What are some of your favorite baseball related books?

[J.McMurry]

Here's a few that stand out in memory as Good reads.

The Duke of Flatbush - Duke Snider

Operation Bullpen-Kevin Nelson

Cobb- Al Stump

Glory of their times = Lawrence Ritter

Sleeper cars & Flannel uniforms - Elden Auker

The Last Commissioner - Fay Vincent

[FrankWakefield]

They've mentioned some good ones...

The Glory of Their Times (and the 4 cd set, too)
Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms
Ball Four
Cobb


I'd add...
Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract (the first one)
The Celebrant (one GREAT baseball novel)
Baseball When the Grass was Real
If I Never Get Back

[Robextend]

I am currently reading "The Old Ball Game" by Frank DeFord, and so far I am loving it.

[SmokyBurgess]

"Only the Ball was White" turned me on to the Negro Leagues when I found a copy in the library back in the late 1980's.

Lots of good reference material and interesting player profiles.

[justmike]

The book "I Was Right On Time" by Buck O'Neal was very enjoyable read.I couldn't put it down.

[HRBAKER]

Mentioned previously but if you haven't read or listened to "The Glory of Their Times" by L. Ritter please pick it up. In addition to the Stump Cobb biography I have also enjoyed the late David Halberstam's "October 1964."

[CobbvLajoie1910]

....any/all of Charles Alexander's works.

As far as true (historical) baseball scholarship goes, he has no equal (IMHO):


Ty Cobb
Rogers Hornsby
Spoke
John McGraw
Breaking The Slump
Our Game

Stump's Cobb doesn't hold a candle to Dr. Alexander's.

Henry Thomas' Walter Johnson Bio....is one of the finest of its kind.
(I believe Hank contributes to the Board from time-to-time).
It's in my all-time top-5.


Best,
Aaron

[Oldtix]

For pure tongue-in-cheek fun, you can't beat "The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book" by Brendan Boyd and Fred Harris.