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08-15-2021, 02:29 PM
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Fiction? W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe (which is the basis of Field of Dreams), The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings by William Brasher (also made into a movie), Pride of the Bimbos by John Sayles, The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg (featuring Christy Mathewson), and Waiting for Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher. If you're ambitious, the prologue to Don Delillo's Underworld is all about the "Shot Heard Round the World." The prologue was later published as a standalone novella titled Pafko at the Wall (96 pages) if you don't want to make the commitment to Underworld (832 pages). (You can get Pafko at the Wall as an ebook for three bucks.)
One other non-fiction book I'd recommend: Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald Hall. 
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08-15-2021, 02:36 PM
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Again on the topic of fiction, The Sun Field by Heywood Broun was the first mainstream novel that took baseball (Babe Ruth in this case) as its subject. It was published in 1923 and wasn't reprinted until 2008. In the days before the internet, it took me years of searching to find a copy, but now the reprint is readily available.
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