Favorite baseball book? Card or historical focused.

[FrankWakefield]

Non Fiction

The Glory of Their Times, Ritter a prerequisite for even looking at this board
Basball When The Grass Was Real, Donald Honig a good followup to TGOTT
The Unforgetable Season, GH Fleming well written about 1908 pennant race
The Dizziest Season, GH Fleming about the 1934 pennant races
July 2, 1903, Mike Sowell Delehanty dies, origin of leagues and reserve clause
The Fix is In, Daniel Ginsburg MUST read to understand
The Pitch That Killed, Mike Sowell need to read this to understand Chapman Mays
Now Wait A Minute Casey, Allen Maury the 1962 Mets, and their troubles
Ball Four, Jim Bouton everyone here's read it

those are a good start


Fiction

The Celebrant, Eric Greensberg

[slipk1068]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Non Fiction

The Glory of Their Times, Ritter a prerequisite for even looking at this board
Basball When The Grass Was Real, Donald Honig a good followup to TGOTT
The Unforgetable Season, GH Fleming well written about 1908 pennant race
The Dizziest Season, GH Fleming about the 1934 pennant races
July 2, 1903, Mike Sowell Delehanty dies, origin of leagues and reserve clause
The Fix is In, Daniel Ginsburg MUST read to understand
The Pitch That Killed, Mike Sowell need to read this to understand Chapman Mays
Now Wait A Minute Casey, Allen Maury the 1962 Mets, and their troubles
Ball Four, Jim Bouton everyone here's read it

those are a good start


Fiction

The Celebrant, Eric Greensberg

I never read The Dizziest Season or The Celebrant, but this is an awesome list. The best baseball reading list I ever saw

The only book(s) I would add is/are The Fireside Book of Baseball any volume they are all great. It is all short stories fiction and non-fiction from the time period. Some of my favorites are Casey Stengal's Testimony before The US Senate, Vin Scully's call of the Sandy Koufax perfect game, Fiction by Ring Lardner including Horseshoes and Alibi Ike, a Heywood Broun newspaper article from 1923 about Babe Ruth in the World Series, and biographies about Satchel Paige and Peter Reiser.

[peterb69]

I just read “ Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball” and enjoyed it.

[Wanaselja]

Originally Posted by peterb69

I just read “ Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball” and enjoyed it.

It’s excellent. Sheds a lot of light on Doby’s experience which I’d never read about before.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by peterb69

I just read “ Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball” and enjoyed it.

I read it, and liked it a lot. I didn't know very much about the 1948 Indians before I read it, and it was a fun read.