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

[scotgreb]

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

[RTK]

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.

[RTK]

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.

[RTK]

Another good book, at times myth busting, attempts at redemption, what could have been, colossal jerk...

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by RTK

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.

This one is GREAT.

[Tennis13]

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.

[Louieman]

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.

[Tabe]

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