What are the best 5 baseball related books of all time?
I hаνе ѕοmе free time аnd I want tο read books аbουt baseball аnd іtѕ players. Cаn уου recommend уουr top 5 favorites? Cаn bе frοm аnу era!
I hаνе ѕοmе free time аnd I want tο read books аbουt baseball аnd іtѕ players. Cаn уου recommend уουr top 5 favorites? Cаn bе frοm аnу era!
well i just got finished reading longball
its pretty excellent
Well I can’t reckon of 5, but Longball was pretty excellent. I am plotting to read The Yankee Years. My friends told me the book is pretty excellent. So if you’re a Yankee fan, maybe you can read the book.
i dont read books but when i have to, i choose baseball books. a fantastic book to read is called “the heart of a champion”. fantastic book you really should read if you like baseball
1. The Glory of Their Times.
2. The Last Nine Innings.
3. Eight Men Out.
4. Bill James 1986 Historical Baseball Abstract.
5. Bill James 2009 Goldmine. ( Has things in it about baseball that you won’t find anywhere else.
6. Palmer’s: The Hidden Game.
You read these and you will have a grasp on baseball that will amaze your friends.
Delight in!!
Im a huge fan of books written by players/coaches about their careers or a certain point in their career. For example: I loved josh hamiltons book because it talked about where he came from and what he went owing to to get back into baseball. Jose canseco’s book because he gave out so much info on steroids when it first became renowned in baseball and also some private points in his life like madonna and clubs. Irrevocably i am currently reading Jor Torres book and it is really fascinating because there is a lot of behind the scenes stuff about the Yanks that I never knew. Talks a lot about the players.
I don’t know about “best of all time”, because there have been many, many excellent to fantastic baseball books, and I have read only a small fraction of them. But, here’s a list of five that I would recommend… and I will state that the #1 book doubtless would fit a “best of all time” category.
1. The Glory Of Their Times, Lawrence Ritter — absolutely fantastic book, oral histories by men, mostly lesser names, who played the game in the early part of the last century. Any serious baseball fan has this one on the shelf.
2. Pretty much anything by Bill James, but for more texture and less stats or analysis, go with either edition of his Historical Baseball Abstract (they are very different books).
3. Moneyball, Michael Lewis — pay attention to the title; it is NOT a book about OBP or anything so simplistic. It is about how one team, Oakland, and its GM, used market analysis to find players who were underappreciated playing assets, and bought them for cheap. It’s a lesson in how to run a team cost-effectively, while also being a lot about baseball.
4. The Curse Of The Bambino, Dan Shaugnessy — the curse is broken and hidden, long may it lie, but if you want to know more about the Red Sox, their history, and how there was more than enough evidence to point in the management that Selling Ruth Was The Stupidest Deal In History (and therefore deserving of being place under an evil spell), this one spells it out.
5. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Paul Dickson — even noticed how much specialized lingo baseball has? (Granted, this is right of nearly any profession.) Wondered where some of them came from? This one has all the definitions, etymology, and background you could ever want — except for “bullpen”. Even Dickson couldn’t definitively trace that one.