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Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1128 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 149,043 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,675 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,984 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 471 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,219 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,199 ratings — published 1982
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 421 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,433 ratings — published 1989
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,973 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,697 ratings — published 1963
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 360 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 468,946 ratings — published 2023
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 331 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,065 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,079 ratings — published 2002
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,773 ratings — published 1985
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,747 ratings — published 2006
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,790 ratings — published 1952
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 5,235 ratings — published 2021
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 299 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,029 ratings — published 2016
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,147 ratings — published 2010
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,423 ratings — published 2023
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 278 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 410,840 ratings — published 2024
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,935 ratings — published 1994
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,125 ratings — published 1997
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,778 ratings — published 2019
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,094 ratings — published 1990
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,059 ratings — published 2005
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,094 ratings — published 2003
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,801 ratings — published 2006
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,541 ratings — published 2016
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,627 ratings — published 2005
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,406 ratings — published 2012
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,189 ratings — published 2014
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,316 ratings — published 2007
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,274 ratings — published 1972
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 221 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,166 ratings — published 2017
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,170 ratings — published 2015
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,965 ratings — published 2009
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,221 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,334 ratings — published 2010
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,696 ratings — published 2009
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,057 ratings — published 2010
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 192 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,140 ratings — published
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,060 ratings — published 2019
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,587 ratings — published 2010
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,176 ratings — published 1962
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,516 ratings — published 2015
The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,901 ratings — published 2011
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,328 ratings — published 1994
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,341 ratings — published 1985
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,995 ratings — published
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,481 ratings — published 1986
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,215 ratings — published 2007
“I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.
I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.”
― Boy Toy
I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.”
― Boy Toy
“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckle ball come back to haunt him. In, out, up, down - not even the pitcher, much much less the batter, knew which way it would break. He kept swinging and missing.”
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