Favorite Baseball Book

[BaseballMan]

My latest list of baseball audible books .

Ahead of the Curve by Brian Kenney
The Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman
Ballpark by Paul Goldberger
Baseball in '41 by Robert Creamer
Baseball in the Garden Of Eden by John Thorn
The Betrayal by Charles Fountain
The Big Bam by Leigh Montville
The Called Shot by Thomas Wolf
Casey Stengel by Marty Appel
Charlie Hustle by Keith O'Brien
Cheated by Andy Martino
The Chicago Cubs by Rich Cohen
Chris Von der Ahe and the St. Louis Browns by J. Thomas Hetrick
Chumps to Champs by Bill Pennigton
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic by Jason Turbow
Fall from Grace by Tim Hornbaker
Fifty-Nine in '84 by Edward Achorn
The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter
Honus Wagner by Dennis DeValeria and Jeanne DeValeria
How Baseball Happened by Thomas W. Gilbert
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is burning by Jonathan Mahler
The Last Boy by Jane Leavy
The Last Hero by Howard Bryant
Luckiest Man by Jonathan Elg
The New York Game by Kevin Baker
October 1964 by David Halberstam
Opening Day by Jonathan Elg
Our Game by Charles C. Alexander
Pinstripe Empire by Marty Appel
Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson
Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime by Bruce Markusen
Rogers Hornsby by Charles C. Alexander
Stan Musial by George Vecsey
Steinbrenner by Bill Madden
Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey by Edward Achorn
Tales from the Deadball Era by Mark S. Halton
Ty Cobb A Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen
Walter Johnson by Henry W. Thomas
Wille Mays by James S. Hirsch
Yogi by Jon Pessah
Baseball: The Movie by Noah Gittell
The Baseball 100: Joe Posnanski
The Big Fella by Jane Leavy
Eight Men Out Elliot Asinof
The Grandest Stage by Tyler Kepner
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told by Jeff Silverman
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Playing for Keeps by Warren Goldstein
Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats by The National Baseball Museum
Why We Love Baseball: Joe Posnanski

[ashokkumar]

My favorite Baseball book is Moneyball. It is written by Michael Lewis. This book has completely changed my life. It influences most of my daily life.

[BaseballMan]

Sometimes i wish Total Baseball and The Sports Encyclopedia Baseball
were still printed every year. Yeah i know most of the new stuff would just be the latest season. Still its a somewhat different feeling to just sit down with a book than stare at a computer screen.
Though i know cost will keep the books from coming back.
It would be great if they did.
Maybe they could update things we know or write different recaps.
If you just have the same information you can get online or in past versions then it would probably not sell.
Still it would be nice if the books returned.
I appreciate the fact that i can get baseball information online to use as i need but its also wonderful to just have it in print.
I don't know if i'm the only one but sometimes i would rather sit down in a comfy chair with a nice cup of coffee and just explore a Baseball Encyclopedia than staring at a computer screen.
Maybe its easier on the eyes but i think its more to the fact that you can get easily distracted online than you do just reading a hardcover book.

[Cod]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

Sometimes i wish Total Baseball and The Sports Encyclopedia Baseball
were still printed every year. Yeah i know most of the new stuff would just be the latest season. Still its a somewhat different feeling to just sit down with a book than stare at a computer screen.
Though i know cost will keep the books from coming back.
It would be great if they did.
Maybe they could update things we know or write different recaps.
If you just have the same information you can get online or in past versions then it would probably not sell.
Still it would be nice if the books returned.
I appreciate the fact that i can get baseball information online to use as i need but its also wonderful to just have it in print.
I don't know if i'm the only one but sometimes i would rather sit down in a comfy chair with a nice cup of coffee and just explore a Baseball Encyclopedia than staring at a computer screen.
Maybe its easier on the eyes but i think its more to the fact that you can get easily distracted online than you do just reading a hardcover book.

You're not the only one. I was sadden by the news a few years ago that the Bill James' Handbook was no longer going to be produced. The last yearly release I'm still able to get a paperback of is BA's Prospect Handbook and it will be a very sad day when they quite releasing that.