What's your favourite baseball book?

[JimmyC]

Gosh, there are so many great books - I have over a hundred on the shelf…..hard to say which is the best…..sometimes I want stats and grab more stat related books and other times I want a deep dive into a specific player and will grab a book solely about a player and his career……

And then there are books like Roger Kahn’s “The Boys of Summer”…..just hard to beat that one….

[insidethewrapper]

"Catcher" by Peter Morris. If you want to learn about the evolution of this position from the early days to present.

All Pete Morris books are great about the early days ( 19th Century).

I also liked "Miracle Ball". It was a page turner. Tells the story of what happened to the ball Bobby Thomson hit (the shot heard round the world ). I did have a lot of questions after reading this book. Anybody else read this book ?

[jimtigers65]

Originally Posted by SteveWhite

Big Hair and Plastic Grass-A Funny Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70's
By Dan Epstein

The Machine-A Hot Team, A Legendary Season, and Heart-Stopping World Series. The Story of the 1975 Reds.
Joe Posnanski

I enjoyed Big Hair and Plastic Grass by Dan Epstein that I ordered his other baseball book, Stars and Stipres.

[jwjohn06]

I found a book in a used bookstore many years ago called "Don't Let Baseball Die" by Art Hill. It focuses on the 1977 Detroit Tigers, but includes other stories as well. I truly think it is one of the best reads I ever read about baseball. It is soft cover and hard to find now, but definitely worth a look.

[JCM2009]

Ty Cobb by Charles Alexander

[JollyElm]

Is no one going to bring up the OP's use of the British spelling of "favourite"????

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Is no one going to bring up the OP's use of the British spelling of "favourite"????

All I am hearing is the sound of a cricket...bat.

Brian

[Seven]

I absolutely loved "The Last Boy" by Jane Leavy about Mickey Mantle. Shows all of Mantles demons, paints a complete picture of how messed up his childhood was, and how truly gruesome some of the things happened to him were, over the course of his life.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by bnorth

More about baseball cards.
Never Cheaper By The Dozen by fellow member Brian Powell
Unfortunately it is not available in actual book form. I know you can get a CD or a Kindle edition. I highly recommend it.

Another nice book written by a member is Mark Peavey's "A History of Baseball in the Deadball Era vol 1 1901-1905" Enjoyable read.

available on Amazon
https://smile.amazon.com/History-Bas...s%2C128&sr=8-2

[FrankWakefield]

The Book of Baseball, by Patten and McSpadden 1911


This book is tall and wide, not very thick... Imagine that someone clipped articles about baseball from newspapers from about 1908 through 1911, then put that together in an attempt to describe the players, teams, and the game just about spot on the same time as the T205s, T206s, and T207s were distributed. If you're a fan of those cards then contemplate getting one of these books. There's a Dover reprint of the book that I've yet to see; it's affordable. And then there's the original 110+ year old book that's a bit pricey.