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Leave While the Party’s Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
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4.39 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
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Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
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Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America
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Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
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The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War
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Comeback Pitchers: The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn
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How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed
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3.70 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original
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The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932
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3.95 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Workingman's Game: Waverly, New York, the Twin Tiers and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1887–1898
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Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
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3.62 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Gehrig and the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud
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The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
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3.54 avg rating — 967 ratings
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Tom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox
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Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
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The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
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Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character
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4.16 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
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3.92 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
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4.12 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
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God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen
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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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The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend
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In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
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3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball
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4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees
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Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
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The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession
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Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life by Dennis Snelling (2014-04-18)
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The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
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The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
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3.97 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
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One Last Strike
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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
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Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
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Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball
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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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The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
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After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
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Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
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"The Father of Baseball": A Biography of Henry Chadwick
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Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
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Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
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Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line
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A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
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Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game
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The Origins And History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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When to Stop the Cheering?: The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
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Breaking Into Baseball
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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-And-Tumble Life Of A Baseball Legend
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The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball
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The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
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Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924
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The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour
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Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
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Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball
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The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81
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Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
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Before They Were Cardinals: Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis (Volume 1) (Sports and American Culture)
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Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian
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The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
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Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia
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Cy Young: A Baseball Life
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More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
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Lefty Grove: American Original
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Sunday at the Ballpark: Billy Sunday's Professional Baseball Career, 1883-1890 (American Sports History Series)
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Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants by Gabriel Schechter (2000-04-14)
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Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise
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The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws
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Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
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Chris Von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns
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A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward
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The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball
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Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball
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Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball
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Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870
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[Baseball's Radical for All Seasons: A Biography of John Montgomery Ward] (By: David Stevens) [published: January, 1999]
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The League That Failed
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Big Red Dynasty: How Bob Howsam & Sparky Anderson Built the Big Red Machine
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Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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New York Yankee Openers: An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-1996
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Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike "King" Kelly, Baseball's First Superstar (American Sports History Series)
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Honus Wagner: A Biography
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Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
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Creating the National Pastime Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953
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Rogers Hornsby: A Biography
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Great Time Coming: The Life Of Jackie Robinson From Baseball to Birmingham
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Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada
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The Beer and Whisky League: The Illustrated History of the American Association-Baseball's Renegade Major League
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Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
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