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01-10-2023, 09:18 PM
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Like many have said "The Glory of Their Times" is the bast baseball book of all time. I just want to say if you have not listened to the audio version you are missing out! After listening to the actual voices of the old timers I fell in love with some of them. Chief Meyers, Hans Lobert, Sam Crawford etc. Jimmy Austen! What a sweet funny guy. Always chuckling. Well, I have to quit and go listen to it again.
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01-10-2023, 09:23 PM
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My top 3 in no particular order:
The Soul of Baseball 59 in 84 The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
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01-10-2023, 09:51 PM
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A False Spring, by Pat Jordan is my favorite. Certainly is not an uplifting story but terrific writing.
The Soul of Baseball, by Joe Posnaski is the best book I read last year. These are books I read (or re-read) in the last couple of years and enjoyed. Why Time Begins on Opening Day, by Thomas Boswell Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, by Donald Hall You Gotta Have Wa, by Robert Whiting The Long Season, by Jim Brosnan Ball Four, by Jim Bouton The Boys of Summer, by Roger Kahn Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, by Jane Leavy Crazy '08, by Cait Murphy The Baseball 100, by Joe Posnaski and a highly recommended fiction entry: Man on Spikes, by Eliot Asinof
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01-10-2023, 10:00 PM
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For cards:
The Zappalas' collections are the best (Cracker Jacks, 1952 Topps, T206, etc)  For photos: The Charles Conlon books are the best.  For reading, then Rushin' 34-ton bat is best. 
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01-10-2023, 10:05 PM
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Bullpen Gospels
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=B...qid=5CsWfP9hQQ A False Spring https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bi...9780803276260/ Miracle Ball https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/miracl...dition=5932578 Away Games https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1935444.Away_Games And of course…Ball Four by Jim Bouton
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01-10-2023, 10:25 PM
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"Pound that Budweiser"
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01-10-2023, 10:35 PM
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Urban Schocker: Silent hero of baseball's Golden Age, by Steve Steinberg (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
Spartan Seasons: How baseball survived the Second World War, by Richard Goldstein (MacMillan, 1980) Roger Maris: Baseball's reluctant hero, by Tom Glavin and Danny Perry (Touchstone Press, 2010) Catfish: My life in baseball, by Jim (Catfish) Hunter (McGraw-Hill, 1988)
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01-10-2023, 10:51 PM
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Non-Fiction
The Glory of Their Times Baseball When the Grass was Real The Fix is In October 1964 - David Halberstam July 2, 1903, The Mysterious Death of Hall of Famer Big Ed Delehanty - Sowell The Unforgetable Season - Gordon Fleming (best book about the 1908 Cubs, and the truth about the Merkle play) The Dizziest Season - Gordon Fleming (the 1934 path for the Tigers and Cardinals to meet in that 1934 World Series) Baseball in '41 - Robert Creamer Stengel, His Life and Times - Robert Creamer Babe: The Legend Comes to Life - Robert Creamer Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train - Henry Thomas Fiction The Celebrant (without a doubt, anyone collecting old cards who's read this would agree, it's THE BEST) I've read almost everything read in this thread so far... these I've mentioned I stand behind. Sowell's book July 2, 1903 is about so MUCH MORE than Delehanty... it covers the contract jumping between the leargues and the Genises of the current 2 league system we have today; the book gives the reader a foundation for baseball as it was just before the days of the T206 cards. If you think Rose and Jackson belong in the Hall and you're close-minded certain about that, then don't bother with The Fix is In. It is only for truth seekers who want to understand what happened; about the early day efforts to rid the sport of gamblers, and segments about most of the various gambling scandals of the sport. (Although for a quick fix on understanding why Jackson stays out, read Bill Lamb's article on Jackson, see SABR's Baseball Research Journal, 2019, Vol 48, #1.) Last edited by FrankWakefield; 01-10-2023 at 11:05 PM.
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01-11-2023, 12:07 AM
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01-11-2023, 05:28 AM
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Since it wasn't already mentioned: The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant.
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01-11-2023, 06:39 AM
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"The Bronx Zoo" by Sparky Lyle.
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