Submitted for your convenience, the run of this year’s 30-30 as per Tom Hoffarth’s Farther off the Wall blog:
Day 1 – Mover and Shaker, by McCue
- Day 2 — Where Nobody Knows Your Name, by Feinstein
- Day 3 — Babe Ruth’s Called Shot, by Sherman
- Day 4 — A Nice Little Place on the North Side, by Will
- Day 5 — Bring in the Right-Hander!, by Reuss
- Day 6 – The Fight of Their Lives, by Rosengren
- Day 7 — Outsider Baseball, by Simkus
- Day 8 — Bigger Than the Game: Restitching a Major League Life, by Hayhurst
- Day 9 — The Bilko Athletic Club, by White
- Day 10 — They Called Me God, by Harvey and Golenbock
- Day 11 – Up, Up and Away (Expos), by Keri
- Day 12 – If These Walls Could Talk: Los Angeles Dodgers, by Mitchell
- Day 13 – The Devil’s Snake Curve, by Ostergaard
- Day 14 – Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, by Kennedy (with a nod to the Bookshelf)
- Day 15 – Jackie and Campy, by Kashatus
- Day 16 – When Baseball Went White, by Swanson
- Day 17 – How to Speak Baseball, by Charlton, Cook, and MacDonald
- Day 18 – Million Dollar Arm, by Bernstein
- Day 19 – The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession, by Huhn
- Day 20 – The Continental League: A Personal History, by Buhite
- Day 21 – Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson, by Wilson
- Day 22 – Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game is Really Played, by Kendall with Judge
- Day 23 – Nine Bucks A Pound, by Bailey
- Day 24 – Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76, by Epstein
- Day 25 – 1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever, by Madden
- Day 26 – Down to the Last Pitch: How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time, by Wendel
- Day 27 – Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher, by Goldman
- Day 28 – Rage: The Legend of ‘Baseball Bill’ Denehy, by Denehy with Golenbock
- Day 29 – The Most Wonderful Week of the Year, by Berger
- Day 30 – How Baseball Explains America, by Bodley
- Encore – “Those books we either did not get to, arrived too late to review, or we know are out there but have not seen them.”
And just because I can — and am feeling nostalgic — here’s what Hoffarth posted last year about 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die, which is the only way I’ll ever get into a 30-30 club.
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