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- The Glory of Their Times, by Lawrence Ritter. In the mid-1960s, Columbia University professor Lawrence Ritter put 75,000 miles on his car driving around the United States, interviewing aging ballplayers.
- Ball Four, by Jim Bouton. Jim Bouton’s playing diary of the 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros seems a little tame by today’s standards.
- Lords of the Realm, by John Helyar. Anyone who wants a primer on baseball’s history of troubling labor relations should start with John Helyar’s master work.
- Baseball, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Have a young fan around? Here’s the perfect book to introduce him or her to baseball. The accompanying book for Ken Burns’ miniseries that aired on PBS in September 1994, Baseball recounts 150 years of the game’s history.
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- "Catcher in the Wry" by Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz. It takes one turn of the page to find a laugh in Bob Uecker’s autobiography. We’re talking pre-table of contents.
- "Summer of '49" by David Halberstam. "Summer of '49" presents the idea of baseball as a microcosm of society at the time. David Halberstam places the Yankees-Red Sox American League pennant race and the Joe DiMaggio-Ted Williams rivalry in the context of post-World War II America.
- "The Only Rule Is It Has To Work" by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller. Baseball is at its best when it's innovating. Radical ideas have brought new life to the sport for a century-and-a-half.
Mar 1, 1995 · Helyar's book dives into the long, tumultuous history of the business of baseball. He shows the evolution of the game from a sport completely dominated by the owners to a struggle between the owners and the labor union.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Through baseball books, we’ve come to understand the game and its history. The sport is catnip for writers: a game of contemplation and strategy that lends itself beautifully to numbers and...
Sep 5, 2023 · From nineteenth-century pitchers’ duels to breaking the sport’s color line in the ’40s, all the way to the greatest trick play of the last decade and the slide home that became a meme, Posnanski’s illuminating take allows us to rediscover the sport we love—and thought we knew.
There have been thousands of books on baseball published since SABR was founded in August 1971. That’s far more than any other sport. Many have come from the pens, then typewriters, then word processors of SABR members.
Apr 25, 2011 · John Thorn, the Official Historian for Major League Baseball, has written dozens of books about the game, including the Total Baseball encyclopedia series. Thorn was the historical consultant for Ken Burn’s Emmy Award-winning documentary Baseball and frequently comments on the game for ESPN.
