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If you loved Ballplayer by Chipper Jones, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Essays & Writings, Baseball, Sports, and Sports & Recreation.

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It’s Only Me The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew — John Underwood

It’s Only Me The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

CenterStage My Most Fascinating Interviews—from A-Rod to Jay-Z — Michael Kay

CenterStage My Most Fascinating Interviews—from A-Rod to Jay-Z

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Machine A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds — Joe Posnanski

The Machine A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

They Bled Blue Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers — Jason Turbow

They Bled Blue Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Man in the Dugout Baseball’s Top Managers and how They Got that Way — Leonard Koppett

The Man in the Dugout Baseball’s Top Managers and how They Got that Way

Leonard Koppett

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Winning Fixes Everything How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess — Evan Drellich

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

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Bigger Than the Game Restitching a Major League Life — Dirk Hayhurst

Bigger Than the Game Restitching a Major League Life

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Phenomenon Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life — Rick Ankiel

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

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness — Buster Olney

The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

A Pitcher’s Story Innings with David Cone — Roger Angell

A Pitcher’s Story Innings with David Cone

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Aaron Judge The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees’ Home Run–Hitting Phenom — David Fischer

Aaron Judge The Incredible Story of the New York Yankees’ Home Run–Hitting Phenom

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Charlie Hustle The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball — Keith O’Brien

Charlie Hustle The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball — Keith O’Brien

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Sports Illustrated the New York Mets At 60 Celebrating Six Decades of Amazin’ Baseball — Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated the New York Mets At 60 Celebrating Six Decades of Amazin’ Baseball

Sports Illustrated

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Pinstripes by the Tale Half a Century in and Around Yankees Baseball — Marty Appel

Pinstripes by the Tale Half a Century in and Around Yankees Baseball

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams A Library of America Special Publication — John Updike

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams A Library of America Special Publication

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

My Turn at Bat The Story of My Life — Ted Williams

My Turn at Bat The Story of My Life

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Out of My League The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball — George Plimpton

Out of My League The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball

George Plimpton

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

A Day of Light and Shadows One Die-Hard Red Sox Fan and His Game of a Lifetime: The Boston-New York Playoff 1978 — Jonathan Schwartz

A Day of Light and Shadows One Die-Hard Red Sox Fan and His Game of a Lifetime: The Boston-New York Playoff 1978

Jonathan Schwartz

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Shohei Ohtani The Amazing Story of Baseball’s Two-Way Japanese Superstar — Jay Paris

Shohei Ohtani The Amazing Story of Baseball’s Two-Way Japanese Superstar

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Baseball 100 — Joe Posnanski

The Baseball 100

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Long Season The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959 — Jim Brosnan

The Long Season The Classic Inside Account of a Baseball Year, 1959

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The Tao of the Backup Catcher Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game — Tim Brown

The Tao of the Backup Catcher Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

The James Naismith Reader Basketball in His Own Words — James Naismith

The James Naismith Reader Basketball in His Own Words

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

Heart of the Game Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America — S.L. Price

Heart of the Game Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America

Themes: Essays & Writings • Baseball • Sports

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Ballplayer by Chipper Jones — spanning Essays & Writings, Baseball, Sports and featuring authors such as John Underwood, Michael Kay, Joe Posnanski, Jason Turbow, and others.

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