OT?: Book recommendations?

vintagechris · #1 01-02-2011, 04:57 PM

Deadball Stars of the American League and Deadball stars of the National League are must reads IMO. Hard to start reading them and not stop.

DixieBaseball · #2 01-02-2011, 05:29 PM

If you dig the minors, particulary the Southern League (Many future Major Leaguer's played here first), then I recommend The Greatest game ever played in Dixie. It is a nice historical account of the 1908 Southern League players, teams, and an in depth look at the Nashville Vols winning the championship on the last day of the season.

FrankWakefield · #3 01-02-2011, 07:00 PM

David, you have Fleming's other book, The Dizziest Season there on your shelf. I'm an Ed Reulbach fan, so any book that covers part of that season is a good one.

Maybe we should work on a list of books with one book for each season...

1903: July 2, 1903 The Mysterious Death of Hall-Of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty, by Mike Sowell.

1904: The Year They Called off the World Series

1908: The Unforgettable Season

1934: The Dizziest Season

1941: 1941

1946: The Year the Boys Came Back

1964: October 1964

That's just a starter.

And Jeremy, I'll get myself a copy of that Vols book. Thanks for the recommendation.

Kawika · #4 01-02-2011, 07:27 PM

Here's a few more, Frank.

1903 Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series by Louis Masur - read it several years ago and remember liking it. Haven't read either of the Delehanty books mentioned in this thread so can't compare.

1906 When Chicago Ruled Baseball: The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906 by Bernard Weisberger - read it last year and enjoyed it.

1912 The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos who Reinvented the World Series in 1912 (whew) by Mike Vaccaro - didn't like it as much as I wanted to, being a 1912 WS buff. Thought the author over-reached outside his story too much in his attempt to draw the WS into the context of the day. Terrific dust jacket photo of Joe Wood and Jeff Tesreau.

1919 - Gotta be a definitive book of the Black Sox story but don't know it. I liked Eight Men Out but understand it came under a lot of scrutiny for inaccuracies.

1927 - Likewise, gotta be something about the '27 Yankees and then they should make a Ben Hur epic of it. Billy Crystal, are you reading this?

1955 The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn - duh!

Hot Springs Bathers · #5 01-03-2011, 12:02 PM

David- Could you move the lamp so I read the other titles?

Kawika · #6 01-03-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

David- Could you move the lamp so I read the other titles?

Sorry that the photo is in poor focus. I'm quite proud of my little baseball library (although it's strictly Single A bush league compared to Max Weder's Smithsonian North in Vancouver).

Butch7999 · #7 01-03-2011, 01:22 PM

Preston Orem's Baseball 1845-1881 (1961, Preston Orem) and Primitive Baseball: The First Quarter-Century of the National Pastime by Harvey Frommer (1988, Atheneum) are a couple of worthwhile primers on the game's early days...

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