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10 best books like Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero (Jeff Pearlman): Under the Baseball Moon, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game, Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box, Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever, The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played, Living on the Black, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
| Author | John H. Ritter |
| ISBN | 0399236236 |
Andy Ramos, a free-style skateboarding trumpeter, has dreams as big as a baseball moon. Born into a family of musicians, Andy wants to take his unique fusion of Latin jazz, rock, and hip-hop straight to the top. But when he crosses paths with Glory Martinez, a softball pitcher who has Olympian dreams...
Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend
| Author | James S. Hirsch |
| ISBN | 1416547908 |
A strong and well-constructed biography of one of the first black men integrated into the majors in early 1950s America, and more importantly to the man himself, one of the best players and nicest guys ever to play the game. Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend encompasses a great deal of this monumental...
The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
| Author | Frank Deford |
| ISBN | 0802142478 |
In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over...
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
| Author | Leigh Montville |
| ISBN | 0385514379 |
He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of...
Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
| Author | Daniel Okrent |
| ISBN | 0618056696 |
You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 -- inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, a seasoned writer and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee...
| Author | Eric Bronson |
| ISBN | 0812695569 |
Baseball and Philosophy brings together two high-powered pastimes: the sport of baseball and the academic discipline of philosophy. Eric Bronson asked eighteen young professors to provide their profound analysis of some aspect of baseball. The result offers surprisingly deep insights into this...
Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever
| Author | Tim Wendel |
| ISBN | 0306820188 |
The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season—when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin...
The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played
| Author | Tom Adelman |
| ISBN | 0316796441 |
The 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is generally considered the best of all time, and baseball historians often rank its sixth game as the greatest single game ever played. In this resoundingly acclaimed bestseller, Tom Adelman tells the story of the season that...
| Author | John Feinstein |
| ISBN | 0316113913 |
The moral of this story is: don't let someone writing a book (or filming, that's you San Francisco Giants) follow you around for the season. David Cone should have warned Glavine and Mussina.
Despite, or maybe because of, the two pitchers' trying seasons, I enjoyed reading their thoughtful...
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
| Author | Jonathan Eig |
| ISBN | 0743294602 |
The baseball hot stove season has arrived. With darkness setting in just after five where I live and a dusting of snow on the ground, I find myself pining for spring and the game I love most. This year (2019) marks the 100th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s birth on January 31, 1919. Major League Baseball...
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
| Author | Joe Posnanski |
| ISBN | 0061582565 |
Award-winning sports columnist Joe Posnanski hits a grand slam with The Machine—a thrilling account of the magical 1975 season of the Cincinnati Reds, baseball’s legendary “Big Red Machine,” from spring training through the final game of the ’75 World Series. Featuring a Hall of Fame...
The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923
Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't...
I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
| Author | Hank Aaron |
| ISBN | 0061099562 |
Henry Aaron left his mark on the world by breaking Babe Ruth's record for home runs. But the world has also left its mark on him. "Hammering Hank" Aaron's story is one that tells us much about baseball, naturally, but also about our times. His unique, poignant life has made him a symbol for much of the social...
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game Is Played
| Author | Bob Gibson |
| ISBN | 0385528698 |
Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.
Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored.
Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the...
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
| Author | Buster Olney |
| ISBN | 0060515074 |
For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues.
For...
Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
| Author | Allen Barra |
| ISBN | 0393062333 |
The gripping biography of the legendary Hall-of-Famer and one of the most quotable figures in American culture.
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history, and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the...
The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card
| Author | Michael O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 0061123927 |
Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors...
| Author | Pete Rose |
| ISBN | 1579549276 |
PETE ROSE HOLDS MORE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS THAN ANY OTHER PLAYER IN HISTORY. He stands alone as baseball's hit king having shattered the previously "unbreakable" record held by Ty Cobb. He is a blue-collar hero with the kind of old-fashioned work ethic that turned great talent into legendary...
From Babe Ruth to Bo Jackson, from Cool Papa Bell to Lou Brock, Buck O'Neil has seen it all. As a first baseman and then manager of the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, O'Neil witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise.
In I Was Right on Time, he charmingly recalls his days as...
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and Other Reflections on Baseball
| Author | George F. Will |
| ISBN | 0684853744 |
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood ("Dred...
ESPN: The Uncensored History
| Author | Michael Freeman |
| ISBN | 0878332707 |
ESPN: The Uncensored History traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching more than 60 million homes via more than 26,000 cable providers. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, ESPN, has blazed a stunning path of achievement...
Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment
| Author | Bruce Feldman |
| ISBN | 0451215265 |
One team. One Dynasty. One book that goes inside the legend.
Features a new chapter on the 2004-05 season-and 8 pages of photographs.
When fans think of college football, they think of Miami-the cool school with street cred that all the kids dream of playing for. A sports powerhouse...
The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.
Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted...
| Author | Mickey Mantle |
| ISBN | 0385194560 |
Mickey Mantle a small town boy from Oklahoma, had more speed than Ty Cobb and as much power as Babe Ruth( an unmatched combo in history). But riotious living,(he didn't think he'd live to see 40, like his father and uncles who died young) and injuries, caused this hall of famer not to reach his full potential.Casey...
