The Best MLB Fan Shop 2025

1. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, (Hardcover)

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it--before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities--his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission--but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers--numbers!--collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors. What these geek numbers show--no, prove--is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers --with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to--and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win... how can we not cheer for David?

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, (Hardcover) Author: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393057652 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 2003-06-17 Page Count: 304

2. MLB 2002 PSX

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Master ultimate control gameplay, total control pitching, batting and fielding Play 8 different game modes, including franchise, spring training, home run derby and more Catch all the action with Vin Scully and Dave Campbell and new camera angles, play-by-play and commentary Put yourself in the show with detailed player models and stadiums

3. Angels (Paperback)

After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film folk, pitching scripts, even experimenting with sex -- and discovering that the end of a marriage is not the end of the world.

Angels (Paperback)

4. McFarlane MLB Sports Picks Series 8 Alex Rodriguez Action Figure (Blue Jersey)

ALEX RODRIGUEZ McFARLANE?S SPORTS PICKS: MLB BASEBALL SERIES 8. Alex Rodriguez, Texas Rangers SS, No. 3.

ALEX RODRIGUEZ McFARLANE?S SPORTS PICKS: MLB BASEBALL SERIES 8. Alex Rodriguez, Texas Rangers SS, No. 3.

5. All-Star Baseball 2000

All Star Baseball 2000 Game Boy Color

Teams and players from the 1999 season,variety of gameplay modes,manual and automatic fielding,password save,play with the best players in the All-Star Game

6. All-Star Baseball 2002 GameCube Complete

Title - All-Star Baseball 2002 Format - GameCube Condition - Used Condition Notes - Item is tested and working, light wear Please refer to the condition description for more information. All items shipped media mail with tracking. Please note that this listing may use a stock image, and the item may be slightly different, though in similar condition, to the one pictured. All items are guaranteed to work, however CD-Keys and Digital Download Coupons may not be valid. Additionally, each game may only run on certain systems that meet their requirements, may no longer be supported by their publisher, or require additional software or subscriptions in order to play. We are not responsible in such an event.

7. Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest

Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest Game Boy Color

From the Manufacturer Step up to the plate! Baseball on the Game Boy System has never been better.Dazzling cinematic sequences add excitement to spectacular plays while a special display mode lets you see hundreds of colors on the screen at the same time.

8. Cincinnati and the Big Red Machine, (Paperback)

" . . . this is the history of a surprisingly fascinating symbiosis, of as much interest to social historians as to baseball fans." --Publishers Weekly " . . . a sound account of a baseball team's place in the life of a community . . . effectively focused on the most exciting era of a club that has meant so much to so many people." --Greensboro (NC) News & Record "Any baseball buff will enjoy this entertaining look at the hey-day of the Big Red Machine." --Monterey (CA) Herald In interviews with players, including Bench, Rose, Concepcion, Perez, manager Sparky Anderson, journalists, owners, and civic leaders, Walker reveals what it is that defines the Reds, and what Cincinnati as a city represents.

Cincinnati and the Big Red Machine, (Paperback) Author: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253213709 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1988-07-22 Page Count: 158

9. Jeter/Garciaparra MLB Sports 2-Pack

6-inch articulated figures, sculpted in realistic poses on the field

6-inch articulated figures Both figures stand in realistic poses on the field Players dressed in team uniforms

10. Sports Picks MLB Jeff Bagwell

6-inch collectible figure, stands in a realistic pose on the field

6-inch collectible figure Articulated for realistic look Dressed in team uniform Stands in classic pose on field