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    All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    In May 2020, we asked MLB.com reporters to name their favorite baseball book, and we broke them down in two sections below. Here is a look back at those picks.

    The top section is for books that were picked by more than one reporter, and then a second section for books that got one vote each.
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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Please share a list of your favorite books on baseball

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    All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    This is my collection save E-Books, I have a lot of those too







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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    The Teamates by David Halberstam is an awesome read finished it in 2 days. Really touches on how complex it was being friends with Ted Williams.
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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Here are a few of mine:

    Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter

    Boys of Summer by Roger Khan

    Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig

    Clemente by David Maraness

    My Life in Baseball by Robin Roberts

    Any baseball book by Roger Angell

    Any baseball boo by David Halberstam

    I'm sure I'll think of more later but that's a good start.

    Ball Four by Jim Bouton

    Veeck as in Wreck by Bill Veeck

    I had a Hammer by Hank Aaron and Lonnie Wheeler

    Catcher in the Wry by Bob Uecker
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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Hard to pick, but my baseball reading started with The Kid From Tomkinsville and The Kid Comes Back and my nom de plume Roy Tucker.
    She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    My list

    Biography - Nice Guys Finish Last - Durocher / Baseball 100 Joe Posnanski / Joe You could have done us Proud, Joe Pepitone

    Bill James Book - Historical Abstract, I have three versions, the original, updated and digital / Politics of Glory

    Essay - Five Seasons - Roger Angell / Why Time Begins on Opening Day - Thomas Boswell / Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball - Leonard Koppett

    Grab bag of Subjects - Creating the National Pastime - G Edward White / 34 Ton Bat - Steve Rushin / Diamond Appraised - Craig Wright & Tom House / Diamonds in the Rough - Joel Zoss & John Bowman / A Game of Inches - Peter Morris / The Hot Stove - Lee Allen

    19th Century - Catcher - Peter Morris / A level Playing Field - Peter Morris / Baseballs Garden of Eden - John Thorne

    Seasons - Crazy 08 - Cait Murphy / The Pitch that Killed - Mike Sowell / October 64 - David Halberstam

    Diaries - Ball Four - Bouton / A View from the Dugout - Red Ruffing / The Lost Season - Jim Brosnan

    Game diaries - Nine Innings - Daniel Okrent

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Madden View Post
    Please share a list of your favorite books on baseball
    The "Official Baseball Rules." Of particular interest is 1.05: "The objective of each team is to win by scoring more runs than the
    opponent." Should this be forwarded to the Reds' front office?

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Lots of good recommendations. There's a lot out there.

    Personally my comfort food baseball readings are the Bill James Historical Abstracts. Like woy, I have several versions and rotate through them.
    "Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010

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    If I Never Get Back. It's fiction, but you still get a lot of insight into the 1869 Red Stockings. I've read it cover to cover 4 times.

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    This is my collection save E-Books, I have a lot of those too








    Can I come hang out at your house library.

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    I have a variety of Sporting News from 1969 through 1978. Mainly during the baseball seasons. Most very good condition and good to read. The paper has held up well. Fun to read the articles on who happened to be hot that week and it was the best at covering the minor leagues.

    A lot of Reds on the cover of course. 1969 had Lee May and Bobby Tolan. 1970 with Bench. Perez. Bernie Carbo. Even one with Vada Pinson with the Indians having a good month for them so he got the cover. Still can’t believe he didn’t make it to 3000 hits but he really slowed down from 1971-74.

    The 1976 cover with the starting 8 is the best.

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    I have the same books that probably everyone else has, so let me name five of my off-the-beaten-path favorites. You'd have to do some internet sleuthing to get a copy of any of these, but it would be well worth it:

    1. I Don't Care If I Never Get Back, by Art Hill. He's a Tiger fan, but the book is mostly about the experience of being a fan. The section in which he reminisces about old Tiger broadcasters is great.

    2. Prophet of the Sandlots, by Mark Winegardner. The fascinating and ultimately tragic life of scout Tony Lucadello, who signed more major leaguers than anyone.

    3. Baseball's Greatest Quotations, by Paul Dickson. There are several books of baseball quotes, but Dickson's is the best.

    4. The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, by Boyd and Harris. Even on repeated readings, makes me laugh out loud; how many books can you say that about?

    5. Back in 1988, Surf detergent put out a paperback reprinting every Topps baseball card of a Reds player from 1952 to 1987. I find it invaluable when reading about Reds history and trying to put a name with a face.
    "In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Cloninger View Post
    Can I come hang out at your house library.
    There’s a couple of crates of paperbacks, magazines and baseball cards too.

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    Re: All-Time Favorite Baseball Books

    Quote Originally Posted by chicoruiz View Post
    Back in 1988, Surf detergent put out a paperback reprinting every Topps baseball card of a Reds player from 1952 to 1987. I find it invaluable when reading about Reds history and trying to put a name a face.
    Wow. What a treasure. I had no idea such a thing existed.
    "Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010


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