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3 | If I Never Get Back: A Novel. | Brock, Darryl | First professional baseball team. Time Travel, Trans-continental railroad. Mark Twain. Really. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Baseball Extra: A Newspaper History of the Glorious Game from Its Beginnings to the Present | Caren, Eric C. | An incredible collection of rare newspaper chart baseball's history from its beginnings in the mid-1800's to the 1999 World Series | 4 (4 reviews) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues (Major league memories) | Chadwick, Bruce | From the Durham Bulls to the Seattle Rainiers, America has pursued a love affair with minor-league baseball since the 18th century. Baseball's Hometown Teams, an attractive compilation of mostly vintage black-and-white photos and accompanying text, pays tribute to this sometimes overlooked part of the national pastime. | 3 Stars (1 Review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
6 | Voices from Cooperstown: Baseball's Hall of Famers Tell It Like It Was | Connor, Anthony J. | this book details the life and times of all the hall of famers that we know and love. from willie mays remembering the first time his father rolled him a ball, to ty cobb's views on how his rookie season molded him into the player that he was. this book has a little something for everyone and is definitely a must read. | 5 Stars (1 reviews) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Percentage Baseball | Cook, Earnshaw | Basebally analysis through numbers, numerology preceding sabremetrics | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
8 | The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball | Deford, Frank | Howie Traveler is the manager of the Cleveland Indians, and Jay Alcazar is his star player. Never quite good enough as a player, Traveler spent two decades in the minors as a coach and manager, building his resume oh so slowly. Alcazar, on the other hand, is the son of a wealthy Cuban immigrant. Even if he hadn't become a baseball star, he would have enjoyed myriad opportunities. The pair share a mundane player-manager relationship until one night Traveler inadvertently spies Alcazar in a physical dispute with a woman trying to escape the star's hotel room. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
9 | The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance | Dorfman, H A | In this book, authors H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl present their practical and proven strategy for developing the mental skills needed to achieve peak performance at every level of the game. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
10 | The Fireside Book of Baseball | Einstein, Charles | This is the first printing of the first edition of the best anthology of writings about baseball ever written, with more than 100 writings by such as Nelson Algren, Mordecai Brown, Ty Cobb, James T. Farrell, Bob Feller, and many others Numerous b&w photos and illustrations | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
11 | The Second Fireside Book Of Baseball | Einstein, Charles | Second book of the Anthology of the game | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
12 | The Third Fireside Book Of Baseball | Einstein, Charles | Third book of the Anthology of the game | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
13 | The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires | Gerlach, Larry R. | Gerlach has elicited entertaining stories Umpires--about their lonely travels, their dealings with umpire baiters, battles for unionization, breaking through the color line, and much more. From Beans Reardon, who came up to the National League in 1926, to Ed Sudol, who retired in 1977, here is a witty and telling portrait of baseball from the boisterous Golden Age to the Jet Age of Instant Replay. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
14 | Three and Two! The Autobiography of Tom Gorman, the Great Major League Umpire | Gorman, Tom & Holtzman, Jerome | Autobiography of Major League umpire tom Gorman | 5 stars (4 reviews) | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
15 | The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand: The Game as Umpires See It . | Gutkind, Lee, Greenberg, Eric Rolfe | Gutkind offers the perspectives of several major league umpires who offer their likes and dislikes of the profession, the players, and the game. | 3 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
16 | The Man In Dugout | Honig, Donald | The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball. | 5 stars (2 reviews) | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
17 | Baseball Rules in Pictures. | Jacobs, G. Walker Walker | Now fully revised and updated, Baseball Rules in Pictures contains the complete text of the Official Playing Rules.g bases, fair and foul balls, runner advances, bunts, force plays and more. | 5 Stars (1 Review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
18 | Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game ( | Kahn, Roger | Esteemed baseball writer Roger Kahn's Memories of Summer makes a fine companion to his earlier classic,The Boys of Summer. Both books plow similar soil--Kahn's roots in Brooklyn and his years covering the Dodgers with fertile prose--but the similarities end there. The new volume, subtitled "When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game," foregoes its predecessor's route of wistful melancholy and broken dreams for the exhilaration of the sport itself. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
19 | Good Enough to Dream | Kahn, Roger | Story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor league Utica Blue Sox. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
20 | Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong | Keri, Jonah | For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
21 | Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting. | Kerrane, Kevin | With a new epilogue covering the late 1990s, this book takes a look at the world of baseball scouting. Kevin Kerrane makes clear the point that baseball is big business. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
22 | The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel. | Kinsella, W. P. | Matthew Clarke was literally struck by lightning and magically imbued with the knowledge that in 1908 the Chicago Cubs had traveled to Onamata, Iowa, to play a seemingly endless game against an all-star amateur team, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. He spends the rest of his life trying to prove this fact | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
23 | Shoeless Joe. | Kinsella, W. P. | Basis for Field of Dreams | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
24 | The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, Revised Edition | Koppett, Leonard | good overall book for the casual baseball fan who is looking to improve his or her overall understanding of the game of baseball. | 3 stars | poetry | |||||||||||||||||
25 | Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues | Lamb, David | Lamb discusses the nation's 15 minor leagues--their franchises, stadiums, owners, managers and, too infrequently, players--in this workmanlike book. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
26 | Summer of '98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America | Lupica, Mike | Lupica talks abou the Sosa-McGwire homer race | 4 | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
27 | The Natural. | Malamud, Bernard | Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel is the second chance it offers its hero, elevating him--and his story--into the realm of myth | 4. Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
28 | Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays | Mays, Willie | Autobiography of Willie Mays | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
29 | The official rules of baseball: | Nemec, David | Illustrated with more than fifty black-and-white photographs, a study of the rules of baseball traces the development of baseball rules, examining how and why the rules have changed over the years, as well as key moments in baseball history. | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
30 | Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time | Neyer, Rob Epstein, Eddie | Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein identify 15 of these powerhouses, assess the overall stats and individual achievements of each, examine the durability of the numbers, and compare and contrast them relative to one another in an attempt to identify the one team that truly lived up to--and exceeded--its potential to stand alone. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
31 | The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America | Posnanski, Joe | Posnanski, sports columnist for the Kansas City Star, spent a year on the road with the iconic Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil (1911–2006), recording the magnanimous 94-year-old's encounters with scores of fans and his vast repertoire of entertaining stories. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
32 | The Machine | Posnanski, Joe | About the Big Red Machine | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
33 | The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. | Ritter, Lawrence S. | An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
34 | Covering Home: My Life With Nolan Ryan | Ryan, Ruth | In this up-close narrative, Ruth Ryan talks about life with her husband, baseball's most famous living legend, Nolan Ryan. Written at the culmination of Ryan's 27-season career, Ruth shares behind-the-scenes stories and candidly writes about their love, faith and commitment to each other. | 3 Stars (1 Review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
35 | Mudville Diaries: A Book of Baseball Memories | Schacht, Mike | This book treats readers to irresistible memories of baseball, from sandlot slides to a six-year-old's first Dodgers game at Ebbets Field. | 5 stars (2 Reviews) | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
36 | The Ballplayers: Baseball's Ultimate Biographical Reference | Shatzkin, Mike | This hefty, mostly biographical dictionary summarizes lives and careers of past and present major leaguers. Recommended for sports reference shelves. | 4 Stars (3 Reviews) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
37 | Red Smith on Baseball | Smith, Red | Red Smith on Baseball is as essential to a good sports library as any single book can be. But to compartmentalize it as just a sports book would be to somehow miss the larger accomplishments of a modern master of the English language. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
38 | When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946 | Turner, Frederick W. | Frederick Turner follows the events of the season, beginning with spring training and ending with the World Series match-up that saw the St. Louis Cardinals top the Boston Red Sox in seven games after Enos Slaughter's famed "mad dash" from first to home | 4 stars (1 review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
39 | Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball | Will, George | George Will breaks baseball down, parsing it into essential tasks: hitting, fielding, pitching, and managing. Why do some succeed grandly while others are more apt to whiff? | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
40 | The Veracruz Blues | Winegardner, Mark | Mexican league when MLB players were trying to break the owner's stranglehold. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
41 | The Diamond Appraised. | Wright,Craig R. & House, Tom | collaboration between House, pitching coach of the Texas Rangers, and Wright, a former Rangers' statistician who styles himself a sabremetrician | 2 stars (only one review, seems to frown upon sabermetrics) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
42 | Spring Training | Zinsser, William | This light, amiable look at the spring training camp of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, Fla., in 1988, captures the spirit of this annual American renewal. | 4.5 | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
43 | Eight Men Out. | Asinof, Eliot | Classic regarding the Black Sox Scandal | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
44 | Sometimes You See It Coming : A Novel | Baker, Kevin | This uneven first novel about major-league baseball utilizes the sport as both a metaphor for real life and an escape from it. | 4.5 | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
45 | Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager | Bissinger, Buzz | Bissinger eschews the usual method of writing about baseball in the context of a season or a career, choosing instead to dissect the game by carefully watching one three-game series between the Cardinals and Cubs in late 2003. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
46 | Ball Four | Bouton,Jim | n the early '70s, he tossed off one of the funniest, most revealing, insider's takes on baseball life in Ball Four, his diary of the season he tried to pitch his way back from oblivion on the strength of a knuckler. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
47 | BASEBALL. An Illustrated History. | c., Geoffrey & Burns, Ken | In 1994 Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns's Baseball captured the beauty and complexity of America's national pastime. | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
48 | The Game That Was: The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection | Cahan, Richard | unique compilation of the game's greatest players relaxing with their families, hunting with the friends, and hanging out with the neighborhood kids | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
49 | Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big | Canseco, Jose | Canseco's books about Roids. | 3.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
50 | Hornsby Hit One Over My Head: A Fans' Oral History of Baseball | Cataneo, David | Baseball is the most Homeric of games, a game of voices telling stories, of transmitting lore in that most ancient technology: word of mouth. Everyone who's been to the ballpark has a story to tell; sportswriter David Cataneo has done heroic duty by gathering and disseminating the rich voice of the common fan in this collection that runs the gamut from exuberance to poignancy. | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
51 | The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream | Collins, Jim | profiles of the players, coaches, and local citizens who come together in the Cape Cod League offers a captivating, timeless brew of scuffed baseballs, white sand, and pristine dreams. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
52 | The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. | Coover, Robert | A satirical fable with a rootless and helpless accountant as the protagonist. Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
53 | Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball. | Costas, Bob | Kostas critiques baseball and proposes several common-sense changes | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
54 | Babe | Creamer,Robert | extraordinary biography, noted sportswriter Robert W. Creamer reveals the complex man behind the sports legend. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
55 | Insider's Baseball | Davids, L. Robert | Collection of unkown facts and stats regarding baseball | 4 Stars( review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
56 | The Scrapbook history of baseball | Deutsch, Jordan A | ? | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
57 | The Dickson Baseball Dictionary | Dickson, Paul | Dickson's dictionary does far more than define the terms and phrases of the game; many of his 5000 definitions provide etymological descriptions and contending theories, context notes, external uses of the term, and its "earliest" appearance. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
58 | The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball | Dickson, Paul | Paul Dickson clearly explains and translates the quirky documentation system, which looks like cuneiform to the uninitiated, for recording what happens on the ball field, and why true fans are so adamant about doing it. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
59 | Nice Guys Finish Last | Durocher, Leo | A no-holds-barred account of a singular figure, Nice Guys Finish Last brings the personalities and play-by-play of baseball’s greatest era to vivid life, earning a place on every baseball fan’s bookshelf. | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
60 | Knotty Problems of Baseball | Evans, Billy | Billy Evan | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
61 | Diamond Dollars | Gennaro, Vince | Diamond Dollars is a fresh, provocative, insightful, and analytical look at the business of baseball. Using the win-revenue relationship as a foundation, author Vince Gennaro delves deeply to explain how a team's level of competitiveness impacts the "value" of its players, to explore how a well-developed farm system contributes to a team's economic value, and to discuss some recent business trends, such as team-owned regional sports television networks. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
62 | A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti. | Giamatti, Bart | The collected writings of Bart Giamatti demonstrate the depth of appreciation he had toward our game. The first paragraph of "Green Fields of the Mind" alone should be the centerpiece for the canon of sports literature. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
63 | Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played | Gibson, Bob , Jackson, Reggie | If you want to understand baseball’s game inside the game between the pitcher and the hitter, this is it. Two of the greats have written a classic | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
64 | Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball. | Goldstein, Warren | an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
65 | Wait till next year | Goodwin,Doris Kearns | Pulitzer Prize Winning Goodwin reflects on her childhood and memories of the Dodgers in Brooklyn | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
66 | The Celebrant. | Greenberg, Eric Rolfe | turn-of-the-century tale about the intertwined lives of New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson and the family of a young Jewish immigrant who makes his World Series rings | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
67 | World Series Classics | Gutman, Dan | Recounts the World Series games of 1912, 1924, 1947, 1975 and 1991. | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
68 | Jackie & Me | Gutman, Dan | Not only does Joe travel back in time over 50 years, stay at the Robinson's apartment, and become a bat boy for the Dodgers, but he is also transformed from a Polish American into an African American, introducing some interesting perspectives on race in the mid-20th century. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
69 | It aint cheating if you don't get caught | Gutman, Dan | The book is full of all sorts of stories about how to cheat in baseball. Just like in life, cheaters always get caught (well, usually anyway). This book covers a lot of the big cheats - Gaylord Perry and his Vaseline ball, Eddie Stanky and the Stanky Manoeuver, along with a bunch of other funny and interesting characters. | 5 stards (1 review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
70 | The Babe and Me. | Gutman, Dan | A boy and his father zip back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth actually predicted his home run in Game Three of the 1932 World Series. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
71 | Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. | Gutman, Dan | Joe Stoshack and his mom aren't rich, so when Joe finds a valuable baseball card in an old lady's attic, he thinks he's got it made. Joe is an avid baseball card collector so he knows that the Honus Wagner card is baseball's rarest find. What he doesn't know is that the card has properties that allow both Joe and Honus Wagner to travel through time. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
72 | The Way Baseball Works . | Gutman, Dan , McCarver, Tim | This nifty, heavily illustrated book is perfect for browsing. The excellent photographs show how a baseball and glove are made, how a pitcher throws a curve or slider, how stadiums equipped with AstroturfR are conducive to certain types of hits and plays, and much more. | 3 stars (only 2 reviews) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
73 | October 1964. | Halberstam, David, | Regarding the myth surrounding 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals w | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
74 | Summer of '49. | Halberstam, David, | ostensibly about the pennant race between the Yankees and Red Sox that year and the "rivalry" between Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
75 | Watching Baseball Smarter | Hample, Zack | Highly recommended for baseball watchers, Hample also schools amateur players and coaches with well-illustrated examples of some complex pitching, hitting and base-running scenarios. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
76 | The bullpen Gospels | Hayhurst, Dirk | well written and gives some pretty awesome insight into what it's like in A/AA/AAA. | 5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
77 | HEART OF THE GAME: The Education of a Minor-League Ball Player . | Hemphill, Paul | follows a year in the life of Marty Malloy, a short, scrappy second baseman in the Atlanta Braves organization. Hemphill does a fine job of capturing the essence of the sport. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
78 | Pure Baseball | Hernandez, Keith | Keither Hernandez talks baseball with an indepth perspective | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
79 | The BILL JAMES GUIDE TO BASEBALL MANAGERS. | James, Bill | James has built a career on finding the art and wisdom in baseball's numbers. Here he answers--in words as well as the numbers to back them up--everything you've ever wanted to know about dugout skippers, from the game's dinosaur days in the 1870s right up to today. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
80 | Percentage Baseball | James, Bill | this comprehensive and opinionated tome describes the evolution of the sport over the decades (uniforms in the 1890s, best minor league teams of the 1930s, the Negro Leagues, etc.) and the characteristics of its players (stats, injuries, habits and proclivities) | 4.5 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
81 | The Politics of Glory: How Baseball's Hall of Fame Really Works | James, Bill | discusses how players have been selected in the past and are chosen now for the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. The Baseball Writers of America, which picks contemporary players, has been sparing in its inductions, he argues, while the groups (now called the Veterans Committee) that have picked past players have been overly generous | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
82 | That Sweet Diamond Baseball Poems | Janeczko, Paul B., Katchen, Carole | appealing suite of poems that illuminate the plays and dramatis personae from before the game to after the last out. | 5 Stars (1 review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
83 | A False Spring | Jordan, Pat | A painful memoir and self-analysis of a young, aspiring baseball player who failed to make the majors" | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
84 | The Boys of Summer. | Kahn, Roger | After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team up to their victory in the 1955 World Series | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
85 | The Planet of the Umps | Kaiser, Ken | funny memoir offers a hilarious look into life behind the plates by the man who was voted the most colorful umpire in the American League in a 1986 Sporting News poll. | 3.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
86 | Baseball Between the Numbers | Keri, Jonah & Baseball Prospectus | For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
87 | Is this a great game or what | Kurkihan, Tim | Kukijan writes about his experiences covering 25 years of baseball | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
88 | You know me Al: a busher's letters. | Lardner, Ring | The book profiles a talented fictitious baseball pitcher whose primary limitations are his shallowness, arrogance and bone-headedness. | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
89 | The Art of Hitting.300. | Lau, Charley , Glossbrenner, Alfred , LaRussa, Tony, Salzberg, Charles | Talks about the proper way to go about hitting a baseball | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
90 | The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood | Leavy, Jean | Biography of The Mick | 4 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
91 | MOneyBall | Lewis, Michael | Billy Beane, the A's, and sabremetrics | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
92 | The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars | Lowenfish,Lee , Creamer, Robert w. | rom the introduction of the reserve clause in 1879 to the lockout and new basic agreement of 1990, baseball players have been engaged in one of the longest and most colorful labor struggles in our nation’s history. The Imperfect Diamond tells the stories of the players and their opponents, the powerful owners: | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
93 | The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees | Lyle, , Golenbock, Peter | The Bronx Zoo is Lyle's best-selling, highly acclaimed collaboration with author Peter Golenbock that, when originially released in 1979, was favorably compared to Jim Bouton's groundbreaking Ball Four as a hillarious - but scathing - baseball tell-all. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
94 | Rules and Lore of Baseball | Marazzi, Richard | ? | NA | fiction | |||||||||||||||||
95 | Baseball's Golden Age : The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon. | McCabe, Neal , McCabe, Constance | He was called "The Baseball Photographer," the man who put his camera away after the World Series and didn't unpack it again until Opening Day, but Conlon's work is not that simple. Though he had no artistic pretense, his images are certainly works of art, and if his subject, on the surface, was the "National Pastime," his focus was really on capturing depth of character; his characters just happened to be ballplayers. | 5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
96 | Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit | McCarthy, Matt | Was touted as Ball Four for the minor leagues. | 4 stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
97 | Baseball for Brain Surgeons | McCarver, Tim | packed, at times densely penned, manual for smart and inquisitive fans, written up to their hunger for good, solid, challenging insight into the game's tactics, strategies, and maneuverings. McCarver goes into impressively thorough detail, which is his ultimate strength and occasional weakness; he assumes you've already got at least a baseball B.A. | 3.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
98 | A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball . | Miller, Marvin | author unsentimentally recalls a turbulent era during which club owners lost a protracted battle to retain the reserve rule (which effectively bound players to one team in perpetuity), thereby obliging them to bid for the services of erstwhile chattels as free agents or deal through impartial arbitrators. | 2 stars (only one review) | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
99 | Joy in Mudville | Mitchell, Greg | Mitchell volunteered to manage his son Andy's Little League team in Nyack, New York. Joy in Mudville is the delightful result, restoring sanity, perspective, and fun to what is, after all, a kids' summer game. | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||
100 | I was Right on Time | O'Neil, Buck | Buck O'Neil talks about his baseball and his days in the Negro Leagues, and as a scot | 4.5 Stars | non fiction | |||||||||||||||||