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Updated December 8, 2025
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The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
John W. Miller
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "" open="">* A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 "Baseball books don't get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due." --George F. Will "Vivid...Most sports books are...
Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
Will Bardenwerper
Paper Book
A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America-written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in...
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Daniel Light
Paper Book
Whether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters--conquistadors and...
Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk
Mike Sielski
Paper Book
"Who doesn't wanna read an entire book about the slam dunk? I love basketball." - Ann Patchett "The definitive dunking dissertation." - Jack McCallum, Wall Street Journal From the author of the bestselling Kobe Bryant biography The Rise comes the legend...
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Ledecky, Katie,
A New York Times bestselling memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and the most decorated US female Olympian in history: Katie Ledecky. Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a four-time Olympian, a nine...
Death of a Racehorse: An American Story
Katie Bo Lillis
Named one ofFinancial Times's Best Books of 2025 The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport--horseracing--and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game. Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why?
The Broken King
Michael Thomas
Paper Book
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 "There's a bridge of beautiful American prose--lyrical, powerful, fearlessly candid--running straight from James Baldwin to Thomas, who is obviously Baldwin's worthy heir . . . An utterly immersive book."--Francisco...
The Dad Coach: How to Lead Kids to Succeed On and Off the Baseball Field
Mike Matheny
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Mike Matheny offers the definitive guide to coaching youth baseball and instilling positive values on and off the field. In 2009, former manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Mike Matheny penned a strongly worded letter urging parents and...

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