22 Best Baseball Books
Goal: Find the best Baseball books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best baseball books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
22 Best Baseball Books
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The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn
The Glory of Their Times
The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
by Lawrence S. Ritter
Cardboard Gods
An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
by Josh Wilker
Five Seasons
A Baseball Companion
by Roger Angell
The Numbers Game
Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
by Alan Schwarz
The Soul of Baseball
A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
by Joe Posnanski
Baseball
An Illustrated History
by Geoffrey C. Ward
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
The Secret History of the Early Game
by John Thorn
Baseball's Great Experiment
Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
by Jules Tygiel
Joe DiMaggio
The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
October 1964
by David Halberstam
Only the Ball Was White
A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
by Robert Peterson
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam
The Bronx Zoo
The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees
by Sparky Lyle
The Last Boy
Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by Jane Leavy
The Lords of the Realm
The Real History of Baseball
by John Helyar
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
by Bill James
The Summer Game
by Roger Angell
Veeck As In Wreck
The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
by Bill Veeck
Wait Till Next Year
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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