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Subject: More BASEBALL BOOKS (courtesy of Dan Nichols) (fwd)
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> Subject: More BASEBALL BOOKS (courtesy of Dan Nichols)
> 
> 
> 
>          The 50-Book Essential Baseball Library
>          --------------------------------------
> 
> Compiled by Larry Ritter at the request of a SABR (Society for American
> Baseball Research) publication.
> 
> Statistical reference works excluded; listed in alphabetical order by
> author.
> 
> Roger Angell - The Summer Game (1972)
>                Five Seasons (1972)
>                Late Innings (1982)
>      Angell has such deep insights into the game and the people who play
> it, and writes so well, that he has virtually single-handedly elevated
> the quality of sportswriting to a new level.
> 
> Eliot Asinof - Eight Men Out (1963)
>      Asinof's book about the 1919 Black Sox scandal still stands, a
> quarter century later, as one of the best jobs of investigative baseball
> reporting ever written.
> 
> Red Barber - The Broadcasters (1970)
>              1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball (1982)
>      Two outstanding books, filled with inside information, by the best
> baseball play-by-play announcer of all time.
> 
> Thomas Boswell - How Life Imitates the World Series (1982)
>                  Why Time Begins on Opening Day (1984)
>      One of the few competitors to Angell in terms of elegant and
> insightful baseball reportage.
> 
> Bobbie Bouton & Nancy Marshall - Home Games (1983)
>      A straightforward and honest book that reveals a side of baseball
> that is rarely ackowledged, much less discussed. Poignant and moving.
> 
> Jim Bouton & Leonard Schecter - Ball Four (1970)
>      A pioneer in its day. Considered daring at the time but pretty tame
> stuff now. Perhaps the funniest baseball writing since Ring Lardner.
> 
> Jim Brosnan - The Long Season (1960)
>      Talk about pioneers! As far ahead of his time as Galileo.
> 
> Ty Cobb & Al Stump - My Life in Baseball (1961)
>      After you finish the book, then read about Al Stump's experiences
> writing it (a 3-part article in True Magazine in 1961.)
> Bob Creamer - Babe (1974)
>               Stengel: His Life and Times (1984)
>      Creamer writes a well-researched no-nonsense biography. The best in
> the business at it.
> 
> Charles Einstein - The 3 Fireside Books of Baseball (1956, 58, 68)
>      It is hard to understand how the publisher, Simon & Schuster, could
> have allowed these classics to go out of print. They should be available
> in a boxed set.
> 
> James T. Farrell - My Baseball Diary (1957)
>      A tender and loving book. As great, in its own way, as the same
> author's famous Studs Lonigan trilogy.
> 
> Gordon Fleming - The Unforgettable Season (1981)
>      A novel and exciting way to relieve a baseball season, in this case
> 1908 and poor Fred Merkle. The idea is great but I think one book of its
> type is enough.
> 
> Larry Gerlach - The Men in Blue (1980)
>      Interview-type books depend on the interviewer's skill as an
> interviewer and as a writer. Gerlach is tops on both counts.
> 
> Lee Gutkind - Best Seat in the House But You have to Stand ( 1975)
>    Great material, delightfully presented. One of the two best books
> about umpiring ever written. The other is Gerlach's.
> 
> Bill Heward & Dimitri Gat - Some Are Called Clowns (1974)
>      The 1973 season of the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns. Again
> wonderful material, top-notch writing.
> 
> Art Hill - I Don't Care If I Never Come Back (1980)
>      A warm, wise, and funny book.
> 
> Jerry Holzman - No Cheering in the Press Box (1974)
>      Terrific interviews with sportswriters.
> 
> Don Honig - Baseball When the Grass Was Real (1975)
>             Baseball Between the Lines (1976)
>             The Man in the Dugout (1977)
>             The October Heroes (1979)
>             The National League (1983)
>             The American League (1983)
>             Baseball America (1985)
>      The first four are wonderful interview books, the next two are
> pictorial league histories from the turn of the century to date, with
> hundreds of absolutely superb photographs, and the last is a beautifully
> written blend of social and baseball history. Fred Lieb used to be the
> most prolific book-writing baseball author of all time, but Honig has
> overtaken him and is lengthening his lead with every copyright. In
> neither case has quantity diminished quality.
> 
> Rogers Hornsby & Bill Surface - My War With Baseball (1962)
> 
> Bill James - The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (1985)
>      Innovative, stimulating, and great reading, although not quite as
> good as Crime and Punishment despite what the jacket copy says.
> 
> Pat Jordan - A False Spring (1975)
>      Another writer in the Angell-Boswell class.
> 
> Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer (1972)
>      Kahn also belongs in the same league, as this classic shows.
> 
> Gene Karst & Martin Jones - Who's Who in Professional Baseball (1973)
>      An obvious labor of love that few fans seem to know about. It
> contains brief but interesting and well-written player biographies.
> 
> Leonard Koppett - The Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball (1967)
>      Now twenty years old and dated, but in its time an eye-opener.
> Should be revised, updated, and reissued.
> Fred Lieb - Baseball As I Have Known It (1977)
>      Absolutely fascinating stories about the old days by one of the
> best baseball writers ever.
> 
> Lee Lowenfish & Tony Lupien - The Imperfect Diamond (1980)
>      An important well-researched history of labor-management relations
> in baseball. Should be updated and reissued.
> 
> Sadaharu Oh & David Falkner - A Zen Way of Baseball (1984)
>      In my opinion, one of the best sports autobiographies ever written.
> 
> Daniel Okrent & Harris Lewine - The Ultimate Baseball Book (1979)
>      I don't like all the articles by people like Tom Wicker and George
> Higgins, I don't care for sepia-tinted photos, and many of the
> photograph reproductions are too small, but it is still one of the best
> baseball books ever published.
> 
> Robert Peterson - Only the Ball Was White (1970)
>      A lot of research has been done on the Negro Leagues since 1970,
> but when Peterson's book came out it was pioneering work and it still
> stands up well today.
> 
> Damon Rice - Seasons Past (1976)
>      A warm and wonderful book, with the author's name an obvious
> psuedonym. Within a fictional framework, covers New York baseball from
> the 19th century until the Dodgers and Giants went West. Has always been
> a special favorite of mine.
> 
> Jackie Robinson & Charles Dexter - Baseball Has Done It (1964)
>      Powerful stuff, written at the height of the civil rights movement.
> 
> Howard Senzel - Baseball and the Cold War (1977)
>      Your political views will probably greatly influence your reaction
> to this book. Personally, I think it is haunting, original, beautifully
> written. Also funny. But if you tend to be Conservative by inclination,
> you won't care for it.
> 
> J.G. Taylor Spink - Judge Landis and 25 Years of Baseball (1947)
>      Actually, Fred Lieb wrote this, although Spink's name is on the
> title page. Informative and frank and pulls surprisingly few punches,
> given the era in which it was written.
> 
> Geoffrey Stokes - Pinstripe Pandemonium (1984)
>      Billy Martin and the New York Yankees during the 1983 season. One
> of the best behind-the-scenes in-the-clubhouse books ever written about
> a baseball team.
> 
> John Thorn - The Armchair Book of Baseball (1985)
>      A worthy successor to the Fireside Books.
> 
> John Thorn & Pete Palmer - The Hidden Game of Baseball (1984)
>      Like Bill James, innovative and stimulating whether or not you
> agree with their conclusions.
> 
> Bill Veeck & Ed Linn - Veeck as in Wreck (1962)
>      Great fun and such a pleasure to read!
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