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The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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4.42 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 145,291 ratings
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Ball Four
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4.05 avg rating — 21,208 ratings
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A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
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4.13 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.05 avg rating — 11,502 ratings
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
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4.30 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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4.12 avg rating — 2,138 ratings
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Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
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4.32 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
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3.67 avg rating — 825 ratings
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
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3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
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4.16 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age
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4.05 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Sons of Summer
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4.53 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Split Season: 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike that Saved Baseball
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3.92 avg rating — 389 ratings
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One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball
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3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
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4.21 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
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3.91 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck Baseball's Marketing Genius
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Built to Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies from Baseball's Winningest GM
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3.45 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Playing Around; The Million-Dollar Infield Goes to Florida
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Future Value: The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar
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4.10 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Out of Left Field
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution
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4.27 avg rating — 997 ratings
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Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball
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3.92 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven: How a Ragtag Group of Fans Took the Fall for Major League Baseball
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3.80 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing
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4.14 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game
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3.94 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
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3.90 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 775 ratings
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
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4.11 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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The Comic Book Story of Baseball: The Heroes, Hustlers, and History-Making Swings (and Misses) of America's National Pastime
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3.94 avg rating — 218 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 — 5,808 ratings
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Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life In and Out of Major League Baseball
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3.98 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
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3.79 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League
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3.79 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
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3.87 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Imperfect Diamond
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
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3.75 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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A Whole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution
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4.20 avg rating — 236 ratings
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1947: When All Hell Broke Loose In Baseball
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3.81 avg rating — 58 ratings
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George Steinbrenner and the Yankees
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
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4.03 avg rating — 1,136 ratings
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Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball
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4.02 avg rating — 1,361 ratings
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Baseball
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4.19 avg rating — 2,253 ratings
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Branch Rickey
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3.42 avg rating — 617 ratings
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Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League
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3.61 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
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4.05 avg rating — 99 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 — 1,190 ratings
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Baseball's Power Shift: How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
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3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game
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3.88 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Strange But True Baseball Stories
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3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman
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3.79 avg rating — 107 ratings
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A People's History of Baseball
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3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
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3.88 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
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4.10 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
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4.40 avg rating — 4,887 ratings
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Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
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4.05 avg rating — 2,470 ratings
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The 34-Ton Bat: The Story of Baseball as Told Through Bobbleheads, Cracker Jacks, Jockstraps, Eye Black, and 375 Other Strange and Unforgettable Objects
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3.89 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat
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4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
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4.45 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
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4.15 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
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4.39 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Call Me Ted
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4.06 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
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In the Time of Bobby Cox: The Atlanta Braves, Their Manager, My Couch, Two Decades, and Me
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3.70 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Storytellers: From Mel Allen to Bob Costas : Sixty Years of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth
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3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball
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3.63 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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