Thread: OT: Any Suggestions on Good Baseball Book to ask For
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Old 11-16-2012, 08:02 AM
Gr8Beldini Gr8Beldini is offline
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If you're looking for history of the game, I would stay away from most biographies. I would recommend:
  1. Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (People think of Bill James as nothing but a stats guy but he is a great writer)
  2. The Era by Roger Kahn (Baseball in New York 1947 - 1956; one of the great underrated sports books of all-time)
  3. Lords of the Realm (history of Baseball labor relations - very interesting).
  4. Whatever Happened to the Baseball Hall of Fame by Bill James (also known as the Politics of Glory).
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