Moneyball
2003 · 320 pages
Oakland spent a third of what the Yankees spent and won as many games, buying the hitters scouts despised. Every team in baseball now runs on the arithmetic Lewis watched Billy Beane use.
★ 4.8
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Ball Four
The Final Pitch
1970 · 540 pages
A knuckleballer hanging on with an expansion team, Bouton kept a diary of the 1969 season and put in the amphetamines, the womanizing, and Mantle drunk. Baseball's commissioner demanded he call it fiction.
★ 5.5
The Boys of Summer
1972 · 474 pages
Two decades after covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for a newspaper, Kahn found the same men in middle age, one paralyzed. What began as a baseball book becomes an elegy for everyone's youth.
★ 6.4