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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.

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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend

The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times) authorized, definitive, New York Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player of all time. Willie Mays i…

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

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Moneyball

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 ot…

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The Natural

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition

Introduction by Kevin Baker

The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would sa…

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A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of Why We Love Baseball After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 1…

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“If you build it, he will come.”

These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfield baseball diamond in honor of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is a rich, nostalgic look a…

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