What's the best Baseball Book Fiction and Non you have read?

[Dewey]

Two year old thread bump.

Compiling my summer reading list. (I'm a teacher.) Came across this thread. Great suggestions. Just picked up Eig's book on Jackie Robinson's first season and Kinsella's Iowa's Baseball Conspiracy at a local used bookstore.

Recommend: A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Brothers K (not by Dostoevsky). Two great works of fiction tangentially related to baseball.

[VintageJay]

I'm surprised Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out hasn't been mentioned, though I guess some would have a problem choosing it as fiction or non-fiction.

The Glory of Their Times was edited more than written by Lawrence Ritter, so I would go with Jonathan Eig's "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig" as the greatest non-fiction work that I have ever read.
Eig's book on Capone is also well researched.

[egri]

If murder mysteries are your thing, I recommend the Mickey Rawlings series by Troy Soos. They're set around the end of the Dead Ball era/beginning of the live ball era. Soos does a great job of recreating the time period.