What's the best Baseball Book Fiction and Non you have read?

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by jerseygary

I have hundreds of baseball books in my library and have read thousands more, but if I had to absolutely pick one of each, this would be them...

Best Non-Fiction:
Outsider Baseball by Scott Simkus
As far as I'm concerned the greatest book written about non-MLB baseball and the most important non-fiction baseball book of the past 10 years. Besides being crammed with original research the author is funny as hell and his writing is a joy to read.

Best Fiction: The Natural by Bernard Malamud
I'd seen the movie a dozen times but man oh man, the original book ain't nothing like the movie! If the script writers followed the storyline of the book there's no way it would have been made let alone have Robert Redford star in it.

Non Fiction "The Glory of their Times" ..Larry Ritter , I knew him personally and he was so modest about the book , Also what I thought was amazing is that he did an equal split on royalties and many family members received checks from Larry Long after the player had died.

Fiction : Still have not found a good one yet , but agree with this post the book "The NATURAL" was AWFUL ! Movie FAR better than the book
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[frankbmd]

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[Wite3]

Fiction is "The Celebrant"...wonderful book.

Non-Fiction: "Teammates" by Halberstamm is a great look at Williams, D. Dimaggio, Pesky, and Doerr.

Honorary mention: The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book.

Joshua

[Nashvol]

Non-fiction: "The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence Ritter (hands down IMHO) followed by "Branch Rickey" by Lee Lowenfish.

Just finished "Baseball's Natural, The Story of Eddie Waitkus" by John Theodore this morning. Great background for "The Natural" by Bernard Malamud.

Fiction: "Angels at Rickwood" by Chuck Stewart (Shameless plug: I know the author; but it really is a great book to share with your kids)

[clydepepper]

...is that I am picking up tips on more books I should own.

At my age, I am supposed to be decreasing my library.

[nebboy]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Fiction is "The Celebrant"...wonderful book.

Non-Fiction: "Teammates" by Halberstamm is a great look at Williams, D. Dimaggio, Pesky, and Doerr.

Honorary mention: The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book.

Joshua

( The Great American Baseball card book)
I love that little book it always puts a smile on my face