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At Fenway:

Dispatches from Red Sox Nation

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9.6
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  • 2

    The Joy of Keeping Score:

    How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
    (Harvest Book)

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    9.5
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  • 3

    Men at Work:

    The Craft of Baseball

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    9.5
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  • 4

    The Dodgers Encyclopedia

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    9.4
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  • 5

    The Commissioners:

    Baseball's Midlife Crisis

    Current rating
    9.3
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  • 6

    Legal Bases:

    Baseball and the Law

    Current rating
    9.3
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  • 7

    Baseball:

    An Illustrated History

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    9.3
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  • 8

    Voices from Cooperstown:

    Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was

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    9.0
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  • 9

    The Tigers of '68:

    Baseball's Last Real Champions

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    9.0
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  • 10

    The Glory of Their Times:

    The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

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    8.8
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  • 11

    The Boys of Summer

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    8.7
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  • 12

    Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame:

    The Official Companion to the Collection at Cooperstown

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    8.7
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  • 13

    The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers from 1870 to Today

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    8.6
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  • 14

    Baseball's Golden Age:

    The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon

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    8.6
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  • 15

    The Sports Encyclopedia:

    Baseball
    (18th Ed)

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    8.4
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  • 16

    The Jackie Robinson Reader:

    Perspectives on an American Hero

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    8.4
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  • 17

    Memories of Summer:

    When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game

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  • 18

    Epic Season:

    The 1948 American League Pennant Race

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    8.3
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  • 19

    Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?:

    Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory

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    8.2
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  • 20
    Bringing the Heat; The Autobiography of Milt Pappas

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    8.0
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