I'm partial to this one, myself, but I may be a tad bit biased:

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Fiction - Shoeless Joe

Non-fiction - Spalding's World Tour

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I'm rather partial to this book, though I have to admit, I wrote, illustrated and designed it...

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I just finished listening to "The Glory of Their Times" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was fairly cheap on Audible and helped fill a few otherwise uneventful days of commuting.

It was great to hear several "old timers" being interviewed -- particularly Hans Lobert, Richard Marquard, and Fred Snodgrass.

Scott

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A wonderful book not just about baseball but about life in general and one of the finest people to have lived on this earth, Buck O'Neil. It's a book I'll probably pick up and reread passages from over time.

The O'Neil book is almost a collection of life changing parables, a collection of Buck's baseball stories intertwined with life lessons. A really good read is Montville's Williams book.You get into the mind and era of a great hitter.
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Another good book, at times myth busting, attempts at redemption, what could have been, colossal jerk...

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This one is GREAT.

Matt Christopher
 

A touch dated, but if anyone has any kids, when I was growing up I used to read every Matt Christopher book that was out there. Obviously, not age appropriate for us now, but if anyone has any kids, I loved that guy's stuff.

Though tangential in the theme of baseball, I still would have to second DeLillo's Underworld as the best. Or for a fiction book more baseball-centric, Bang the Drum Slowly.

"Fall From Grace" (Shoeless Joe Jackson)
 

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I just finished "Fall From Grace", Tim Hornbaker's new biography of Shoeless Joe Jackson and it's terrific. Highly recommended.