
If I Never Get Back
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Darryl Brock

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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
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Richard Ben Cramer

3.97 avg rating — 3,924 ratings
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Satchel: The Life and Times...
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
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Larry Tye

4.07 avg rating — 2,862 ratings
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Faithful: Two Diehard Bosto...
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 — 5,482 ratings
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The Pitch That Killed
The Pitch That Killed
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Mike Sowell

4.25 avg rating — 927 ratings
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One Day at Fenway: A Day in...
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 Number...
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...
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
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Jane Leavy (Goodreads Author)

3.97 avg rating — 6,899 ratings
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The Bad Guys Won! : A Seaso...
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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Jeff Pearlman

4.10 avg rating — 5,649 ratings
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Cobb
Cobb
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Al Stump

3.92 avg rating — 2,478 ratings
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The Great American Novel
The Great American Novel
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Philip Roth

3.60 avg rating — 2,749 ratings
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The Lords of the Realm: The...
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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John Helyar

4.42 avg rating — 1,218 ratings
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Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cr...
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
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Cait Murphy

3.97 avg rating — 2,257 ratings
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Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, ...
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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Jonah Keri

4.18 avg rating — 1,935 ratings
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Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer
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Steve Kluger (Goodreads Author)

4.37 avg rating — 5,387 ratings
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Bums: An Oral History of th...
Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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Peter Golenbock

4.32 avg rating — 427 ratings
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A False Spring
A False Spring
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Pat Jordan

4.06 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy o...
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
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Daniel Okrent

4.06 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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I Was Right On Time
I Was Right On Time
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Buck O'Neil

4.34 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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The Celebrant
The Celebrant
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Eric Rolfe Greenberg

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The Great American Baseball...
The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
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Brendan C. Boyd

4.43 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Why Time Begins on Opening Day
Why Time Begins on Opening Day
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Thomas Boswell

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A Pitch for Justice
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:...
Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
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Dan Epstein

3.89 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Wherever I Wind Up: My Ques...
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
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R.A. Dickey

3.97 avg rating — 4,806 ratings
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The Wrong Stuff
The Wrong Stuff
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Bill Lee

3.92 avg rating — 540 ratings
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The Long Season
The Long Season
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Jim Brosnan

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The Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo
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Sparky Lyle

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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, R...
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
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Dan Barry (Goodreads Author)

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Summerland
Summerland
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Michael Chabon

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The Physics of Baseball
The Physics of Baseball
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Robert K. Adair

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Late Innings
Late Innings
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Baseball Maverick: How Sand...
Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
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Steve Kettmann (Goodreads Author)

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The Baseball Codes: Beanbal...
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)

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The Catcher Was a Spy: The ...
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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Nicholas Dawidoff

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The Baseball 100
The Baseball 100
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Joe Posnanski (Goodreads Author)

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Only the Ball Was White: A ...
Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
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Robert W. Peterson

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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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Arnold Rampersad

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Fantasyland: A Season on Ba...
Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
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Sam Walker

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You Know Me Al
You Know Me Al
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Ring Lardner

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For Love of the Game
For Love of the Game
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The Numbers Game: Baseball'...
The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's ...
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Opening Day: The Story of J...
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
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Whatever Happened to the Ha...
Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
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Bill James

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Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
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Charles C. Alexander

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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes ...
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories
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W.P. Kinsella

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Living on the Black
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John Feinstein

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Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for...
Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball
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Bob Costas

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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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Charles Leerhsen

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The Last Hero: A Life of He...
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
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Howard Bryant (Goodreads Author)

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The Extra 2%: How Wall Stre...
The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
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Jonah Keri

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The Kid: The Immortal Life ...
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
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Ben Bradlee Jr. (Goodreads Author)

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Baseball's Great Experiment...
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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Jules Tygiel

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Bronx is Burning
Bronx is Burning
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Jonathan Mahler

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I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aa...
I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
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You Gotta Have Wa
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Robert Whiting

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Stolen Season: A Journey Th...
Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
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The Yankee Years
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Game Time: A Baseball Compa...
Game Time: A Baseball Companion
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Roger Angell

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The Bill James Guide to Bas...
The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers: From 1870 to Today
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The Summer of Beer and Whis...
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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Scorecasting: The Hidden In...
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
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Tobias J. Moskowitz

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Baseball: The Early Years
Baseball: The Early Years
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Harold Seymour

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One Shot at Forever: A Smal...
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
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Chris Ballard

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Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Y...
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and Other Reflections on Baseball
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George F. Will

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A Day In The Bleachers
A Day In The Bleachers
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Arnold Hano

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Cardboard Gods: An All-Amer...
Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
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Josh Wilker

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Where Nobody Knows Your Nam...
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
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John Feinstein

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The Legend of Mickey Tussler (Mickey Tussler, #1)
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message 1: by Douglas (new)
Dec 10, 2010 06:16AM

Douglas Gladstone Anyone who appreciates the business side of baseball ought to check out A BITTER CUP OF COFFEE; HOW MLB & THE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION THREW 874 RETIREES A CURVE, at http://www.abittercupofcoffee.com

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message 2: by Kamas (new)
Mar 17, 2012 03:49AM

Kamas Kirian I HAD A HAMMER by Hank Aaron is listed twice.

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message 3: by Mike (new)
Apr 04, 2013 07:36AM

Mike my vote for #1 is The Southpaw by Mark Harris

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message 4: by David (new)
Mar 27, 2014 07:21AM

David Hi all, I've added quite a few baseball books to this list. Go through it if you get a chance and see if there are any others you've read to vote for.

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message 5: by David (new)
Aug 25, 2016 01:00PM

David Biddle It's been a few years. Need to add Jeff Suppan's "The Arm" somewhere. I put it near the top of my list for sure. Excellent inside scoop.

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message 6: by GA (new)
May 20, 2018 02:03AM

GA I would add The Beer & Whiskey League by David Nemec.

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message 7: by David (new)
Jun 28, 2019 11:11AM

David Stephen King's Blockade Billy is on the list twice at 179 & 185.

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message 8: by David (new)
Jun 28, 2019 02:09PM

David GA wrote: "I would add The Beer & Whiskey League by David Nemec."

It's an open list, anyone can add or vote for their favorites. :)

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message 9: by Albert (new)
Feb 12, 2020 10:21AM

Albert Love this list! Hoping one day we can start a "21st Century Best Baseball Books" or better yet, "2010s Best Baseball" and "2020s Best Baseball" something like it soon, because a lot of really good books that came out the last 5-10 years get buried!

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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message 10: by Ken (new)
Apr 04, 2022 03:26PM

Ken Look for a book but I can't remember it's name. It's about the 1948 American League pennant race. Thank you.

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message 11: by Pablo (new)
Apr 04, 2022 08:00PM

Pablo Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race by David E. Kaiser

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message 12: by Ken (new)
Apr 05, 2022 07:03AM

Ken Pablo wrote: "Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race by David E. Kaiser" Thank You. I've ordered it. Much appreciated.

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