Get a jump start on your reading list with some choice selections from the best baseball books around. And be sure to check back often, since we'll continue to add great titles in the months to come.

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NEW BOOKS

	» New York Yankees: The First 25 Years
	.	2002 / Vincent Luisi presents twenty fascinating images of the Yankees' early days -- from Baltimore to the Babe
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History
	.	2001 / Ten interviews from Harvey and Frederic J. Frommer's oral history of "the growing-up years" of some of baseball's greatest heroes
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Jocks and Socks: Inside Stories From A Major-League Locker Room
	.	2001 / Jim Ksicinski, the visitors' clubhouse manager at Milwaukee's County Stadium for over 30 years, remembers the managers he served
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Banks to Sandberg to Grace
	.	2001 / Seven Cubs legends from the 1950s remember North Side baseball at its best ... at least, at its most entertaining
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Bob Feller's Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom
	.	2001 / Hall-of-Fame hurler Bob Feller shares his thoughts on the game he once dominated
	.	Buy / Read »

	» The New York Mets Encyclopedia
	.	2001 / From Peter C. Bjarkman's definitive history of the Amazins, a survey of the most unforgettable events in franchise history
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Babe Ruth: Major-League Dad
	.	2001 / Julia Ruth Stevens -- the daughter of Babe Ruth -- shares 18 photos from her personal collection
	.	Buy / Read »

	» The Perfect Yankee
	.	2001 / Don Larsen remembers the last step to immortality -- the ninth inning of his World Series perfect game
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Black Baseball In Kansas City
	.	2000 / Another fantastic series of classic images from Negro League experts Larry Lester and Sammy J. Miller
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life
	.	2001 / From Hank Greenberg's autobiography -- edited by noted baseball scribe Ira Berkow -- a look back at 1935, Hank's best season
	.	Buy / Read »

BASEBALL HISTORY

	» Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats
	.	2001 / John Kuenster surveys the most depressing, sudden twists of fate in baseball history. In this excerpt, one errant pitch costs the Pirates the 1972 pennant
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Land of the Giants: New York's Polo Grounds
	.	2001 / The last days of the Polo Grounds, from Stew Thornley's definitive history of the stadium. Also includes sixteen photos of the Polo Grounds through the years
	.	Buy / Read »

» The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2001

by Neft, Cohen et al (2001) Buy / Read »

» The 100 Greatest Baseball Games

by Joe Dittmar (2000) Buy / Read »

» Baseball Records Registry

by Joe Dittmar (1997) Buy / Read »

» The Green Mountain Boys of Summer

edited by Tom Simon (2000) Buy / Carlton Fisk »

» All Roads Lead to October

by Maury Allen (2000) Buy / Chapter 10 »

» Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures

by Dan Shaughnessy and Stan Grossfeld (2000) Buy / The Wall »

» Once Around the Bases

by Richard Tellis (1998) Buy / Eddie Gaedel / Bert Shepard / Nick Testa »

» Cobb Would Have Caught It: Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit

by Richard Bak (1991) Buy / Wells / Uhle / Gehringer »

» Home of the Game: The Story of Camden Yards

by Thom Loverro (2000) Buy / Chapter 7 »

» Where They Ain't: ...The Original Baltimore Orioles

by Burt Solomon (1999) Buy / Chapter 4 »

» The Curse of Rocky Colavito

by Terry Pluto (1995) Buy / Introduction »

» Baseball in World War II Europe

by Gary Bedingfield (1999) Buy / Introduction »

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BIOGRAPHIES

	» The Duke of Havana
	.	2001 / From Steve Fainaru and Ray Sanchez, the inside story of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez -- and a look at the original "El Duque," his father
	.	Buy / Read »

» DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life

by Dick Johnson and Glenn Stout (1995) Buy / Chapter 4 »

» The Man In The Dugout

by Leonard Koppett (2000) Buy / Casey Stengel / Leo Durocher / Sparky Anderson »

» The Golden Boy: A Biography of Jackie Jensen

by George I. Martin (2000) Buy / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 »

» Koufax

by Edward Gruver (2000) Buy / Read: Chapter 7 »

» Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson

by Clifton B. Parker (2000) Buy / Read: Chapter 6 »

» Babe: The Legend Comes to Life

by Robert Creamer (1974) Buy / Chapter 1 / Chapter 31 »

» Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues

by William Brashler (1978) Buy / Chapter 3 »

» Me And Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later

by Sandy Tolan (2000) Buy / Prologue »

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AUTOBIOGRAPHIES / MEMOIRS

	» Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms
	.	2001 / Elden Auker pitched to the Babe and putted with Presidents. In our two excerpts, he shares memories you have to read to believe
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Veeck as in Wreck
	.	2001 / Legendary huckmeister Bill Veeck remembers his greatest stunt ever -- signing midget Eddie Gaedel as a pinch-hitter
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Baseball Days
	.	2000 / Memories of America's pastime from Dick Vitale, George Vecsey, Michael Dukakis, Ernie Harwell, Rick Dempsey, and Clive Cussler; compiled by Garret Mathews
	.	Vitale / Vecsey / Dukakis / Harwell / Dempsey / Cussler »

» My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life

by Ted Williams (1988) Buy / Read »

» Baby Bull: From Hardball to Hard Time and Back

by Orlando Cepeda (1998) Buy / Chapter 8 »

» Sosa: An Autobiography

by Sammy Sosa (2000) Buy / Read en Español or in English »

» Things Happen For A Reason: ...An Itinerant Life in Baseball

by Terry Leach (2000) Buy / Part 6 »

» I Was Right On Time

by Buck O'Neil (1997) Buy / Chapter 1 »

» You're Missin' A Great Game

by Whitey Herzog (1999) Buy / Introduction »

» The Ripken Way: A Manual For Baseball And Life

by Cal Ripken, Sr. (1999) Buy / Chapter 1 »

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ESSAYS / COLLECTIONS

	» Tales from the Dodger Dugout
	.	2000 / Dodger great Carl Erskine remembers the joys of summer, The Boys of Summer, and a buttermilk cake that helped Brooklyn win it all in '55
	.	Buy / Read »

» Red Smith on Baseball

by Red Smith (2000) Buy / Read »

» Confessions Of A Baseball Purist

by Jon Miller and Mark Hyman (1998) Buy / Chapter 3 »

» Bunts: ...Reflections on Baseball

by George Will (1998) Buy / Introduction »

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PHOTO COLLECTIONS

	» The American League: The Early Years
	.	2000 / David Lee Poremba presents twenty classic images of the AL's early years, including what may be the first sports action shot ever
	.	Buy / Read »

	» The House of David Baseball Team
	.	2000 / From Joel Hawkins and Terry Bertolino's impressive collection of House of David images, an overview of the bearded baseball sensations that took America by storm
	.	Buy / Read »

	» Once Upon a Diamond: A 2001 Calendar
	.	2000 / From a new calendar featuring the baseball collections of the New York Public Library, images of forty-eight tobacco cards from 1909
	.	Buy / Browse Cards »

» Black Baseball in Chicago

by Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller, and Dick Clark (2000) Buy / Browse Photos »

» Black Baseball in Detroit

by Larry Lester, Sammy J. Miller, and Dick Clark (2000) Buy / Browse Photos »

» The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration

by William M. Anderson (1999) Buy / Browse photos »

» Yankees Baseball: The Golden Age

by Richard Bak (1999) Buy / Browse photos »

» New York Giants: A Baseball Album

by Richard Bak (1999) Browse photos »

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RESEARCH / ANALYSIS

	» Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time
	.	2000 / From Rob Neyer and Eddie Epstein's examination of the top teams in baseball history, a look at some of the forgetten greats -- and some of the worst
	.	Buy / Read »

» Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?

by Bill James (1995) Buy / Chapter 8 »

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HOW-TOs / INSTRUCTION / EXPLANATION

	» The Baseball Autograph Collector's Handbook
	.	1999 / Jack Smalling's primer on how to collect the autographs of baseball's greatest stars
	.	Buy / Read: Chapter 1 »

» Spitters, Beanballs and the Incredible Shrinking Strike Zone

by Waggoner et al. (2000) Buy / Chapter 1 / Rules Chronology »

» How To Snag Major League Baseballs

by Zachary Hample (1999) Buy / Chapter 1 »

» Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible

by Nolan Ryan (1991) Buy / Chapter 2 »

» The Science Of Hitting

by Ted Williams and John Underwood (1986) Buy / Chapter 1 »

» The Way Baseball Works

by Tim McCarver and Dan Gutman (1996) Buy / Chapter 2 »

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