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Dec 28, 2021 · The rest is history. -- Adam McCalvy. "Summer of '49" by David Halberstam. "Summer of '49" presents the idea of baseball as a microcosm of society at the time. David Halberstam places the Yankees-Red Sox American League pennant race and the Joe DiMaggio-Ted Williams rivalry in the context of post-World War II America.
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- The Boys of Summer – The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field. ✍️ Author: Roger Kahn. 📆 Year Published: 1972. 📘 Genre: History, Biographies and Autobiographies.
- Ball Four – The Final Pitch. ✍️ Author: Jim Bouton. 📆 Year Published: 1970. 📘 Genre: Biographies and Autobiographies. Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” broke the silence on the reality of professional baseball, forever changing how the game was perceived by fans.
- The Glory of Their Times – The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. ✍️ Author: Lawrence S. Ritter. 📆 Year Published: 1966.
- Moneyball – The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. ✍️ Author: Michael Lewis. 📆 Year Published: 2003. 📘 Genre: Biographies and Autobiographies, Strategy and Coaching, History.
Nov 30, 2021 · Essential. Brand: Little Brown n Co (T) The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading & Bubblegum Book, by Brendan Boyd. $50 at Amazon. There might be funnier books—we can always argue ...
- Moneyball. The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Michael Lewis | 5.00. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball.
- Ball Four. The Final Pitch. Jim Bouton | 4.64. The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton. When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt.
- The Glory of Their Times. The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. Lawrence S Ritter | 4.51. Baseball was different in earlier days—tougher, rawer, more intimate—when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases.
- The Boys of Summer. Roger Kahn | 4.41. This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson.
Jan 22, 2024 · 3. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches. Author: Tyler Kepner. Published: April 2019. One of the best baseball books of 2019. Kepner weaves a joyous story of baseball through 10 chapters, each identified by a pitch: slider, fastball, curveball, knuckleball, splitter, screwball, sinker, changeup, spitball and cutter.
Showing 1-10 of 10 (10 new) 123 books based on 185 votes: The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, At The Bat: The Strikeo...
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Mar 17, 2004 · Moneyball. The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Michael Lewis - Mar 17, 2004 (first published in 2003) Goodreads Rating. 4.3 (130k) Nonfiction Sports Baseball Business. Discover how Billy Beane, the general manager of a struggling Major League Baseball team, defied traditional scouting methods and built a winning team on a tight budget by relying ...
