My Baseball Library

I have been actively haunting used bookstores and other places for quality hardback versions of classic baseball literature. Here's what I have purchased and read to date Unless noted, these are hardback books with dust jackets.

Those marked * are generally recognized as classic/essential baseball books.

  1. *A False Spring, Jordan, 1975
  2. *Babe, Creamer1974, 1st
  3. *Ball Four, Bouton, 1970, 2nd
  4. *Baseball, Burns, 1994
  5. *The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers, James, 18997, 2nd
  6. *The Boys of Summer, Kahn, 1972, 1st
  7. *The Celebrant, Greenberg, 1983, 1st
  8. *The Diamond Appraised, C.Wright/T.House, 1989, 1st
  9. *Eight Men Out, Asinof, 1963, 1st
  10. *The Glory of Their Times, Ritter, 1966, 3rd
  11. *The Glory of Their Times, Ritter, Sports Classics ed
  12. *The Great American Novel, Roth, 1973, 1st
  13. *If I Never Get Back, Brock, 1990 1st
  14. *The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, Kinsella, 1986, 1st
  15. *The Natural, Malamud, (book club edition)
  16. *October 1964, Halberstam, 1994, 2nd
  17. *Only the Ball was White, Peterson (trade paperback), 1992, 3rd
  18. *Sandlot Peanuts, Schultz, 1977, 1st
  19. *Shoeless Joe, Kinsella, 1982, 1st
  20. *Summer of '49, Halberstam, 1989
  21. *The Universal Baseball Association, Coover (trade paperback), 1971, 4th
  22. *The Way Baseball Works, Gutman & McCarver, 1996, 2nd
  23. *Weaver on Strategy, Weaver (trade paperback), 1984, 2nd
  24. *You Know Me Al, Lardner, 1941, WWII ed, 1st
  25. *You Know Me Al, Lardner, 1994, Westvaco Corp. Christmas ed, 1st
  26. A Clever Base-Ballist - John Montgomery Ward, Di Salvatore, 1999, 1st
  27. A Great and Glorious Game, Giamatti, et al, 1998, 1st
  28. A History of Early Baseball - Playing for Keeps: 1857 - 1876, Goldstein, 2000, Barnes and Noble ed, 1st
  29. A Whole Different Ballgame, Miller, 1991, 1st
  30. The Art of Hitting .300, Lau (trade paperback), 1986, 4th
  31. Babe and Me, Gutman, 2000, 1st
  32. Baseball Rules in Pictures, Brown, Jacobs, McCrory, 1990, 2nd
  33. Baseball's Golden Age, Photographs of Charles M. Conlon, McCabe, 1997
  34. The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!, Gutkind, 1975, 1st
  35. Bunts, Will, 1998, 2nd
  36. Charlie Browns's All-Stars, Schultz, 1966, 1st
  37. Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting , Kerrane (trade paperback), 1999, 1st
  38. Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball, Costas, 2000, 1st
  39. The Heart of the Game, Hemphill, 1996, 1st
  40. Honus and Me, Gutman, 1997, 9th
  41. Insights From the Outfield, Shultz, 1997
  42. Jackie and Me, Gutman, 1999, 1st
  43. The Joy of Keeping Score, Dickson, 1996, 3rd
  44. Knotty Problems of Baseball, Evans, 1957
  45. Men at Work, Will, 1990, 1st
  46. Mudville Diaries, Schacht (trade paperback), 1996, 1st
  47. Pure Baseball, Hernandez & Bryan, 1994, 1st
  48. The Rules and Lore of Baseball, Marazzi (trade paperback), 1980
  49. The Rules of Baseball and How They Came to Be, Nemec (trade paperback), 1994, 4th
  50. The Science of Hitting, Williams (trade paperback), 1986, 3rd
  51. The Scrapbook History of Baseball, Deutsch, et. al., 1975, 1st
  52. Stolen Season, Lamb, 1991, 2nd
  53. That Sweet Diamond, Janeczko and Katchen, 1998, 1st
  54. The Veracruz Blues, Winegardner, 1996, 1st
  55. When the Boys Came Back, Turner, 1996, 1st

 

Reading now:

Baseball - The National Pastime in Art and Literature, Colbert, 2001, 1st

Purchased and waiting to read (I'm trying to hurry...):

  1. *The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, 1985, 2nd
  2. *The Fireside Book of Baseball, Einstein, 1956, 10th
  3. *The Second Fireside Book of Baseball, Einstein, 1958, 7th
  4. *The Third Fireside Book of Baseball, Einstein, 1968, 2nd
  5. *The Imperfect Diamond, Lowenfish (trade paperback), 1991
  6. *The New Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball, Koppett, (trade paperback),1991, expanded ed in pb, 1st
  7. *Nine Innings, Okrent, 1985, 1st
  8. *The Politics of Glory, James, 1994, 1st
  9. *Veeck as in Wreck, Veeck, 1962
  10. Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time, Neyer, Epstein, 2000, 1st
  11. Baseball Extra, Caren, 2000, 1st
  12. Baseball Hometown Teams - The Story of the Minor Leagues, Chadwick, 1994, 1st
  13. Baseball Letters: A Fan's Correspondence With His Heroes, Swirsky, 1996, 3rd
  14. Cooperstown - Where Baseball Legends Live Forever - The Sporting News, 1999, 3rd
  15. Covering Home, My Life With Nolan Ryan, Ruth Ryan, 1995, 1st
  16. Early Innings : A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908, Sullivan (trade paperback), 1997, 1st
  17. Every Pitcher Tells a Story, Swirsky, 1999, 1st
  18. The Game That Was, Cahan (trade paperback), 1996, 1st
  19. Good Enough to Dream, Kahn, 1985, 1st
  20. Hornsby Hit One Over My Head, Cataneo (trade paperback), 1997, 1st
  21. Insider's Baseball, SABR, L. Robert Davids, ed., 1983, 2nd
  22. It Ain't Cheatin' If You Don't Get Caught, Gutman (trade paperback) 1990, 1st
  23. I Was Right On Time, O'Neil, 1996, 1st
  24. Joy in Mudville - A Little League Memoir, Mitchell, 2000, 1st
  25. The Man in the Dugout, Honig, 1977, 1st
  26. Memories of Summer, Kahn, 1997, 1st
  27. The Men in Blue, Gerlach (trade paperback), 1994, 1st
  28. Nice Guys Finish Last, Durocher, 1975, 1st
  29. Percentage Baseball, Cook, (no dust jacket), 1966, 2nd
  30. Red Smith on Baseball, Smith, Berkow, 2000
  31. Say Hey, Mays and Sahadi, 1988, 1st
  32. Sometimes You See It Coming, Baker, 1993, 1st
  33. Spring Training, Zinsser, 1989, 1st
  34. Summer of '98, Lupica, 1999, 7th printing
  35. Three and Two, Gorman & Holtzman, 1975, 1st
  36. The Ultimate Baseball Book, Okrent & Lewine, 1979, 2nd
  37. Voices from Cooperstown, Conner, 1998, 1st
  38. The World Series, Sports Illustrated, 1997
  39. World Series Classics, Gutman, 1994, 1st

Reference Books

  1. *The Ballplayers, Shatzkin & Charlton, 1990, 1st
  2. *The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Dickson, 1989, 1st
  3. *Total Baseball, 5th ed., 1997, 1st
  4. *Total Baseball, 6th ed., 1999, 1st