So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets―the Best Worst Team in Sports is a baseball history like no other, covering the team that wins when they should lose and loses when they should win. There is no team quite like the Mets in
Wait Till Next Year is the story of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Brooklyn immigrant family and the role that baseball played in their lives in the 1940s and 50s, up until the Dodgers left Brooklyn. View on Amazon By the honor winning creator of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit,
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum is a story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. View on Amazon Dodger Stadium is an American symbol. The account of how it
The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell by Lonnie Wheeler is the first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer. View on Amazon James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903-1991) was a black baseball legend, a lightning fast switch hitter was elected to the National Baseball Hall
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller is the story of two statistics-minded outsiders taking over a professional baseball team and the results of that season. It’s a definitive in dream baseball: You
The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law is a ground-breaking book by one of baseball’s smartest writers. Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball.
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig is a comprehensive look at the 1947 season when Jackie Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball. It was a very important moment in baseball history and ultimately changed baseball forever. Author Jonathan Eig
The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik is a book about what teams will do to gain an edge in the post-Moneyball era. The time of noticing things that other teams don’t or better evaluating past performance is over. Developing players and making the most out of untapped
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a 2003 book by Michael Lewis. The book follows the 2002 Oakland Athletics season with a focus on the front office and their analytics based approach to building a baseball team. Moneyball was highly regarded at the time of its release
