Sports Recreation Books – Baseball

Top 10 Best Selling Sports & Recreation Books – Baseball

1. Three Nights in August Buzz Bissinger Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 108 Starred Review. Bissinger eschews the usual method of writing about baseball in the context of a season or a career, choosing instead to dissect the game by carefully watching one three-game series between the Cardinals... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(21) 2. Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers Thomas Oliphant Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 279 Driving over a bridge on an Indiana highway named after Hodges, a star first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, sets off a chain of memories from the Dodgers' only World Series victory for Oliphant. His memoir's... more Product Information  |  Editorials(0)  |  Customer Reviews(5) 3. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 329 Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional... more Product Information  |  Editorials(16)  |  Customer Reviews(57) 4. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig Jonathan Eig Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 734 Lou Gehrig started his professional baseball career at a time when players began to be seen as national celebrities. Though this suited charismatic men such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, Gehrig avoided the spotlight... more Product Information  |  Editorials(10)  |  Customer Reviews(28) 5. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 1010 Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional... more Product Information  |  Editorials(16)  |  Customer Reviews(57) 6. Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart and Finally Won a World Series Steve Goldman, Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts Rank: 2393 The Red Sox finally did it. By making decisions that other clubs would not have made and using talent that other clubs ignored or lacked the statistical understanding to perceive, the new, focused Red Sox management built... more Product Information  |  Editorials(1)  |  Customer Reviews(0) 7. Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season Stewart O'nan, Stephen King Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 3494 Fans watching the 2004 baseball playoffs were often treated to shots of Stephen King sitting in the stands, notebook in hand. Given the bizarre events on the field, from the Red Sox's unprecedented comeback against their... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(58) 8. License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent Jerry Crasnick Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 3539 Matt Sosnick co-runs a small California agency representing nine major league baseball players, including All-Star pitcher Dontrelle Willis. Crasnick, a baseball writer for ESPN.com, spent months at Sosnick's side, watching... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(6) 9. The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics Alan Schwarz Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 2874 Sports journalist Schwarz brings to the fore this intelligent, smartly researched and often hilarious look at the use of statistics in baseball, which Schwarz definitively shows to "date back to the game's earliest days... more Product Information  |  Editorials(2)  |  Customer Reviews(15) 10. Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball Howard Bryant Rank: 4139 Starred Review. The title suggests an exposé of baseball's steroid problem, but that's merely the surface layer of Bryant's pervasive critique of how the sport has changed over the past decade. After professional... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(0)

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