Favorite baseball book? Card or historical focused.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Tabe

The members of the Baseball Books Facebook group recently completed their vote for the best baseball books of all-time and have published their results.

Spoiler: The #1 vote-getter was "The Glory of Their Times".

Members were asked to pick 20 titles and then the results compiled.

Here is the full spreadsheet of votes. If you're looking for books to read, this would be a great place to start.

Great list...I think one could work on reading the books on it for the rest of their lives. There are several hundred that I have never heard about. And I am glad that all types (fiction, biographical, history, etc.) are part of the list and identified as such.

Thanks! Time to start looking into some and creating my own future reading list.

Brian

Brian

[RCMcKenzie]

Did y'all ever see the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith where he dreamed of reading all the books he ever wanted to read, in a post-apocalyptic world, and then he broke his glasses, and they rolled the credits? I can only respond to excerpts, in that way, I've adjusted to modern times.

[John1941]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Did y'all ever see the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith where he dreamed of reading all the books he ever wanted to read, in a post-apocalyptic world, and then he broke his glasses, and they rolled the credits? I can only respond to excerpts, in that way, I've adjusted to modern times.

I've never seen it, but as an introverted obsessive reader I've been told about it.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

Did y'all ever see the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith where he dreamed of reading all the books he ever wanted to read, in a post-apocalyptic world, and then he broke his glasses, and they rolled the credits? I can only respond to excerpts, in that way, I've adjusted to modern times.

Remember it vividly. Twilight Zone was must-see TV when I was a kid, very exciting when the family gathered for a new episode. Rod Serling was a genius, and he had the best sci-fi writers in the world. My dad knew Burgess Meredith in college, by the way.

[Misunderestimated]

Non-Fiction/History

Money Ball - Lewis
Historial Abstract - James
Big Hair & Plastic Grass Epstein

Fiction:

Universal Baseball Association --Coover
The Great American Novel - Roth

[michael3322]

The Zappalas' books are incredible and beautifully designed. Highly recommend.

https://tomzappalamedia.com

[cammb]

The Boys of Summer

[CobbSpikedMe]

Crazy '08 was fantastic and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in prewar baseball. It's been mentioned earlier in this thread, but I wanted to bring attention to it again.



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