Start with high-confidence baseball & softball books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Suckerpunch
David Hernandez
The Big Fella
Jane Leavy, Fred Sanders
QB 1
Mike Lupica
Swing
Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess
Boy21
Matthew Quick
Golden Arm
Carl Deuker
Out of Left Field
Ellen Klages
Mexican Whiteboy
Matt de la Peña
High Heat
Painting the Black
Curveball: the Year I Lost My Grip
Jordan Sonnenblick
Boy Toy
Barry Lyga
Payback Time
If You Can't Take the Heat
Dan Bittner, Michael Ruhlman
Press Play
Eric Devine
Growing Up Pedro
Matt Tavares
They Bled Blue
Jason Turbow
Dinged
Tommy Greenwald
The Right Call
Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown
Bill Madden
Futbolista
Jonny Garza Villa
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Bryan Hoch, Aaron Boone
The Passing Playbook
Isaac Fitzsimons