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Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1104 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 145,110 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 632 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,179 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,647 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,001 ratings — published 2011
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,982 ratings — published 1989
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 399 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,458 ratings — published 1982
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,801 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 377 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,496 ratings — published 1963
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,881 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,939 ratings — published 2002
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 312 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 362,801 ratings — published 2023
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,753 ratings — published 1985
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,482 ratings — published 1952
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,632 ratings — published 2006
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,865 ratings — published 2016
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,996 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 4,732 ratings — published 2021
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,837 ratings — published 1994
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,651 ratings — published 1997
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 253 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 5,656 ratings — published 2023
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,038 ratings — published 1990
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
by (shelved 250 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,644 ratings — published 2019
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,988 ratings — published 2003
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,938 ratings — published 2005
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,785 ratings — published 2006
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,352 ratings — published 2016
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 231 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 309,986 ratings — published 2024
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,155 ratings — published 2012
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,547 ratings — published 2005
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,042 ratings — published 2014
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,278 ratings — published 2007
Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,077 ratings — published 2017
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,236 ratings — published 1972
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,078 ratings — published 2015
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,179 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,265 ratings — published 2010
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,902 ratings — published 2009
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,018 ratings — published 2010
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,592 ratings — published 2009
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,533 ratings — published 2010
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,956 ratings — published 2019
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,837 ratings — published
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,136 ratings — published 1962
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,465 ratings — published 2015
The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,882 ratings — published 2011
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,296 ratings — published 1985
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,262 ratings — published 1994
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,431 ratings — published 1986
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,930 ratings — published
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,178 ratings — published 2007
“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini."
Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle, on which he had recently embarked. "Really?"
"Runners on first and second," Rick said. "I bet he wants you to bunt."
"What's the bunt sign?"
"Two tugs on the left earlobe," Henry told him. "But first he has to give the indicator, which is squeeze the belt. But if he goes to his cap with either hand or says your first name, that's the wipe-off, and then you have to wait and see whether--"
"Forget it," Owen said. "I'll just bunt.”
― The Art of Fielding
Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle, on which he had recently embarked. "Really?"
"Runners on first and second," Rick said. "I bet he wants you to bunt."
"What's the bunt sign?"
"Two tugs on the left earlobe," Henry told him. "But first he has to give the indicator, which is squeeze the belt. But if he goes to his cap with either hand or says your first name, that's the wipe-off, and then you have to wait and see whether--"
"Forget it," Owen said. "I'll just bunt.”
― The Art of Fielding
