Baseball, biography

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Familiar bookstore-style shelves, mostly fiction — a book may have none or several.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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171 books

Ball Four

Jim Bouton

1970 ★ 4.0

Who was Jackie Robinson?

Gail Herman

2011

Baseball's great experiment

Jules Tygiel

1983

Who was Babe Ruth?

Joan Holub

2012

Teammates

Peter Golenbock

1990

Juiced

Jose Canseco

2005

Power, Money & Sex

Deion Sanders

1998

The umpire strikes back

Ron Luciano

1982

Jackie Robinson

Kenneth Rudeen

1996 ★ 4.0

Catching the moon

Crystal Hubbard

2005

A Strong Right Arm

Michelle Y. Green

2002

Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!

Frank Murphy

2005

Clemente

David Maraniss

2006 ★ 4.3

The pitch that killed

Mike Sowell

1989

Jackie Robinson

April Jones Prince

2007

Joe DiMaggio

Richard Ben Cramer

2000

Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball

Jim O'Connor

1989

Stealing home

Barry Denenberg

1990

The William Hoy story

Nancy Churnin

2016

Joe & Marilyn

Roger Kahn

1986

Pedro

Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman

2015

Ty Cobb

Charles Leerhsen

2015

Lou Gehrig

David A. Adler

2001

Life is yours to win

Augie Garrido

2011

Doc

Dwight Gooden

2013

The wrong stuff

Lee, Bill

1984

The Story of Jackie Robinson

Margaret Davidson

1987

The Rocket That Fell to Earth

Jeff Pearlman

2009

Branch Rickey

Jimmy Breslin

2010

Barbed wire baseball

Yuko Shimizu, Marissa Moss

2013

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