Here's a thread I've been wanting to start for some time: what are your favourite baseball books? (Other than Baseball Prospectus, Moneyball, and the Bill James collection, of course.)
I'm at work right now, so I can't provide book reviews, but here's some of my favourites:
Ball Four by Jim Bouton (try to get the Ball Seven edition if you can)
The Long Season by Jim Brosnan
Roger Angell's books
Jays by Jon Caulfield (describes the 1984 season)
Diary of a Yankee Hater by Bob Marshall (written in 1981)
The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano and David Fisher (by the way: do not buy the new book by Ken Kaiser and David Fisher - I was reading some of it in the store, and it recycles anecdotes from TUSB)
Baseball Extra - I just bought this remaindered for $15; it's a collection of reprints of newspaper pages containing articles describing great baseball feats
Larry Dierker's book looks interesting (as far as I can tell, he wrote it all himself - I don't see a ghostwriter listed).
More to come later today, when I get home and have a chance to wade through my library.
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