Comments on: Best baseball books

By: baseball Bats Lover

baseball Bats Lover — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:37:58 +0000

Ball Four is one my favorite books.

By: Forex Autopilot

Forex Autopilot — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:08:09 +0000

I’ve read the Boys of Summer and I thought it was incredible and I am not even that big of a baseball fan.

By: Randall

Randall — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:51:14 +0000

I’ve only read #1 and #2, and they were both great.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:54:30 +0000

I would have to put “Sesasons In Hell” by Mike Shropshire well above most of the Bill James books.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:44:43 +0000

I’m not much of a baseball guy but I do love history so I’ll check out Babe, Joe DiMaggio, and The Boys of Summer.

It seems like back then baseball reflected what was going on in the rest of the country. Players were going to war, gambling was prominent, racial tensions. If the country was in a recession then so were the sports teams and athletes. Now there’s nothing about the professional athlete that is representative of the common person.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:37:57 +0000

I really enjoyed “The Catcher Was a Spy” by Nicholas Dawidoff. It is about the life of Moe Berg. It’s a good mixture of baseball and espionage.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:17:39 +0000

All those books by Bill James and no Money Ball?

I think Money Ball was his best!