The National Pastime Museum website offers a collection of essays on My Favorite Baseball Books. The list includes many of the best-known titles as assessed by writers, critics, and other baseball savants. Among them:
- Bang the Drum Slowly, by Joe Schuster, author of The Might Have Been: A Novel
- The Natural, by Ryan Swanson, author of When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime
- A Day In The Bleachers, by Mark Armour, author of several baseball tomes
- Veeck As in Wreck: The Chaotic Career of Baseball’s Incorrigible Maverick, by Paul Dickson, author of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary and a forthcoming bio on Leo Durocher
- Shoeless Joe, by Tim Wendel
- Lou Gehrig, A Quiet Hero, by Marty Appel
- Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams, by Larry Lester
- Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers, by Rob Neyer
There are about another 10 essays, each describing how the respective titles “changed the life” of each of the contributors. Fascinating stuff.
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