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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Bang the Drum Slowly
Mark Harris
Paper Book
Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball “with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family.” More than a novel about baseball, Bang the...
The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
Paper Book
A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this award-nominated tale about love, life, and baseball. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom....
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Jules Tygiel
Paper Book
In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young...
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
Howard Bryant
Paper Book
This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron-one of baseball's immortal figures-is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. "Beautifully written and culturally important." -The Washington Post

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