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168 Baseball Books Worth Reading

Posted May 9th 2008 8:55AM by Matt Watson
Filed under: MLB Fans

Alex Belth of Bronx Banter came up with a pretty cool idea:

I thought it'd be fun to ask a group of seamheads--historians, biographers, columnists, beat writers, screenwriters, novelists--for a list of their ten essential baseball books. Not the ten best books or even the ten most essential books just ten essential ones.

All in all he heard from 55 different people who suggested 168 different books. Jim Bouton's Ball Four appeared on the most ballots, followed by Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times and Bill James' The Bill James Historical Abstract.

Looking at the rest of the list, there are a lot of books that I've been meaning to read as well as some titles that are new to me. If you're a baseball fan who likes to read, you'll want to take a look -- there's more than enough there to fill up your summer reading list. (via Aaron Gleeman)

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