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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 145,736 ratings
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Ball Four
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4.05 avg rating — 21,255 ratings
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The Boys of Summer
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4.13 avg rating — 12,683 ratings
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Shoeless Joe
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3.97 avg rating — 16,497 ratings
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The Natural
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3.61 avg rating — 12,529 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 — 5,835 ratings
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Summer of '49
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4.11 avg rating — 10,045 ratings
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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4.29 avg rating — 5,759 ratings
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The Brothers K
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4.39 avg rating — 17,095 ratings
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The Art of Fielding
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3.99 avg rating — 116,172 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.05 avg rating — 11,523 ratings
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Men at Work
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3.93 avg rating — 6,042 ratings
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October 1964
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4.19 avg rating — 5,853 ratings
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Wait Till Next Year
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4.05 avg rating — 11,717 ratings
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The Summer Game
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4.28 avg rating — 2,239 ratings
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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
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4.26 avg rating — 5,959 ratings
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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4.12 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
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4.16 avg rating — 5,650 ratings
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The Card: A Van Stone Novel
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3.86 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
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4.08 avg rating — 6,960 ratings
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
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3.82 avg rating — 2,440 ratings
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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
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4.05 avg rating — 6,006 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 — 4,905 ratings
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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3.84 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
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4.10 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
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4.14 avg rating — 2,860 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 — 8,553 ratings
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The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
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4.04 avg rating — 5,188 ratings
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Calico Joe
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3.89 avg rating — 50,322 ratings
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Bang the Drum Slowly
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3.91 avg rating — 1,668 ratings
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If I Never Get Back
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4.07 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
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3.97 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
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4.07 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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3.82 avg rating — 5,542 ratings
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The Pitch That Killed
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4.26 avg rating — 945 ratings
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One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
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4.01 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
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3.98 avg rating — 7,020 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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4.10 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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4.42 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
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Cobb
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3.92 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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The Great American Novel
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3.60 avg rating — 2,788 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 — 2,288 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 — 1,966 ratings
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Last Days of Summer
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4.38 avg rating — 5,488 ratings
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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4.32 avg rating — 435 ratings
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A False Spring
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4.07 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
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4.05 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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I Was Right On Time
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4.34 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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The Celebrant
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4.11 avg rating — 563 ratings
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The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
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4.42 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Why Time Begins on Opening Day
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4.18 avg rating — 346 ratings
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A Pitch for Justice
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3.85 avg rating — 268 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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3.90 avg rating — 1,240 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 — 4,845 ratings
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The Wrong Stuff
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3.91 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Long Season
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3.92 avg rating — 535 ratings
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The Bronx Zoo
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3.97 avg rating — 1,847 ratings
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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
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4.09 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
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Summerland
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3.57 avg rating — 12,682 ratings
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The Physics of Baseball
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3.72 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Late Innings
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4.34 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets
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3.81 avg rating — 231 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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3.81 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
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3.56 avg rating — 2,643 ratings
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The Baseball 100
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4.73 avg rating — 4,825 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 — 779 ratings
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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4.17 avg rating — 1,202 ratings
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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
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3.95 avg rating — 3,031 ratings
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You Know Me Al
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3.80 avg rating — 942 ratings
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For Love of the Game
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3.93 avg rating — 1,783 ratings
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
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4.19 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
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4.10 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
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Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory
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4.14 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Ty Cobb
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3.87 avg rating — 632 ratings
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
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3.86 avg rating — 1,713 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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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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4.29 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
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4.15 avg rating — 1,940 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 — 3,883 ratings
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The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
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4.21 avg rating — 1,651 ratings
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
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4.20 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Bronx is Burning
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4.13 avg rating — 3,950 ratings
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I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
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4.17 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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You Gotta Have Wa
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3.96 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
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4.06 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Yankee Years
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3.88 avg rating — 8,610 ratings
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Game Time: A Baseball Companion – Roger Angell's Forty Years of Joyful Observations
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4.12 avg rating — 400 ratings
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The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers: From 1870 to Today
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4.28 avg rating — 268 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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3.78 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
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3.82 avg rating — 5,792 ratings
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Baseball: The Early Years
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4.09 avg rating — 127 ratings
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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
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4.29 avg rating — 3,081 ratings
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Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and Other Reflections on Baseball
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3.57 avg rating — 401 ratings
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A Day In The Bleachers
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4.29 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
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3.80 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
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3.87 avg rating — 4,061 ratings
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler (Mickey Tussler, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 174 ratings
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