Saturday, October 14, 2006

Best Baseball Books I Remember Reading



October 1964 by David Halberstam
Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ball Four by Jim Bouton (The Bad Guy in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye)
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
Joe Dimaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Summer Game by Roger Angell
Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-1964 by Peter Golenbock
Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote

2 comments:

pasd137 said...

What about Matthew Christopher???
http://www.amazon.com/Homers-Matt-Christopher-Sports-Classics/dp/0316139874/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_txt/102-7027903-6396930?ie=UTF8

No Name said...

That is a blast from the past dude. What's even more is looking at the lists of kids books that people make on amazon. Kids books are way better than adult books.