Favorite baseball books...
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I realize this is off topic from the video game, but still about baseball. Recently, I've been reading great baseball books and was wondering if anybody had any good recommendations for others.
If any of you are avid baseball book readers, I highly recommend The Last Innocents about the Dodgers in the 60's or Yankees years by Tom Verducci about Joe Torre's era among others.
Suggestions?
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I don't read to many books, but I enjoyed "The Best Team Money can Buy" which is wild to think is about the 2016 dodgers, and now it's even more true now
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Best:
Ball Four (Bouton) - worth the hype
Moneyball (Lewis) - still can’t believe they were able to make a movie out of this.
Men at Work (Will)Worst:
Fair Ball (Costas) - In 2000, he predicted that the Twins and Royals would never again make the playoffs, much less win the World Series. -
Posnanski's 'The Baseball 100' and 'The Soul of Baseball' (Posnanski is my favorite sports-writer, fair warning)
Kahn's 'Boys of Summer' and 'The Head Game'
Mathewson's 'Pitching in a Pinch'
Lots of good biographies:
Hirsch's 'Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend'
Eig's 'The Luckiest Man' and 'Opening Day'
Jackie Robinson's 'I Never Had it Made'
Leavy's 'The Big Fella'
ESPN put together an oral history of integration in baseball about the years after Jackie called 'After Jackie' that's pretty good.
Jaffe's 'Cooperstown Casebook'
Law's 'Smart Baseball'I've got a couple of collections of early 20th century sports-writing that has some really great baseball essays/articles in them.
Any collection of 'Best Sportswriting in America' typically has good stuff.
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@ki113r-be3z_xbl said in Favorite base all books...:
Posnanski's 'The Baseball 100' and 'The Soul of Baseball' (Posnanski is my favorite sports-writer, fair warning)
Kahn's 'Boys of Summer' and 'The Head Game'
Mathewson's 'Pitching in a Pinch'
Lots of good biographies:
Hirsch's 'Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend'
Eig's 'The Luckiest Man' and 'Opening Day'
Jackie Robinson's 'I Never Had it Made'
Leavy's 'The Big Fella'
ESPN put together an oral history of integration in baseball about the years after Jackie called 'After Jackie' that's pretty good.
Jaffe's 'Cooperstown Casebook'
Law's 'Smart Baseball'I've got a couple of collections of early 20th century sports-writing that has some really great baseball essays/articles in them.
Any collection of 'Best Sportswriting in America' typically has good stuff.
I think I read a book by Posnanski about the Reds in the 70s. It was one of my favorite baseball books, I just couldn't remember his name. Both Rogers (Angel and Kahn) are fantastic as well. Tom Verducci does a great job of researching and then writing his stuff I'm a very prosaic almost poetic manner.
@SaveFarris_PSN , good call. Ball four is great, Bob Costas' book, not so much.
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The
SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400066514/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_GZGCHD38DV4D7B1RN69Q -
The Topps sticker magazine from the early 80s the year Rickey stole 130. Gary Gaietti was the Diaz sticker that year
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Two that I have always loved are the American League players of the Deadball era and the National League ballplayers of the deadball era.
Very nice pieces on mid tier players of those 2 decades
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My favorite baseball book is the scorebook.
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