Best books about baseball.

[formerkywrestler]

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

[mexitucky]

Anything by Bill James. I'm a nerd

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime by Jason Turbow

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof

 

It's the book they based the movie on.

[spindoc]

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.

[Mack The Knife]

"Teammates"-David Halberstam

"The Machine"-Joe Posnanski

"The Bronx Zoo"-Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock

"Ball Four"-Jim Bouton

"The Echoing Green"-Joshua Prager

[Clyde]

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

[Clyde]

"Teammates"-David Halberstam

"The Machine"-Joe Posnanski

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Two great reads.

[Clyde]

October 1964 by David Halberstam

 

Summer of '49 by David Halberstam

[Clyde]

Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump

 

 

Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer

[Clyde]

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

[Clyde]

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

[MJAlltheWay24]

I enjoyed, "My Prison Without Bars" about Pete Rose.

[HT721]

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.

[Alabama Larry]

I'have four Mickey Mantle books

 

Reggie Jackson

 

Lou Gehrig written by his wife

 

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George Steinbrenner

 

Bronz Zoo

 

Guidrey

 

Billy Martin

 

Thurman