Coming down the pike: A occasional report

Another look at some of the baseball books to look forward to for the rest of the year and beyond, via Amazon.

No claims that this is a complete list. No bells and whistles this time. And no books that come out annually, such as the Baseball America almanac, prospects, etc.

Winning Fixes Everything: The Rise and Fall of the Houston Astros, by Evan Drellich (June 2022)
Charlie Murphy: The Iconoclastic Showman Behind the Chicago Cubs, by Jason Cannon (June 2022)
Lefty and Tim: How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver Became Baseball’s Best Battery, by William C. Kashatus and Larry Christenson (June 2022)
Baseball’s Ultimate Power: Ranking The All-Time Greatest Distance Home Run Hitters, by Bill Jenkinson (June 2022)
Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant (May 2022)
The Best of Memories & Dreams, by The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (A collection culled from the Hall’s newsletters, May 2022)
Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me, by Paul O’Neill and Jack Curry (May 2022)
The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self, by Dale Scott, Rob Neyer, et al. (May 2022)
Smart, Wrong, and Lucky: Scouting Baseball’s Unexpected Stars, by Jonathan Mayo (April 2022)
· Grassroots Baseball: Route 66, Photos by Jean Fruth (April 202Playing Through the Pain: Ken Caminiti and the Steroids Confession That Changed Baseball Forever, by Dan Good (April 2022)
Dingers: The 101 Most Memorable Home Runs in Baseball History, by Joshua Shifrin and Tommy Shea (April 2022 but originally published in 2016; there is no indication that this is an update, though I can’t imagine it’s just a reprint considering how other “memorable home runs” must have been hit since then)
In Scoring Position: 40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair, by Bob Ryan and Bill Chuck (April 2022)
Jim Kaat: Good As Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball, by Jim Kaat and Douglas B. Lyons (April 2022)
Baseball’s Best Ever, by Ira Berkow (April 2022)
Stumbling around the Bases: The American League’s Mismanagement in the Expansion Eras, by Andy McCue (April 2022)
Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend, by Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker (April 2022)
Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America, by Peter Dreier (April 2022)
Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War, by Chris Lamb (April 2022)
Last Time Out: Big League Farewells of Baseball’s Great, by John Nogowski (April 2022, Updated edition)
The Ultimate Detroit Tigers Time Machine Book, by Martin Gitlin (April 2022)
The Ultimate New York Yankees Time Machine Book, by Martin Gitlin (April 2022zHow to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink, by Pedro Moura (March 2022)
The Saga of Sudden Sam: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Sam McDowell, by Sam McDowell and Martin Gitlin (March 2022)
Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles over Workers’ Rights and American Empire, by Robert Elias and Peter Dreier (March 2022)
Classic Baseball: Timeless Tales, Immortal Moments, by John Rosengren (March 2022)
Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It, by Peter Golenbock (February 2022)
Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball, by Doug Wedge (February 2022)
Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta―and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports, by Clayton Trutor (February 2022)
Lore of the Bambino: 100 Great Babe Ruth Stories, by Jonathan Weeks (February 2022)
Johnny Mize: A Biography of Baseball’s “Big Cat”, by Lew Freedman (January 2022)
Baseball’s Most Bizarre Plays: A Roster of the Odd, the Improbable and the Downright Confounding in Major League History, by Alan Hirsch (January 2022)
Hebrew Hammer: A Biography of Al Rosen, All-Star Third Baseman, by Joseph Wancho (January 2022)
American Legion Baseball: A History, 1924-2020, by William E. Akin (January 2022)
Candy Cummings: The Life and Career of the Inventor of the Curveball, by Stephen Robert Katz (January 2022)
Pee Wee Reese: The Life of a Brooklyn Dodger, by Glen Sparks (January 2022)
After Jackie: Fifteen Pioneers Who Helped Change the Face of Baseball, by Jeffrey S. Copeland (January 2022)
The Baseball Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History, by Aaron Baker (January 2022)
Farewell to Flatbush: The 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers, by Ronnie Joyner (December 2021)
A Brand New Ballgame: Branch Rickey, Bill Veeck, Walter O’Malley and the Transformation of Baseball, 1945-1962, by G. Scott Thomas (December 2021)
Canadian Minor League Baseball: A History Since World War II, by Jon C. Stott (December 2021)
Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations, by Gabriel B. Costa (November 2021)

FWIW, I’m particularly looking forward to, in no particular order, the new books by Bryant, Mayo, Rosengren, Berkow, and Golenbock because I know and like their work, as well as The Baseball Film, Hebrew Hammer, Grassroots Baseball, and Baseball’s Most Bizarre Plays, because of the topics.