* Another "best book" list

August 28, 2009 · 1 comment

Larry Stone offers his list … and then some… of his favorite baseball bookss in his Seattle Times column, Hot Stone League (cute).

No. 1 is Bouton’s Ball Four. but is No. 1  (addendum) is Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, by Jane Leavy. No. 2 on the addenda is a book I don’t think gets nearly enough cred: Leonard Koppett’s The Thinking Man’s Guide to Baseball. Koppett was way ahead of his time (the first edition was released in 1967) when it comes to parsing the game. Some marketing genius decided to make the title PC and changed it to The Thinking Fan’s Guide… followed by The New Thinking Fan’s Guide.
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