What's your favourite baseball book?

[SteveWhite]

Big Hair and Plastic Grass-A Funny Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70's
By Dan Epstein

The Machine-A Hot Team, A Legendary Season, and Heart-Stopping World Series. The Story of the 1975 Reds.
Joe Posnanski

[lampertb]

Originally Posted by SteveWhite

Big Hair and Plastic Grass-A Funny Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70's
By Dan Epstein

Yes, love that one, alongside "Talkin' Baseball: An Oral History of Baseball in the 1970s" by Phil Pepe.

I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned "56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports," which is an outstanding read!

[JimmyC]

Gosh, there are so many great books - I have over a hundred on the shelf…..hard to say which is the best…..sometimes I want stats and grab more stat related books and other times I want a deep dive into a specific player and will grab a book solely about a player and his career……

And then there are books like Roger Kahn’s “The Boys of Summer”…..just hard to beat that one….

[Seven]

I absolutely loved "The Last Boy" by Jane Leavy about Mickey Mantle. Shows all of Mantles demons, paints a complete picture of how messed up his childhood was, and how truly gruesome some of the things happened to him were, over the course of his life.

[insidethewrapper]

"Catcher" by Peter Morris. If you want to learn about the evolution of this position from the early days to present.

All Pete Morris books are great about the early days ( 19th Century).

I also liked "Miracle Ball". It was a page turner. Tells the story of what happened to the ball Bobby Thomson hit (the shot heard round the world ). I did have a lot of questions after reading this book. Anybody else read this book ?

[jimtigers65]

Originally Posted by SteveWhite

Big Hair and Plastic Grass-A Funny Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70's
By Dan Epstein

The Machine-A Hot Team, A Legendary Season, and Heart-Stopping World Series. The Story of the 1975 Reds.
Joe Posnanski

I enjoyed Big Hair and Plastic Grass by Dan Epstein that I ordered his other baseball book, Stars and Stipres.

[jwjohn06]

I found a book in a used bookstore many years ago called "Don't Let Baseball Die" by Art Hill. It focuses on the 1977 Detroit Tigers, but includes other stories as well. I truly think it is one of the best reads I ever read about baseball. It is soft cover and hard to find now, but definitely worth a look.

[JCM2009]

Ty Cobb by Charles Alexander

[JollyElm]

Is no one going to bring up the OP's use of the British spelling of "favourite"????

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Is no one going to bring up the OP's use of the British spelling of "favourite"????

All I am hearing is the sound of a cricket...bat.

Brian