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The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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4.42 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
"Almost everything you need to know about the evolution of the modern era of the baseball business "
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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
"excellent material on the mid season 1981 strike"
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rated it 4 stars
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
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4.22 avg rating — 340 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 144,488 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Playing Around; The Million-Dollar Infield Goes to Florida
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
"Possibly the prototype of fantasy baseball camp"
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rated it 3 stars
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Out of Left Field
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
"This book has some great material on contract negotiations before free agency, Baseball Annies, and other off field hijinx "
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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 — 820 ratings
"valuable history of the evolution of the game"
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rated it 2 stars
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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 — 255 ratings
"Baseball's original drug scandal "
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rated it 4 stars
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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
"Outstanding book on baseball's roots, origins, and evolution"
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rated it 5 stars
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Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
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4.12 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
"Baseball's all time most colorful owner"
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rated it 5 stars
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.05 avg rating — 11,466 ratings
"Baseball's first great scandal "
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rated it 4 stars
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Ball Four
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4.05 avg rating — 21,110 ratings
"The first book to take us, uncensored, into the locker rooms, bar rooms, and off hours lives of ball players"
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rated it 5 stars
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Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
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4.31 avg rating — 429 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 — 762 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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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 — 229 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 — 86 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 Imperfect Diamond
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3.76 avg rating — 21 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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George Steinbrenner and the Yankees
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball
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4.02 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Branch Rickey
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3.42 avg rating — 617 ratings
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Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
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4.04 avg rating — 98 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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3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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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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rated it 4 stars
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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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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 — 239 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 — 2,455 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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