Beyond Belief Finding the Strength to Come Back
Josh Hamilton
2008 · 2010 edition
288 pages
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Francona The Red Sox Years
Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy
Published 2013
360 pages
The Soul of Baseball A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
Joe Posnanski
2008 · 2007 edition
288 pages
The Cubs Way
Tom Verducci
2017 · 2018 edition
400 pages
Joe DiMaggio
Richard Ben Cramer
Published 2000
546 pages
The Extra 2% How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
Jonah Keri
Published 2011
272 pages
Juiced Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
Jose Canseco
Published 2005
290 pages
Baseball Between the Numbers
Baseball Prospectus, Jonah Keri
Published 2006
496 pages
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty
Buster Olney
2004 · 2005 edition
384 pages
Straight Shooter
Stephen A. Smith
2023 · 2024 edition
288 pages
Loose Balls The Short, Wild Life of the Wild Life of the American Basketball Association - As Told by the Players, Coaches, and Movers and Shakers Who Made It Happen
Terry Pluto
1990 · 1991 edition
448 pages
Fantasyland A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball
Sam Walker
Published 2007
368 pages
The Arm Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Jeff Passan
Published 2016
376 pages
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
Jonathan Mahler
Published 2005
368 pages
Ted Williams
Published 2004
528 pages
Astroball The New Way to Win it All
Ben Reiter
2018 · 2019 edition
250 pages
The Baseball Codes Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-clearing Brawls
Jason Turbow
Published 2010
294 pages
Where Nobody Knows Your Name Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein
Published 2014
368 pages
Showboat The Life of Kobe Bryant
Roland Lazenby
2016 · 2019 edition
640 pages
Willie Mays
James S. Hirsch
Published 2010
640 pages
Three-Ring Circus Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Jeff Pearlman
2020 · 2021 edition
448 pages
SATCHEL
Larry Tye
Published 2009
416 pages
Babe The Legend Comes to Life
Robert W. Creamer
Published 1992
448 pages
The Baseball 100
Joe Posnanski
2021 · 2023 edition
880 pages