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Non-Fiction Reading - Play Ball

Baseball in Glove with HatThe Autobiography of Baseball: the inside story from the stars who played the game by Joseph E. Wallace [796.357092 WAL]

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 [796.357 PEA]

Baseball in '41: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever-In the Year America Went to War by Robert W. Creamer [796.357 CRE]

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth by Leigh Montville [BIO RUTH]

Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees by Joel Sherman [796.357 SHE]

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn [796.357 KAH]

Clearing the Bases: Juiced Players, Monster Salaries, Sham Records, and a Hall of Famer's Search for the Soul of Baseball by Mike Schmidt [796.357 SCH]

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss [BIO CLEMENTE]

Eight Men out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof [796.357 ASI]

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stewart O'Nan [796 .35764 ONA]

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada [362.29 FAI]

The Hidden Game of Baseball: A Revolutionary Approach to Baseball and Its Statistics by John Thorn [796.357 THO]

Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big by Jose Canseco [796 .357 CAN]

Juicing the Game: drugs, power, and the fight for the soul of Major League Baseball by Howard Bryant [362 .29 BRY]

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler [974.7 MAH]

Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig [796 .357 EIG]

Memories of Summer: when baseball was an art and writing about it a game by Roger Kahn [B KAHN]

Men at Work: the craft of baseball by George F. Will [796.357 WIL]

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis [796.357 LEW]

October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 by Roger Kahn [796.35709 KAH]

Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball by Frank Deford [796 .357 DEF]

Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams by Robert Peterson [796.357 PET]

The Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell [796.35709 SOW]

Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Thomas Oliphant [796.357 OLI]

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy [B KOUFAX]

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 [796.35764 KAR]

Storied Stadiums: baseball's history through its ballparks by Curt Smith [796.357068 SMI]

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam [796.357092 HAL]

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville [BIO WILLIAMS]

The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball by Leonard Koppett [796.357 KOP]

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy, inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger [796.357 BIS]

Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball by Stephen Jay Gould [796.357 GOU]

You’re Out and You’re Ugly Too by Durwood Merrill with Jim Dent [B MERRILL]

Wait Till Next Year: Summer Afternoons with My Father and Baseball by Doris Kearns Goodwin [B GOODWIN]

Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game within the Game by Jerry Remy [796 .357 REM]

When You Come To a Fork in the Road, Take it!: inspiration and wisdom from one of baseball's greatest heroes by Yogi Berra with David Kaplan [B BERRA]

Posted: 07/13/06


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