Baseball's Best Books

Some fiction, some non, but all favorite books about America's favorite past time.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Shoeless Joe
W. P. Kinsella
Ebook
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: "A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction." --The New York Times Book Review   One of Sports Illustrated's 100 Greatest Sports Books   "If you build it, he will come."...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
Paper Book
"One of the best baseball--and management--books out.... Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."--Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy...
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
Howard Bryant
Paper Book
In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five...

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