March 14, 201115 yr What are some of your favorite books about baseball? I haven't read that many but plan on changing that. Here are a few I enjoyed: Non-Fiction The Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle Miracle Over Miami: How the 2003 Marlins Shocked the World by Dan Schlossberg Fiction Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
March 14, 201115 yr The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime by Jason Turbow
March 14, 201115 yr Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof It's the book they based the movie on.
March 14, 201115 yr Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof It's the book they based the movie on. My favorite.
March 14, 201115 yr "Teammates"-David Halberstam "The Machine"-Joe Posnanski "The Bronx Zoo"-Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock "Ball Four"-Jim Bouton "The Echoing Green"-Joshua Prager
March 14, 201115 yr The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran by Dirk Hayhurst The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James S. Hirsch Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit by Matt McCarthy
March 14, 201115 yr Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
March 14, 201115 yr Anything by Bill James. I'm a nerd Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong by The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts and Jonah Keri
March 14, 201115 yr The Boys of Summer. I read it every spring to ring in baseball season. I'll probably pick it up in a week or so with the season starting in a few weeks.
March 14, 201115 yr I'have four Mickey Mantle books Reggie Jackson Lou Gehrig written by his wife 61 George Steinbrenner Bronz Zoo Guidrey Billy Martin Thurman
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