Good books about baseball?
Jakt
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Anyone have any suggestions?
Some of my favorites have been:
Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump
Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman
Babe: A Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
Some of my favorites have been:
Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump
Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman
Babe: A Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
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Ted Williams by Leigh Montville
Joe Dimaggio by Richard Ben Cramer
Both are great reads. Very entertaining and well researched.
Luckiest Man: The life and death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig is also very good. Caution: (It will rip your heart out).
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Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
Heart of the Game: Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America -- S. L. Price
Imperfect: An Improbable Life -- Jim Abbott
I recommend
Ball Four
Why Time Begins on Opening Day
The Boys of Summer
The Politics of Glory
Summer of '41
The Catcher Was a Spy
Fear Strikes Out
Temporary Insanity
Only the Ball Was White
Men at Work
Veeck - As in Wreck
and I'll second the recommendation for The Glory of Their Times
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<< <i>Al Stump's book is a great read. Unfortunately, he made a lot of it up. >>
Is that documented?
an incredible collection of stories/players who one played ONE game in the majors
Shoeless Joe (they made Field of Dreams from this)
the movie was great, the book was better (because the James Earl Jones character is JD Salinger!)
1961, when I was 10 years old, was the first year that I
was into baseball and baseball cards. Of course, everyone
was all into the Yankees and the Mantle/Maris home run thing.
This book takes you into the clubhouse and on the field for
that year...
Sixty-One - The Team, The Record, The Men
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The first book about baseball and baseball cards I ever
read was "The Great American Baseball Card Flipping,
Trading And Bubble Gum Book". It is still the most
awesome book for bringing cardboard to life in a really
funny way...
The Great American baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubble Gum Book
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...and, of course, " The New Bill James Historical Baseball
Abstract" for everything baseball.
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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Moneyball
Living on the Black by John Feinstien
amazon living on the black
3 nights in August
larussa 3 nights in august
We read:
They were all great. Although, the Universal Baseball Assoc was differerent/weird...
The Celebrant was by far my favorite, and the ending of The Natural was completely different (if i remember correctly) than the movie.
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
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I really enjoyed reading this book. A lot of interesting stuff.
ALSO Ball Four by Jim Bouton
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The story of the 1908 National League season where the 3rd place team finished ( 1 ) game out . It was largely drawn from newspaper accounts and took a look at society as a whole , with the back drop being baseball .
A Catcher In The Wry by Bob Uecker is my all time favorite. If you've heard enough Brewers games you've heard a bunch of these stories, however there are a lot of older ones he doesn't tell anymore. It's a must read IMO.
He also apparently has a book called Catch .222 which I'm beginning to question if it was ever released or the print run was just incredibly short. I've yet to find a cover or any real information about it anywhere online. If anyone knows anything about this one, I'd love to hear about it.
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Ball Four (The first of its kind, just re-read it last year as it loosley ties in with Mint Condition)
The Boys of Summer
The Catcher Was a Spy
Odd Man Out
Bullpen Gospels (Been working on "Out of my League")
Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
Tales from the Dugout
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession (Not baseball but I learned quite a bit about the history of the hobby)
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
Pure Baseball - Keith Hernandez
Baseball and Billions - Andrew Zimbalist
The Summer Game - Roger Angell (an oldie but a goodie)
Clemente - David Maraniss
Joe DiMaggio - A Hero's Life - Richard Ben Cramer
What Ever Happened to the Hall of Fame? - Bill James
Red Legs and Black Sox - Susan Dellinger
Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox - Allan Wood
Crazy '08 - Cait Murphy
The Cubs if '69 - Rick Talley
The 26th Man - Steve Fireovid
The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. They were pure ballplayers, sluggers and sweet fielders who played with unbridled joy and breathtaking skill. .....................
No additions but I give my thanks to this thread. It is very useful and to be honest - having played so many years of baseball; and having been a passionate collector of baseball cards; and having been an avid reader my whole life I am quite stunned that I have NEVER read about baseball!
I will certainly begin to now.
Lots of different Armed Services books about baseball. Nice collectibles too!
<< <i>Another vote for "The Glory of their Times." >>
+1
<< <i>" The Unforgettable Season " -- G. H. Flemming
The story of the 1908 National League season where the 3rd place team finished ( 1 ) game out . It was largely drawn from newspaper accounts and took a look at society as a whole , with the back drop being baseball . >>
Crazy '08 covers this same season really well, too.
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The Big Bam (Babe Ruth) by Leigh Montville
Ted Williams: Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville
Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary
Living on the Black by John Feinstein
The Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell
One Pitch Away (1986 season) by Mike Sowell
Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams by Ed Linn
Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train by Henry Thomas
Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy
The Rocket That Fell to Earth (Roger Clemens) by Jeff Pearlman
Year of the Tiger (1968 Tigers) by Jerry Green
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
The Glory of their Times by Lawrence Ritter
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre
Ball Four by Jim Bouton
59 in '84 by Edward Achorn
I'm sure there's dozens of others I'm forgetting right now.
A book I really enjoyed about baseball the game, and not a particular person, team or time period. I know a lot of people don't find him to be a likeable guy, but reading the book I was surprised at how much I didn't know about the game. The book is a little old, so I can't say for sure if it is still current.