Sports Recreation Books – Baseball

Top 25 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) 11. The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball Frank Deford Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 3149 At the turn of the 20th century, "every American could want to be Christy Mathewson," Deford writes, and "every American could admire John J. McGraw." For a generation of fans in the era before Babe Ruth, Giants pitcher... more Product Information  |  Editorials(6)  |  Customer Reviews(4) 12. Science of Hitting John Underwood, Ted Williams Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 4511 As a boy, all Ted Williams wanted was to be the best hitter there ever was. Through his storied tenure with the Red Sox, he pretty much got his wish. He not only hit, he knew how to hit; there was no keener, more devoted,... more Product Information  |  Editorials(5)  |  Customer Reviews(15) 13. Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life Michael Lewis Rating: 3.0/5 Rank: 3580 Lewis (Liar's Poker; Moneyball) remembers his high school baseball coach, Coach Fitz, a man so intense a room felt "more pressurized simply because he was in it." At the New Orleans private school Lewis attended in the late... more Product Information  |  Editorials(2)  |  Customer Reviews(14) 14. Sports Illustrated: Great Baseball Writing Editors Of Sports Illustrated Rank: 4315 When Sports Illustrated was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputable, the national pastime, its stars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology. As baseballs fortunes rose and fell over the next 50 years... more Product Information  |  Editorials(0)  |  Customer Reviews(0) 15. The Book on The Book: A Landmark Inquiry into Which Strategies in the Modern Game Actually Work Bill Felber Rank: 7087 Among the myriad accomplishments of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox was the elevation of the "stat geek" to near-deity ranking, the Sox having shrewdly hired Zen-master statistician Bill James following... more Product Information  |  Editorials(3)  |  Customer Reviews(0) 16. 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 Jeff Pearlman Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 16873 Drugs, sex and groupies abound in this book by Pearlman, a reporter for Newsday. Only the author isn't a rock critic chronicling the wild escapades of a band; he's describing the very successful 1986 season when the New York... more Product Information  |  Editorials(3)  |  Customer Reviews(28) 17. The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field And The Story Of The Brooklyn Dodgers Bob Mcgee Rank: 5424 "I’ve been in and around baseball for seventy years now and this undoubtedly is one of the finest books I’ve ever read. For a moment I thought I was sitting in Ebbets Field and was ready to order... more Product Information  |  Editorials(1)  |  Customer Reviews(0) 18. Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life Johnny Damon, Peter Golenbock Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 6623 Dear Baseball Fan:I know what you’re thinking: Couldn’t he have come up with a better title? My mother agrees with you, but unfortunately Genius just doesn’t have the same ring.Let’s get something... more Product Information  |  Editorials(1)  |  Customer Reviews(22) 19. Fastpitch Softball: The Windmill Pitcher Barry Sammons Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 10940 "The Windmill Pitcher is the most comprehensive book on fastpitch pitching that I have read. It is an excellent reference for both coaches and pitchers." -- Ernie Parker, world-renowned pitching coach "I now have... more Product Information  |  Editorials(1)  |  Customer Reviews(8) 20. Softball Skills & Drills Judi Garman Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 8241 Looking for the ultimate softball “how-to” book to help you learn and master the essential skills? Softball Skills & Drills covers all the essential fundamentals to build strong individual players... more Product Information  |  Editorials(2)  |  Customer Reviews(3) 21. Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager Buzz Bissinger Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 9458 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(2)  |  Customer Reviews(21) 22. The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics Alan Schwarz Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 9819 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(3)  |  Customer Reviews(15) 23. Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers Maury Allen Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 10259 In Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers, Allen has captured the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn Series... more Product Information  |  Editorials(1)  |  Customer Reviews(1) 24. The Natural Bernard Malamud, Kevin Baker Rating: 4.0/5 Rank: 10715 Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel... more Product Information  |  Editorials(10)  |  Customer Reviews(52) 25. Why Not Us?: The 86-year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans From Unparalleled Suffering To The Promised Land Of the 2004 World Series Leigh Montville Rating: 5.0/5 Rank: 22074 Adult/High School–The triumph of the Boston Red Sox in the autumn of the 2004 World Series leaped from the sports pages into the headlines. The longtime search of the Sox for that elusive victory had become part... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(3)

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