America's Favorite Pastime

Take yourself out to the ballpark with these novels and nonfiction books about baseball!

Updated April 30, 2024
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The tao of the backup catcher : playing baseball for the love of the game
Brown, Tim
Paper Book
This fascinating book "reminds us of the beauty of baseball" and chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran. (Jim Abott, former major...
796.357 Brown, Tim 2023
The last hero : a life of Henry Aaron
Bryant, Howard
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...
796.357 Aa75yb
Suds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer Of '82
Daniel, J.
Paper Book
In Suds Series, J. Daniel takes readers back forty years, telling a story that is part baseball history, part urban history, and part U.S. cultural history, the narrative weaving together the develop­ment of the Midwest cities of St. Louis and Milwaukee through their engagement with beer and...
796.357 Daniel 2023
The art of fielding : a novel
Harbach, Chad.
Paper Book
A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." 
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael
Paper Book
Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone--but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball...

796.357 Lewis 2003

The natural
Malamud, Bernard
Paper Book
Malamud uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society.
Why we love baseball : a history in 50 moments
Posnanski, Joe
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year  An NPR "Book of the Day" #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is...
796.357 Posnanski 2023

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