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Talking Baseball with Major League Stars
by Wayne Stewart

Talking Baseball with Major League Stars explores a wide range of entertaining, timely, and illuminating topics about Major League Baseball-including cheating, intimidation, racism, and the players' biggest fears-through the words of the ballplayers themselves.
Why We Love Baseball : A History in 50 Moments
by Joe Posnanski

In this love letter to America's favorite pastime, a celebrated sportswriter showcases baseball's top 50 moments, told from a unique perspective, that are so powerful they almost feel like myth.
Comeback Season : My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players
by Cam Perron

An award-winning sports writer describes his teenage correspondences with several surviving former Negro League players, sharing remarkable career stories about how their days on the field were impacted by racism, the KKK and major league color barriers.
K : A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
by Tyler Kepner

A history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching draws on years of archival research and interviews with more than 300 star athletes to reveal the colorful stories and folklore behind 10 major pitches.
I Felt the Cheers : The Remarkable Silent Life of Curtis Pride
by Curtis Pride

On a September night in Montreal in 1993, Curtis Pride got his first Major League hit, prompting a long, emotional standing ovation from the crowd of 45,757 fans. Profoundly deaf since birth, Pride couldn't hear their thunderous applause. But as the cheers grew louder and more insistent, he realized he was feeling those vibrations within his chest-an undeniable acknowledgment of an extraordinary achievement. Pride went on to play in 420 more major-league games over eleven different seasons with the Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, and New York Yankees. 
Charlie Hustle : The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by Keith O'Brien

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling 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. 
The Yankee Way : The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era
by Andy Martino

With unprecedented inside access to the NY Yankees and featuring two years of exclusive interviews, an award-winning baseball journalist gives fans a rare view from the GM's seat, providing a definitive inside account of the most intriguing and storied franchise in Major League Baseball.
Baseball's Great Expectations : Candid Stories of Ballplayers who Didn't Live Up to the Hype
by Patrick Montgomery

Baseball's Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype-or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance.
The Streak : Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
by John Eisenberg

Discusses the historic, game-playing records by both Lou Gehrig and Cal Ripken Jr. and dissects who had the more difficult achievement through probing research, meticulous analysis and colorful parallel storytelling.