What Are Your Favorite Baseball Books?

[Mark Stryker]

Maybe I missed them above, so apologies if they've been mentioned, but Tom Boswell's first two baseball book are Hall-of-Fame worthy: How Life Imitates the World Series (1982); Why Time Begins on Opening Day (1984)

[Dave Garrett]

I have a fair number of baseball books, but if I had to pick a desert island selection, I'd be hard pressed to top the four volumes in the Fireside Book of Baseball series:

Fireside Books of Baseball and Other Sports and Games

Others that come to mind: Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times, Okrent and Lewine's The Ultimate Baseball Book, Norman Macht's massive three-volume biography of Connie Mack, and Charles Leerhsen's recent bio of Ty Cobb, a long-overdue corrective to the conventional wisdom propagated over many years by Al Stump that Cobb was a miserable human being.

[Brad]

The Fireside baseball books are outstanding.  Einstein (Charles, that is) is overlooked today. 

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, Brad said:

The Fireside baseball books are outstanding.  Einstein (Charles, that is) is overlooked today.