 | Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.48 the greatest of baseball's inconclastic bad boys and the best "tell all" baseball book
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 | Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $8.04 maverick club owner and colorful showman - Veeck was one of a kind
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 | The Wrong Stuff by Bill Lee
Buy used from: $0.01 the Spaceman of the diamond - baseball's greatest flake
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 | Have Glove, Will Travel: Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond by Bill Lee
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $0.09 the further adventures of the Spaceman - baseball's flakiest
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 | Stengel: His Life and Times by Robert W. Creamer
Buy new: $22.46 / Used from: $3.75 folk hero manager-philosopher
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 | Maybe I'll Pitch Forever by Leroy Paige
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $4.00 perhaps the greatest pitcher ever to play the game, and baseball's comic philosopher tells his own tale
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 | Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $32.49 another take on the whilely legend
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 | John McGraw by Charles C. Alexander
Buy new: $26.96 / Used from: $11.50 as tough and colorful as he was great
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 | Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.98 not only was the Babe baseball's greatest player, he was one of its greatest characters
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 | Cobb
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.12 outstanding movie adaptation of the book; Tommy Lee Jones shines as the despicable Cobb
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 | Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin by Peter Golenbock
Buy used from: $3.97 tempestuous and charismatic, perhaps the wildest bad boy manager of modern times
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 | The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees by Sparky Lyle
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.50 the talented and flakey Lyle says it all with his title
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 | Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald Hall
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $11.72 flakey pitcher who marched to the beat of a different drummer; most famous for his no hitter while tripping on LSD
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 | Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball by Doug Feldmann
Buy new: $26.96 / Used from: $14.95 the most famous team of colorful characters in the game's history
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 | Baseball's Last Dynasty: Charlie Finley's Oakland A's by Bruce Markusen
Buy used from: $33.81 Finley, colorful and controversial owner, and his team dominated the first half of the '70s with their exploits & battles
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 | Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year by Jimmy Breslin
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $5.07 baseball's most famous collection of lovable looser characters
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 | The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best by Jeff Pearlman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.95 the title says it all
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 | Slouching Toward Fargo:: A Two-Year Saga Of Sinners And St. Paul Saints At The Bottom Of The Bush Leagues With Bill Murray, Darryl Strawberry, Dakota Sadie And Me by Neal Karlen
Buy used from: $2.60 bush league characters
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 | September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies, and Racial Integration (Keystone Book) by William C. Kashatus
Buy new: $24.28 / Used from: $14.35 Allen was a great player who came to be reviled by many as baseball's biggest trouble maker; the story behind the myth
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 | Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.25 excellent book of baseball's greatest scandal and the characters & scoundrels behind it
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| Baseball Babylon by Dan Gutman
Buy used from: $7.90 a collection of the scandals & scoundrels of baseball
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 | The Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game by Don Dewey
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $11.95 the most notorious scoundrel in baseball in the early part of the 20th century
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 | Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose by Michael Sokolove
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $2.66 the greatest scandal since the Black Socks; the tale of how & why baseball's all time hits leader was banned for life
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 | Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big by Jose Canseco
Buy used from: $1.13 the sleaziest scoundrel in baseball blows the cover off of baseball's steroids scandal
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 | Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero by Jeff Pearlman
Buy used from: $0.46 the greatest player of baseball's "'Roid Era"
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