Current Baseball Publications, a comprehensive quarterly list compiled by SABR’s Rich Arpi.
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General: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Al Santasiere Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample. The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, by Glenn Stout and Richard Johnson Science of Hitting, […]
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Sorry, a little late on this one. Holiday, and all. *** General: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis Yankee Stadium, the Official Retrospective, by Al Santasiere Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H.A. Dorfman […]
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General: Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed, by J.C. Bradbury The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition. The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H A Dorfman Essays and Writings: Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the […]
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General: Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. Essays and Writings: Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. Ball Four, by Jim Bouton. The New Bill James Baseball Abstract. […]
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This site offers dozens of reviews of baseball titles written by readers like ourselves (Scroll down to “sports”; there’s a link specifically for baseball titles). Typically, the publisher’s press release tops the individual page, followed by reader reviews and ratings. Think Amazon.com without all the ordering information and clutter. Like most criticism, the reviews can […]
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General: Moneyball, by Michael Lewis Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams and John Underwood. Essays and Writings: Ball Four, by Jim Bouton. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book. The Mental […]
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From BookClubClassics.com, this list of fiction and non-fiction classics. No reviews, just links to Amazon.
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General: Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. T Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. Living in the Black, by John Feinstein. Yankee Stadium: A Tribute: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008, by Les Krantz. The 33-Year Old Rookie, by Chris Coste Essays and Writings: You Can Learn a […]
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From Philosopher Stone.
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I was planning to do my own analysis of Derek Gentiles recent title, Baseball’s Best 1,000: Rankings of the Skills, the Achievements, and the Performance of the Greatest Players of All Time. One thousand? seems like a mighty task Mr. Gentile has undertaken. Would you mind being the last on that list? After all, there […]
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General: Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. The passing of the former ballplayer puts this one on top. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil. The closing of the ballpark makes this subgenre hot. But why don’t they wait until the final season is over, which would complete […]
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In a May 3 piece for The Wall Street Journal, Dawidoff — author The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg and, the just-released The Crowd Sounds Happy — lists his top choices in the genre: You Know Me, Al by Ring Lardner The Natural, by Bernard Malamud The Universal Baseball Association, […]
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From AskMen.com, five obscure facts (well, perhaps for those who visit such Web sites, rather than read about the game): Early MLB teams were not distinguished by their jerseys Jackie Robinson was not the MLB’s first black player The MLB has a long tradition of cheating The MLB’s rules used to allow one side of […]
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Alex Belth appends his theme of essential baseball books, with lists from Richard Sandomir, The New York Times‘ sports media columnist and Roger Kahn, along with a slew of comments.
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The Bullpen section of Baseball-Reference.com (“Baseball’s collaborative encyclopedia”) published this list of 130 books (with links) that deal with baseball. Not sure of the criteria or why that specific number, but it’s there for the browsing.
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Several bloggers have weighed in on the Bronx Banter’s theme of essential (not greatest or best) baseball books, including: Brew Crew Ball Steve Rubio’s Online Life Baseball Mud Nothing earth-shattering here, just some more lists, FYI.
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The Phillies catcher/author has the best-selling baseball book at the moment, according to Amazon.com. The only other baseball title is Cubs Forever: Memories from the Men Who Lived Them, by Bob Vorwald (not bad considering it’s not even in stock yet.) Coste’s auto-bio, The 33-Year-Old Rookieis ranked #1 in biographies & memoirs/biographies/baseball; History/United States/State & […]
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is available on Amazon.com,
