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
Keith Law
Published 2017
304 pages
The most popular baseball books
Baseball books celebrate a game rich in stories and statistics. Great players, historic seasons, famous ballparks and the numbers behind winning are all here. The sport has inspired some of the best sports writing there is, so these books reward even casual fans.
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The MVP Machine How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik
Published 2019
384 pages
You Can't Make This Up
Al Michaels, L. Jon Wertheim
Published 2014
304 pages
The Closer
Mariano Rivera, Wayne R. Coffey
Published 2014
288 pages
The Catcher Was a Spy The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
Nicholas Dawidoff
Published 1995
480 pages
Brothers at Bat The True Story of an Amazing All-brother Baseball Team
Audrey Vernick
Published 2012
39 pages
The Best Team Money Can Buy The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse
Molly Knight
Published 2015
336 pages
Veeck As In Wreck The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
2001 · 2012 edition
400 pages
Bottom of the 33rd Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Dan Barry
Published 2011
272 pages
Big Data Baseball Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
Travis Sawchik
Published 2015
242 pages
Crazy '08 How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
Cait Murphy
Published 2007
384 pages
The Big Bam
Leigh Montville
Published 2006
400 pages
The Summer Game
Roger Angell
1972 · 1990 edition
303 pages
Football for a Buck The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
Jeff Pearlman, Joel Richards
Published 2018
366 pages
About My Mother True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother
Peggy Rowe
Published 2018
171 pages
Lore of Running
Timothy Noakes
1991 · 2003 edition
931 pages
Savage Summit The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
Jennifer Jordan
Published 2005
303 pages
The Last Folk Hero The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
Jeff Pearlman
Published 2022
484 pages
Watching Baseball Smarter A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
Zack Hample
Published 2007
272 pages
Stealing Home Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
Eric Nusbaum
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
I Never Had it Made An Autobiography
Jackie Robinson
Published 1995
275 pages
The Captain The Journey of Derek Jeter
Ian O'Connor
Published 2011
400 pages
The Last Hero A Life of Henry Aaron
Howard Bryant, Dominic Hoffman
Published 2010
600 pages
Why We Love Baseball A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski
2023 · 2025 edition
416 pages