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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
A couple books I don’t know I’ve seen yet:
Dollar Sign On The Muscle: A look at “old school”, pre-Moneyball scouting. I feel like reading this will a. make you want the scouting system in OOTP tweaked a lot and b. make you want to not listen to scouts so much (although it’s by no means an anti-scouting book).
Crazy 08: A really fun book about the 1908 pennant race, which is the one with the Merkle Boner.
The Old Ball Game: Frank Deford’s book about Marty and McGraw and the early 1900s Giants.
Only The Ball Was White: A history of Black ball players and all-Black baseball teams.
Lords of the Realm: Kind of, for me, the Lies My Teacher Told Me of baseball: the book that opened my eyes to the real history of baseball and especially the strife between the players and owners.
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Crazy 08 was on my list for my next audible book.
I'll look into "The old ball Game"