Good Baseball Books

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Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Ed Delahanty and the Emerald Age Of Baseball is a tremendous work.

Agree with you completely. I read that Delahanty book a couple years ago, and really liked it. The author, Jerrold Casway, is a professor at Howard Community College in Maryland. I wrote him a short e-mail after I read the book saying how much I liked it, and he wrote me a nice e-mail back saying that the greatest feeling any author can ever have is being told by a reader that they enjoyed something he/she wrote.

For something different than a biography, Dave Jamieson's "Mint Condition" is a fabulous read. The book talks about the author's frustration and disappointment at realizing his cards from the 1980s and 1990s were worth nearly nothing. Jamieson wrote about calling card shops to see if they wanted his old cards, only to find out that he could literally not even give them away. The book also talks about the history of cards and why the bottom fell out on '80s and '90s cards.