What's your favourite baseball book?

[ClementeFanOh]

The Black Prince of Baseball- Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella

The Boys of Summer- as mentioned, can't miss

59 in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season
a Pitcher Ever Had - Edward Achorn

All excellent! Trent King

[bnorth]

More about baseball cards.
Never Cheaper By The Dozen by fellow member Brian Powell
Unfortunately it is not available in actual book form. I know you can get a CD or a Kindle edition. I highly recommend it.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by bnorth

More about baseball cards.
Never Cheaper By The Dozen by fellow member Brian Powell
Unfortunately it is not available in actual book form. I know you can get a CD or a Kindle edition. I highly recommend it.

Another nice book written by a member is Mark Peavey's "A History of Baseball in the Deadball Era vol 1 1901-1905" Enjoyable read.

available on Amazon
https://smile.amazon.com/History-Bas...s%2C128&sr=8-2

[FrankWakefield]

The Book of Baseball, by Patten and McSpadden 1911


This book is tall and wide, not very thick... Imagine that someone clipped articles about baseball from newspapers from about 1908 through 1911, then put that together in an attempt to describe the players, teams, and the game just about spot on the same time as the T205s, T206s, and T207s were distributed. If you're a fan of those cards then contemplate getting one of these books. There's a Dover reprint of the book that I've yet to see; it's affordable. And then there's the original 110+ year old book that's a bit pricey.