 | Teammates, The: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Often portrayed as temperamental and aloofness, Ted Williams actually maintained a lifelong relationship with Johnny Pesky, Dom Dimaggio and other teammates.
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 | Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.70 Eig shows what a shy man Gehrig was and how close he was to his mother.
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 | Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams by Robert Peterson
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $2.91 Did you know that black players did participate in the majors before Jackie Robinson?
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 | Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story by Jim Piersall
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $8.84 One of the greatest centerfielders of all time suffers a nervous breakdown in the public eye.
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 | A false spring by Pat Jordan
Buy used from: $0.13 The best book about how tough it is to wade through the pitfalls of the minor leagues.
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 | Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist by Alan Howard Levy
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $19.95 The first of the baseball clowns and also possibly the greatest pitcher to ever take the mound.
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 | Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.93 Reveals how the White Sox owner was partially responsible.
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 | The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Backup major league catcher for fifteen years, also worked for the OSS during WWII.
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 | Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump
Buy used from: $1.86 Cobb was just as cantankerous in old age as when he played. This is the book upon which the movie starring Tommy Lee Jones was based.
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 | The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Buy used from: $0.01 My first recollection involving baseball was the 1955 World Series involving the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yanks. The Dodgers were the Boys of Summer.
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 | Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck
Buy new: $10.06 / Used from: $4.50 The greatest of the baseball showmen.
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| True Confessions by J Minokur
Buy used from: $85.29 I used to watch old Diz on the game of the week. I didn't know what a treasure he was.
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 | Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years by Red Smith
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.83 The greatest baseball writer of all time.
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 | The Story of Jackie Robinson: Bravest Man in Baseball (Dell Yearling Biography) by Margaret Davidson
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Had to be twice as good as the white players to stay in the majors.
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 | Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball by Burt Solomon
Buy used from: $0.01 These guys knew how to cheat!
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 | The 2003 Bill James Handbook (2002 statistics) by Barry Zito
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $6.95 This is a book you will like to browse around in, even though James does take baseball a little TOO seriously.
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 | The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball: An All-Star Lineup Celebrates America's National Pastime
Buy used from: $0.01 Another browser. Articles by John Updike among others.
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 | Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
Buy used from: $0.01 Apparently he wasn't the man we thought he was.
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 | Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 The greatest pitcher I ever saw and I've been a fan for almost fifty years.
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 | Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky
Buy used from: $4.46 As interesting a character as he was a ball player.
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 | Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train by Henry W. Thomas
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $7.59 Most baseball authorities consider the Big Train the best right hander of all time.
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 | Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from the Twenties to the Forties, Told by the Men Who Played It by Donald Honig
Buy used from: $1.51 I love to read about the oldtimers.
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 | Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.40 Can you believe some people picked somebody else as the greatest athlete of the 20th century?
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| The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
Buy used from: $5.00 This one goes back to the turn of the century.
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 | Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.29 Probably the best of the modern baseball books. Bouton shows what goes on behind the scenes.
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 | Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time by Ray Robinson
Buy new: $12.83 / Used from: $0.01 How many records would he have set if he hadn't died so young?
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| My Sixty-Six Years in the Big Leagues by Connie MacK
Connie Mack was a major league catcher before he set all the won-loss records for major league managers. The original mercenary owner.
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