Books on baseball history..

bigwilli

Can anyone recommend some really good books on old time baseball . I dont wanna read all about Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle and
those guys , i know alot about them already . Im talking about Joe Jackson , Cap Anson , Christy Matthewson and some of the other great players who arent always mentioned in most books .

PoppaJ

Hi Keith,

One of my favorites is a book, both authored by and about Cap Anson, titled "A Ball Player's Career".

PoppaJ

lsutigers1973

The Baseball Chronicle

Kind of Cliff Notes version of baseball history from the 1800's. Starts year by year headlines with 1901 and goes all the way up to 2007. Really cool book with lots of pics and stats for each year with quite a few storylines for each year.

thekid8

2 great books that i read several years ago

Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms:
by Elden Auker and Tom Keegan

Great old stories from a former Tigers pitcher Elden Auker

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BANANA BATS AND DING-DONG BALLS
by Dan Gutman

About all the odd stuff that baseball has tried over the years


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MooseDog

Check out my thread on the Buy-Sell-Trade board. I run a non-profit Friends of the Library sale and am listing our sports books over there.

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=684100

JVette

While not in the era you mentioned, if you would like a fun, inside look at baseball from the last owner that actually made his living from his baseball team (rather than a gazillionaire with a toy), I highly recommend Veeck as in Wreck. It's a great glimpse of how baseball was run during the golden age.

Enjoy!! - Jack

cwazzy

Glory of Their Times. Great book!

Chris

judgebuck

I agree, Glory of Their Times, by Lawrence Ritter (I believe) and also Baseball As I Have Know It, by Fred Lieb. If I remember correctly, Lieb was a sports journalist who lived through the old days and then wrote this book years ago.

rube26105

joe o is putting out a book

Ladder7

Agreed, GoTT is excellent. Also, Henry Yee's book on photography (free with Collectors Club membership )would be a good comapanion to it. Steve

mrpeanut39

I'll chime in with another vote for Glory of Their Times. Also, maybe not from the era you're looking for but Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer about the 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers and Summer of 49 (about the Sox/Yanks pennant race) and October 1964 (about the Cards/Yanks WS and decline of the Yanks) both by David Halberstam are also good reads.

brian26

<< <i>While not in the era you mentioned, if you would like a fun, inside look at baseball from the last owner that actually made his living from his baseball team (rather than a gazillionaire with a toy), I highly recommend Veeck as in Wreck. It's a great glimpse of how baseball was run during the golden age.

Enjoy!! - Jack >>



It's a phenomenal book that I was also going to recommend. It's just a great glimpse into the politics of baseball through the 40's and 50's. You will really enjoy it!