What are some of your favorite baseball related books?

[ethicsprof]

I just this week received the new books: Mint Condition
and The T206 Collection, so right now they're my favs!!!

best,
barry

[David Atkatz]

"Murderers' Row The 1927 New York Yankees," by G.H. Fleming.
--actual NY newspaper stories (by some of the greatest sportswriters), recreating day by day the Yankees' 1927 season.

"The Year They Called Off the World Series," by Benton Stark.
--Well-written account of the 1904 season in NY. Covers quite well the birth of the AL, and the Yankees.

[FrankWakefield]

Yes, Baseball's Golden Age is good, a reverent work. Baseball as I have Known It is good.

J. McMurry, I have the first version of that HOF book, I think it was called Politics of Glory. It was renamed to something more in line with what it's about. A thought-provoking book. A good read.

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday... it was something about how a person should not form strong opinions about things when they don't have much information. It was worded better than that. Mr. James' fine book on the HOF reminds me of that... folks have opinions about who should be in, who shouldn't, and in my estimation some folks would have different opinions if they just were a little bit better informed. But they keep their eyes closed, their fingers in their ears, and they hold onto their ideas.

[Rob D.]

The Long Season by Jim Brosnan.

[fkm_bky]

I have to concur on the Year They Called off the World Series...it was a great read, along with Glory of their Times.

I'm reading Cobb right now, and have probably read Pride of the Yankees at least three times.

Does anyone really buy into Cobb in that he was wronged so many times in his life? Whose side do you fall on...Cobb, or most everyone else?

bill

[DixieBaseball]

I am about to wrap up a new book called "The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie" and as a T210/T211 collector of Southern Assoc/League players, I found the book very interesting as I recognized many names from the T210 Series 8 Teams and it took me right through the 1908 season with teams such as Little Rock (Speaker), Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, B'Ham, Montgomery, Mobile, and New Orleans. This was a day by day account of the Nashville Vols and the historic season they had by way of winning the Championship on the last day of the season from New Orleans by beating Ted Breitenstein 1-0. (Nashville was picked to be a middle tier team, but Bill Bernhard, Harry Bay, Jake Daubert, and many more Future or Past Big Leaguer's changed all that...) A book like this helps put you back at that point in time and that is just what I like as a collector of the T210's. All of these Minor Leaguer Players have stories that are not known or rarely told, and this book enables my mind to wrap around that moment.... Good book !

[Jason Carota]

Before the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918, by Troy Soos, is my favorite baseball book. I can read it over an over again.

[pgellis]

I love biographies......

Ted Williams by Leigh Montville
Joe Dimaggio by Ben Cramer
and (I know it's not baseball), but Vince Lombardi's most recent biography was one of the best sports biographies that I have read ever!