 | The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $1.10 All other oral history compilations pale before this one!
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 | Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.23 Read this to understand the Babe
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 | Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck
Buy new: $10.02 / Used from: $6.22 Fascinating and funny view of baseball from an executive's standpoint in the mid-twentieth century
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 | The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $8.91 Nobody does statistical analysis like Bill James
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 | Pitching in a Pinch: or Baseball from the Inside (Bison Book) by Christy Mathewson
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $5.50 Fascinating portrait of baseball that makes the deadball period come alive
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 | My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (Fireside Sports Classics) by Ted Williams
Buy new: $17.91 / Used from: $0.01 A fascinating life both in and out of baseball
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 | Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.74 One of the best biographies of any kind I have read. Even those with only a passing interest in baseball will love it!
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 | Summer of '49 (P.S.) by David Halberstam
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $1.73 Another great snapshot of an era
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 | Stengel: His Life and Times by Robert W. Creamer
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $9.91 More great baseball history
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 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.01 Bill Jame's theories in action in MLB
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 | Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 Self-serving at times, but fun and an eye opener to the world of our heroes!
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 | John McGraw by Charles C. Alexander
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $7.05 |
 | Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.31 The term "Larger Than Life" was made for Ted Williams
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 | Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting
Buy used from: $0.01 Culture clash on the baseball field from a seventies and eighties perspective.
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 | Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 I may not agree with his politics, but he delivers a wonderful perpective on the craft and skills of baseball players.
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