Looking to get more up to date on baseball? Here are some "must reads" by two big baseball brains...
- The Glory of Their Times, by Lawrence Ritter
- Ball Four, by Jim Bouton
- Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (this is one of my -- Aaron Strout's -- personal faves)
- The Bill James Historical Abstract of Baseball (This is a book to put on the nightstand and graze from.)
- The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams
- Nine Innings, by Daniel Okrent
- Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, by Jules Tygiel (*Outstanding* social history treatment of baseball’s integration.)
And from Kyle Flaherty:
- The Teammates by David Halberstam
- The Long Ball by Tom Adelman
- Past Time: Baseball as History by Jules Tygiel.
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With the start of the season, comes new baseball books. I am looking forward to reading:
As They See'Em - a fan's travels in the land of umpiring by Bruce Weber.
Forever Blue : the true story of Walter O'Malley, baseball's most controversial owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles by Michael D'Antonio.
and, you guys will love this one:
Becoming Manny: Inside the Life of Baseball's Most Enigmatic Slugger by Jean Rhodes, Shawn Boburg, and Leigh Montville
I recently read Joe Torre's book, The Yankee Years, which true to form sucked, although it was funny to read about A-Fraud.
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