30 for 30 (baseball books), Week 3

April 22, 2016

Recapping Tom Hoffarth’s entertaining and educational series:

April 1: The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports, by Jeff Passan
April 2: Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball, by Dan Formosa and Paul Hamburger
April 3: The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time, by Howard Megdal
April 4: The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All Time, by J.P. Hoornstra
April 5: The Selling of the Babe: The Deal that Changed Baseball and Created a Legend, by Glenn Stout
April 6: God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen, by Mitchell Nathanson
April 7: Baseball’s Game Changers, by George Castle
April 8: Baseball History for Kids: America at Bat from 1900 to Today, by Richard Panchyk
April 9: Finley Ball: How Two Baseball Outsiders Turned the Oakland A’s into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever, by Nancy Finley
April 10: Hometown Heroes: The Single Franchise Baseball Stars of the 20^th Century, by Clay Sigg
April 11: Baseball and the Law: Cases and Materials, by Louis H. Schiff and Robert M. Jarvis
April 12: The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League, by Robert B. Ross
April 13: Baseball’s Power Shift: How the Players Union, the Fans and the Media Changed American Sports Culture, by Krister Swanson
April 14: Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League, by Douglas M. Branson
April 15: Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player, by Danny Peary (note: this entry carries additional titles in honor of Jackie Robinson Day)
April 16: The Dodgers and Me, by Leo Durocher
April 17: The Little General: Gene Mauch, A Baseball Life, by Mel Proctor
April 18: I’m Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love, by Tim Kurkjian
April 19: Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life, Ron Darling, with Daniel Paisner
April 20: Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats, by Dirk Lammers
April 21: New baseball fiction, by David Duchovny, T.T Monday, Harry Turtledove, Jeff Polman, and Bill Beverly
April 22: The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team, by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller

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