Favorite Baseball Books? Let's Share!

[dbussell12]

The topic came up lately, so I want to ask - what are some of your favorite baseball books about the history of the game?

[bandrus1]

I enjoyed Chief Bender's Burden

[BioCRN]

Peter Golenbock's "Wrigleyville"

It's not perfect or all-encompassing, but it does a great job covering the earliest and middle years of Cubs history.

[hammertime]

Crazy '08 is one of my favorites. An easy and entertaining read.

[Seven]

Only The Ball Was White

The Glory of Their Times

[TUM301]

Originally Posted by hammertime

Crazy '08 is one of my favorites. An easy and entertaining read.

I’ll second this Sir, couldn’t put it down. It was like spending the whole season at the stadiums 👍

[fkm_bky]

Pride of the Yankees and Glory of Their Times

Bill

[z28jd]

My two favorite are:

Glory of Their Times

The Beer and Whiskey League

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by bandrus1

I enjoyed Chief Bender's Burden

I did as well. It's the better of the Bender books I've read.

[commishbob]

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
The Glory of Their Times - Lawrence Ritter
You Know Me, Al - Ring Lardner
Babe - Robert Creamer
Eight Men Out - Eliot Asinof
Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
Ball Four - Jim Bouton
Pat Jordan's A False Spring (my favorite baseball book)

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski (my second favorite baseball book)

Posnanski's The Baseball 100 It began as a series of essays he published during baseball's Pandemic 'downtime' and was made into a book. Terrific bios of who he considers the 100 best ever.

Jane Leavy's Koufax, A Lefty's Legacy

The Black Aces: Baseball's Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners by Mudcat Grant et al

[StraightRaceCards]

Glory of their times and The Celebrant are great reads!

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by commishbob

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski (my second favorite baseball book)

l

There was a third book I was trying to think of when I was picking my favorites above, and I just couldn't remember. It was this one. Highly recommended.