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MEWheat"Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History", by Cait Murphy. It was a well written book with a lot of interesting stories. I'd highly recommend that book.
I also enjoyed The audio version of "The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence Ritter. The audio version is supposed to include additional material not covered in the print version. It was enthralling listening to the old timers that played with Cobb & Mathewson tell their stories first hand. Ritter also asked a number of the players from the deadball era which pitcher was the hardest to hit against.....and most said Walter "Big Train" Johnson. That question was asked on the VBC Forum before...
Both are available from Amazon; I believe I downloaded the audio version of "The Glory of Their Times" directly from iTunes.