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The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It 72 reviews
Lawrence S. Ritter
Harper Paperbacks, 1992
Baseball's Old Testament
+ Lives Up To The Hype - The Best Baseball Book Ever
+ The Holy Grail of all Baseball Books
+ Historical treasure
+ Greatest Sports Book Ever Written!!!
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Summer of '49 (Perennial Classics) 52 reviews
David Halberstam
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
Summer of 49
+ Simply put, A Great Author at his Best!!!
+ Baseball. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Halberstam. It's the Triple Crown.
+ Excellently Done
+ A pleasant distraction.
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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
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Nine Innings20 reviews
Daniel Okrent
Mariner Books, 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 ...
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Past Time: Baseball As History6 reviews
Jules Tygiel
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Baseball as America, because Baseball is America
+ Move Over, Herodotus
+ Fascinating
+ provocative, enjoyable synthesis of baseball and history
+ The Best
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Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years12 reviews
Red Smith
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000
great baseball writer reminiscences
+ They don't write columns like this anymore
+ nice collection of Smith columns
+ none better
+ Good writing should get better book production
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I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story22 reviews
Hank Aaron
HarperTorch, 1992
One of the best sports autobiographies ever
+ Still the greatest home run hitter ever.
+ Mr Aaron is a very humble, decent man
+ Great book about a true baseball hero: Hank Aaron.
+ A Legendary Man of Athletic Ability and Integrity for Mankind
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game381 reviews
Michael Lewis
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
A Brilliant Achievement
+ Leadership Classic
+ Excellent
+ This is what happens when you question assumptions
+ Baseball Market
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball50 reviews
George F. Will
Harper Paperbacks, 1991
Inside the National Pastime
+ Great Information
+ Intro to Baseball- Required Reading List
+ Basic enough, even for me.
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The Summer Game (Bison Book)8 reviews
Roger Angell
Bison Books, 2004
The Bard of Baseball
+ YES, HE IS THE POET LAUREATE OF BASEBALL
+ Now back in print
+ best-written baseball book I have yet found
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Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck18 reviews
Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
University Of Chicago Press, 2001
A Baseball Storyteller
+ Divine Diamond Madness
+ The hundredth read's as good as the first
+ A great gift
+ Simply the best book EVER written on the inside of baseball
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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
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Bang the Drum Slowly (Second Edition)14 reviews
Bison Books, 2003
This book and the movie are special
+ Life Changing
+ When Baseball Was Still a Game
+ Fantastic Book. For baseball fans, and those who aren't
+ Bang The Drum Slowly by Joe
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract88 reviews
Bill James
Free Press, 2003
the man and the work that put sabermetrics on the map
+ Insightful and Entertaining, but Win Shares needs an overhaul
+ The essential baseball book
+ An awesome book to have on your shelf
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The Boys of Summer40 reviews
Roger Kahn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
The Book That Made Me A Baseball Fan
+ The Great American Game
+ We are all "Boys of Summer".
+ Absolute classic
+ The Best Baseball Book Ever
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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
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Nine Innings20 reviews
Daniel Okrent
Mariner Books, 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 ...
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Bang the Drum Slowly (Second Edition)14 reviews
Bison Books, 2003
This book and the movie are special
+ Life Changing
+ When Baseball Was Still a Game
+ Fantastic Book. For baseball fans, and those who aren't
+ Bang The Drum Slowly by Joe
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball50 reviews
George F. Will
Harper Paperbacks, 1991
Inside the National Pastime
+ Great Information
+ Intro to Baseball- Required Reading List
+ Basic enough, even for me.
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The Summer Game (Bison Book)8 reviews
Roger Angell
Bison Books, 2004
The Bard of Baseball
+ YES, HE IS THE POET LAUREATE OF BASEBALL
+ Now back in print
+ best-written baseball book I have yet found
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