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Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1121 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 147,500 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 645 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,470 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 519 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,793 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 465 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,656 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,001 ratings — published 1982
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 411 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,123 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 398 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,915 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,621 ratings — published 1963
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 343 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 429,608 ratings — published 2023
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,991 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,020 ratings — published 2002
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,766 ratings — published 1985
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,696 ratings — published 2006
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,667 ratings — published 1952
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,967 ratings — published 2016
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,092 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 5,051 ratings — published 2021
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,901 ratings — published 1994
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,170 ratings — published 2023
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,932 ratings — published 1997
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 266 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 373,976 ratings — published 2024
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
by (shelved 259 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,728 ratings — published 2019
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,076 ratings — published 1990
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,057 ratings — published 2003
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,011 ratings — published 2005
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,797 ratings — published 2006
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,458 ratings — published 2016
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,874 ratings — published 2012
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,586 ratings — published 2005
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 — 2,306 ratings — published 2007
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 227 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,126 ratings — published 2014
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,260 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 218 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,135 ratings — published 2017
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,133 ratings — published 2015
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,200 ratings — published 2010
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,940 ratings — published 2009
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,307 ratings — published 2010
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,660 ratings — published 2009
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,016 ratings — published 2019
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,051 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 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,026 ratings — published
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,559 ratings — published 2010
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,158 ratings — published 1962
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,497 ratings — published 2015
The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,893 ratings — published 2011
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,321 ratings — published 1985
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,298 ratings — published 1994
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,971 ratings — published
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,465 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 — 2,205 ratings — published 2007
“No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.”
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“God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says.
'No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and listen to the drone of the crowd, as below me Shoeless Joe Jackson tenses, watching the angle of the distant bat for a clue as to where the ball will be hit.
'I think you're right, Joe,' I say, but softly enough not to disturb his concentration.”
― Shoeless Joe
'No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and listen to the drone of the crowd, as below me Shoeless Joe Jackson tenses, watching the angle of the distant bat for a clue as to where the ball will be hit.
'I think you're right, Joe,' I say, but softly enough not to disturb his concentration.”
― Shoeless Joe
