Favorite Baseball Books? Let's Share!

[LEHR]

Heart of a Tiger is by far the best book I've read about Ty Cobb. It's highly recommended.

[JollyElm]

Leafing through any of the books that highlight all of the old (and usually long gone) stadiums with stories, run-downs, anecdotes, photographs, insider knowledge, etc., is a phenomenal ways to spend your time!!

Off the top of my head, these titles come to mind (and there are undoubtedly many more), and the more of them you have the merrier:

Lost Ballparks
America's Classic Ballparks
Ballparks: Yesterday & Today
Ballparks Then and Now
Ballparks

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Last Boy, The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Homers and Oct. 1964.

[Writehooks]

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading & Bubblegum Book, by Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris

Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War, by Richard Goldstein

The Game I'll Never Forget: 50 of baseball's best recall the history they made, by George Vass

[John1941]

Originally Posted by Writehooks

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading & Bubblegum Book, by Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris

Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War, by Richard Goldstein

The Game I'll Never Forget: 50 of baseball's best recall the history they made, by George Vass

I just got on here to mention The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubblegum Book. A treasure.

[jimtigers65]

I recently read
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic by Jason Turnbow. It is about Charley Finley and the Oakland A’s. Not an A’s fan but stumbled on it and thoroughly enjoyed reading about the ups and downs of the team.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass by Dan Epstein. Another book about baseball in the 1970s.

[FrankWakefield]

Many erudite choices, guys.

Crazy '08 was written by Flemming, I think. He also wrote The Dizziest Season (1934 Cardinals).

I agree with The Glory of Their Times. Start by reading that one.
James' first Historical Baseball Abstract, I liked that one better.
Baseball When the Grass Was Real
Fireside Book of Baseball
2 Mike Sowell books: July 2, 1903 (about Ed Delahanty and how the two leagues reached an agreement to honor the other's contracts), and The Pitch that Killed... (about Ray Chapman and Carl Mays, Had that pitch not hit Chapman, I think both would have had a good shot at making the Hall)
Beer and Whiskey League
Only the Ball Was White
The Fix is In.
Halberstam's October 2964

I've not read that Bender's Burden book, I think I will.


Now, when it comes to fiction... #1 is The Celebrant. It's set in the times of the T206 players... an enchanting book. #2 The Art of Fielding. It's about baseball, and life, and so much more.