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33 voters
Baseball Books
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Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1112 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 146,736 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 640 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,384 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 516 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,737 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 465 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,425 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,910 ratings — published 1982
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,083 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 — 5,882 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,577 ratings — published 1963
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 331 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 407,047 ratings — published 2023
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,952 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,994 ratings — published 2002
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,764 ratings — published 1985
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,679 ratings — published 2006
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,607 ratings — published 1952
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,936 ratings — published 2016
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,061 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 282 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 4,969 ratings — published 2021
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,875 ratings — published 1994
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,830 ratings — published 1997
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,025 ratings — published 2023
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,058 ratings — published 1990
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
by (shelved 257 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,704 ratings — published 2019
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 254 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 353,014 ratings — published 2024
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,040 ratings — published 2003
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,994 ratings — published 2005
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,790 ratings — published 2006
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 236 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,425 ratings — published 2016
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,610 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 — 8,570 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 — 2,298 ratings — published 2007
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,098 ratings — published 2014
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 — 3,114 ratings — published 2017
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,255 ratings — published 1972
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,117 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 — 5,192 ratings — published 2010
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 — 3,296 ratings — published 2010
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,928 ratings — published 2009
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,640 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 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,039 ratings — published 2010
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,998 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 186 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,969 ratings — published
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,152 ratings — published 1962
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,490 ratings — published 2015
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,314 ratings — published 1985
The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,891 ratings — published 2011
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,288 ratings — published 1994
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,954 ratings — published
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,452 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 3.77 — 2,196 ratings — published 2007












