From the category archives:

Team Bibliography

I previously posted on books about the World Series and the Cubs and Indians. Here’s a story from the Chicago Tribune on how the local booksellers and libraries are having a grand time of it all.

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Meet the Mets (Books)

January 11, 2016 · 1 comment

I don’t know who Matthew Price is, but he recently contributed this piece which appeared on the Newsday website on “11 books every New York Mets fan should read.” As a fan of the team myself, I believe every Mets devotee should read just about every book they can on the ball club, so I […]

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Marty Appel, former director of public relations for the New York Yankees during the tumultuous 1970s, has, to my mind, one of the dream jobs. These days he runs his own PR company and has his finger in many pies. As an author, his recent biography, Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, […]

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* Congrats to the Phils

October 22, 2009

Looks like Jayson Stark will be coming out with a new edition next year. More titles about the Phillies include: View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies, by Chris Wheeler Phillies Confidential: The Untold Inside Story of the 2008 Championship Season, “by” Gary Matthews More Than Beards, Bellies and Biceps: The Story of […]

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* TWIBB — Aug. 28

August 28, 2009

This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, August 21. Title Rank General The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, Posnanski 1 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Lewis 2 The Yankee Years, Torre and […]

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* Birdie books

April 1, 2008

Granted this list of books about the Orioles comes from the University of Baltimore’s Langsdale Library, but it’s still a source for further information.

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Red Sox books, and then some

October 22, 2007

Now that the Sox are back in the Fall Classic, speculation is rampant over the effect this will have on the publishing industry. The year after the 2004 World Series victory — the team’s first in more than 85 years, David Green published 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox: And 10 Reasons to Hate […]

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The August edition includes: Reviews on Baseball Confidential: Secret History of the War Among Chandler, Durocher, MacPhail, and Rickey; The Lords of Baseball; and 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman A History of Cuban Baseball, 1864-2006 An annotated bibliography on Yankees books “What One Book” Survey (Note: Requires […]

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A by-no-means complete, annotated (in some cases) bibliography of books about the Baltimore Orioles and their incarnations. (Note: This is only a list of books about the team in general. It does not include biographies of the team’s players, managers, front office personnel, etc.) Baltimore Orioles: Where Have You Gone? by Jeff Seidel (Sports Publications, […]

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