Shoeless Joe90 reviews W. P. Kinsella Mariner Books, 1999 If you read it, a cliche wil vanish + A Book to Read When You Feel Magic Seeping From Your Life + Uncategorizable Sport or Inspritational? + Baseball Heaven             Past Time: Baseball As History6 reviews Jules Tygiel Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 Move Over, Herodotus + Fascinating + provocative, enjoyable synthesis of baseball and history + The Best + Baseball as America, because Baseball is America             Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball (Total Baseball)25 reviews Total Sports, 2001 The best baseball reference book + Yearly Update is needed... + One glaring problem + Don't Leave Home Without It             The Great All-Time Baseball Record Book2 reviews Joseph L. Reichler Macmillan Pub Co, 1993 A great book to find lists for various baseball records + The BEST I've got the 1981 edition of this book and find it invaluable for locating not only the current holder of various records but also previous record holders and players who came close. It has a great index that shows all records and lists where a player is included. A must have for trivia buffs.             Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt: Baseball Stories1 review W. P. Kinsella Houghton Mifflin (T), 1988 This is now re-titled "Go The Distance" Now available as "Go The Distance", this book contains interesting, but generally depressing, short stories ... far from Kinsella's best, but better than average stories.             If I Never Get Back55 reviews Darryl Brock Ballantine Books, 1991 The Boys Of Summer...Summer Of 1869 That Is.... + one of the best + I *** LOVE *** this book! + Best baseball novel ever + Best Ever             Stengel: His Life and Times8 reviews Robert W. Creamer University of Nebraska Press, 1996 Stengel was great and so is Creamer. + Casey was a character + Great Reading + Straightforward and Entertaining + New Insights on an Old Favorite             The Unforgettable Season2 reviews Gordon H. Fleming Henry Holt & Co, 1981 Chance, Merkle, and Mathewson in the Greatest Pennant Race + Dramatic Pennant Race Capped By Merkle's Miscue Read about the 1908 season from the perspective of a newpaper reader in the early 20th century. A facinating book, of interest to the historian as well as the baseball fan. The newspaper accounts of Merkle's disasterous decision that cost the NY Giants the pennent are priceless.             The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary11 reviews Paul Dickson Harvest Books, 1999 A must have for the serious baseball fan! + Book Ordered/Great Price + Great Book ! + Great Book ! + Clear, Concise, Helpful             The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract86 reviews Bill James Free Press, 2001 the man and the work that put sabermetrics on the map + Very good book + The All-About Baseball Book + Classic             Everything Baseball1 review James Mote Prentice Hall, 1991 You MUST own this book! This is quite simply the greatest collection of non-stat related information on Baseball ever! If you love Baseball, you MUST own this book!             This Copyrighted Broadcast15 reviews Greenwald Duane Press, 1999 Thanks for the memories Hank......... + I remember Hank from the mid 80's and the Giant's broadcasts. None better. + This book is like turning Hank on the radio! + Not THAT dirty! + Good stuff from Hank             Babe: The Legend Comes to Life22 reviews Robert Creamer Simon & Schuster, 1992 Writing by a true fan of the greatest game + The Sultan of Swat + Babe: The Legend Comes To Life + Glory Of His Time + This is not the Tom Meany biography of my youth.             The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.25 reviews Robert Coover Plume, 1971 Book review + Intellectually brilliant but humanly lacking + The Boxscores Were Enough + Homo Ludens + A Brilliant Allegory of Something or Other             You Gotta Have Wa25 reviews Robert Whiting Vintage, 1990 Japanese Baseball Demystified + Baseball and culture + Homu Ran! With the influx of Japanese stars into the US Major Leagues, many sports fans are becoming intrigued by the league across the Pacific and the ballplayers who play in it. Reading this book, along with Mr. Whiting's two others, Chrysanthemum at the Bat and The Meaning of Ichiro, will give you the ...             Iowa Baseball Confederacy33 reviews W.P. Kinsella Ballantine Books, 1996 Another Classic Baseball Novel + true imagination + A Classic! + Wonderful Baseball Fantasy             The Official Rules of Baseball7 reviews David Nemec The Lyons Press, 1994 Best Book I've Read on This Subject + Decent Coverage + Best book on the history of baseball. + Surprise, surprise             Ball Four92 reviews Jim Bouton Wiley, 1990 the first to expose how players used the groupies + Funny, Profane and Honest. Play Ball + important book + Ball Four was a HIt + Knee Surgery Gift             Nine Innings20 reviews Daniel Okrent Houghton Mifflin, 2000 Nine Innings- + 25 years later, still doesn't feel dated + Great! Make Another One! I read this book back in 1998, when I was getting back into baseball. To read it is to enjoy a baseball game, just the same as if you are in the stands, pitch by pitch. It gave me all the background that I was interested in ( 40 man vs 25 man roster, free agency rules though those need to be ...             America's Game3 reviews Tim Kurkjian Crown, 2000 AMERICA'S GAME IS A FAN'S DREAM + This book ROCKS! + Brings the game to life! This 32-page book is perfect for the beginning fan or life-long fan. The enclosed documents,letters, tickets are a MUST-SEE because they can only be viewed at Baseball's Hall of Fame & Museum. Now you have perfect copies of your own! So MUCH info in a small, but beautiful package.