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Updated March 9, 2026
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Homegrown how the Red Sox built a champion from the ground up
Speier, Alex.
Paper Book
"Alex Speier spins a compelling narrative about how great scouting and player development created a perennial contender in baseball's toughest division, without losing sight of the people at the heart of his story." -- Keith Law The captivating inside story of the...
Charlie Hustle : the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball
O'Brien, Keith
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures-baseball immortal Pete Rose-and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century ....
Kings and pawns : Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
Bryant, Howard
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "I loved this book.... I looked forward to [it] more than any other in a long time, and Howard Bryant exceeded my great expectations. Kings and Pawns is brilliantly conceived and powerfully written." -- David Maraniss, author of Path Lit by Lightning...
Son of Havana : A Baseball Journey from Cuba to the Big Leagues and Back
Tiant, Luis
Ebook
A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro's Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel...
MVP Machine : How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
Lindbergh, Ben
Paper Book
Move over, Moneyball―this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players. "A convincing, and faith-restoring, case that genuine, unadulterated miracles...
The baseball 100
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." --New York Post * "Stellar." --The Wall Street Journal * "A true masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." --BookPage...
K : a history of baseball in ten pitches
Kepner, Tyler (Baseball writer)
Paper Book
The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down...
Making my pitch : a woman's baseball odyssey
Borders, Ila Jane
Paper Book
Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's...
Play hungry : the making of a baseball player
Rose, Pete
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered records that were thought to be...
Infinite baseball : notes from a philosopher at the ballpark
No??, Alva, author.
Paper Book
Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's...
Why we love baseball : a history in 50 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
THE BASEBALL 100 was about the top 100 baseball players. Joe Posnanski's next book is about the top 50 moments. Willie Mays's catch. Babe Ruth's called shot. Kirk Gibson's limping home run. BUT - each moment will be told from a unique perspective. That of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher...
Swing kings : the inside story of baseball's home run revolution
Diamond, Jared
Paper Book
"The best baseball book I've read in years." -- Sam Walker * "An exhilarating story of innovation."  -- Ben Reiter * "Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." -- Baseball Prospectus From the ...
Scouting and scoring : how we know what we know about baseball
Phillips, Christopher J.
Paper Book
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In...
Papi : my story
Ortiz, David
Paper Book
An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers and beloved personalities David "Big Papi" Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game.  As a key part of the Boston Red...
Ten innings at Wrigley : the wildest ballgame ever, with baseball on the brink
Cook, Kevin
Paper Book
The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, on the cusp of a new era in baseball history It was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody...
Our team : the epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball
Epplin, Luke
Paper Book
The riveting story of four men--Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige--whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not...
For the good of the game : the inside story of the surprising and dramatic transformation of Major League Baseball
Selig, Bud
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions...
The church of baseball : the making of Bull Durham : home runs, bad calls, crazy fights, big swings, and a hit
Shelton, Ron
Paper Book
LA TIMES BESTSELLER * From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking. "This book...
The grandest stage : a history of the World Series
Kepner, Tyler
Paper Book
From the New York Timesbestselling author of K- A History of Baseball in Ten Pitchescomes the ultimate history of the World Series-a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years...
Heavy hitter : a novel
Cotugno, Katie
Paper Book
The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Birds of California hits it out of the park with this smart, sexy, thrilling take on the celebrity-athlete story--a funny, sizzling, ripped-from-the-headlines sports romance between an international pop star and a major league baseball player who...

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