18 books
—
11 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Baseball Books
Showing 1-50 of 11,218
Moneyball (Paperback)
by (shelved 1122 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 148,315 ratings — published 2003
Ball Four (Paperback)
by (shelved 646 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,585 ratings — published 1970
The Boys of Summer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,888 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,916 ratings — published 2011
Shoeless Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 420 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,100 ratings — published 1982
Summer of '49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 417 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,293 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 407 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,946 ratings — published 1966
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,652 ratings — published 1963
Caught Up (Windy City, #3)
by (shelved 349 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.43 — 452,540 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 — 5,037 ratings — published 2007
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 325 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,055 ratings — published 2002
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,769 ratings — published 1985
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,731 ratings — published 2006
The Natural (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.61 — 12,726 ratings — published 1952
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,992 ratings — published 2016
The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 294 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.73 — 5,144 ratings — published 2021
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,120 ratings — published 2010
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.55 — 6,295 ratings — published 2023
October 1964 (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,923 ratings — published 1994
Play Along (Windy City, #4)
by (shelved 270 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.46 — 395,212 ratings — published 2024
Wait Till Next Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,021 ratings — published 1997
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Random House Large Print)
by (shelved 261 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,751 ratings — published 2019
Men at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,087 ratings — published 1990
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,033 ratings — published 2005
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,083 ratings — published 2003
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,799 ratings — published 2006
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,499 ratings — published 2016
Calico Joe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,181 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 — 8,605 ratings — published 2005
Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,149 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 — 2,309 ratings — published 2007
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 220 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,152 ratings — published 2017
The Summer Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,266 ratings — published 1972
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,157 ratings — published 2015
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,958 ratings — published 2009
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,208 ratings — published 2010
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,323 ratings — published 2010
The Yankee Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,679 ratings — published 2009
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,056 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 — 6,097 ratings — published
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 — 3,035 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 — 2,577 ratings — published 2010
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,167 ratings — published 1962
Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,507 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 — 3,901 ratings — published 2011
The Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,312 ratings — published 1994
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,327 ratings — published 1985
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as baseball)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,988 ratings — published
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,479 ratings — published 1986
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as baseball)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,209 ratings — published 2007
“Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
―
―
“DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman's son, could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond, if nowhere else, America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams.”
― Summer of '49
― Summer of '49
