Baseball Summer Reading

Looking to get more up to date on baseball? Here are some "must reads" by two big baseball brains...

Tim Walker says, "Possibly the three best books ever written about baseball":

• 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)

Other excellent reads Tim recommends:

• 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.