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Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1093 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 143,844 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 627 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,033 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,600 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 115,791 ratings — published 2011
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,947 ratings — published 1989
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 397 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,390 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 385 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,761 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,438 ratings — published 1963
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 316 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,836 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,906 ratings — published 2002
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 300 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 341,006 ratings — published 2023
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,749 ratings — published 1985
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,417 ratings — published 1952
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,590 ratings — published 2006
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,822 ratings — published 2016
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 280 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,955 ratings — published 2010
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,807 ratings — published 1994
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 4,600 ratings — published 2021
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,555 ratings — published 1997
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,021 ratings — published 1990
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
by (shelved 247 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,608 ratings — published 2019
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,941 ratings — published 2003
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 5,458 ratings — published 2023
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,896 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 — 3,778 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 — 4,291 ratings — published 2016
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 49,825 ratings — published 2012
3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,518 ratings — published 2005
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,265 ratings — published 2007
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,003 ratings — published 2014
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 221 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 289,724 ratings — published 2024
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 215 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,050 ratings — published 2017
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,226 ratings — published 1972
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,162 ratings — published 2010
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,059 ratings — published 2015
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,260 ratings — published 2010
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,885 ratings — published 2009
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,014 ratings — published 2010
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,563 ratings — published 2009
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,521 ratings — published 2010
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,928 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 — 5,752 ratings — published
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,452 ratings — published 2015
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,126 ratings — published 1962
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 3.78 — 3,873 ratings — published 2011
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,292 ratings — published 1985
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,235 ratings — published 1994
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,415 ratings — published 1986
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,923 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 — 2,172 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
“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
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