Books similar like The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self

The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times the salary of all NFL quarterbacks combined. Pitchers are the lifeblood of the sport, th…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life

Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.

The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation abili…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Power and the Glory

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.

Posnanski writes of major moments that created leg…

Buy this book on Amazon

Francona: The Red Sox Years

From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, perhaps the most scrutinized team in all of sports. During that time, every home game was a sellout. Every play, call, word, gesture—on th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Moneyball

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every ot…

Buy this book on Amazon

Business Is About to Pick Up!: 50 Years of Wrestling in 50 Unforgettable Calls

Experience 50 years of wrestling history through the iconic voice of Jim Ross.

For wrestling fans, Jim Ross’ voice is the soundtrack of an era. This book is your ringside ticket to wrestling’s most unf…

Buy this book on Amazon

Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx

Buy this book on Amazon

Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

Buy this book on Amazon

Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak

New York Times Bestseller

After twenty consecutive losing seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, team morale was low, the club's payroll ranked near the bottom of the sport, game attendance was down, and …

Buy this book on Amazon

They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived

Buy this book on Amazon

The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking

With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's al…

Buy this book on Amazon

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, th…

Buy this book on Amazon

Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage

Oooohhh yeahhhh! Macho The Life of Randy Savage is the sensational, definitive biography of the WrestleMania headlining, Spider-Man fighting, Slim Jim snapping, minor league baseball playing American …

Buy this book on Amazon

Not Our Daughter

Propelled on a cross-country chase, devoted parents become desperate fugitives in a heart-racing novel of suspense by the author of Family Money and All He Has Left.

Thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa S…

Buy this book on Amazon

Entrances and Exits

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius—the wa…

Buy this book on Amazon

Ten Days in a Mad-House

In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum for 10 days to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century century mental patients.

Buy this book on Amazon

Penguin Power: Dodger Blue, Hollywood Lights, and My One-in-a-Million Big League Journey

Buy this book on Amazon

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.

To be a books…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self

The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self similar books