Tag «Baseball»

So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets―the Best Worst Team in Sports

So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin’ True Story of the New York Mets―the Best Worst Team in Sports is a baseball history like no other, covering the team that wins when they should lose and loses when they should win. There is no team quite like the Mets in all of baseball. (more…)

Wait Till Next Year – A Memoir

Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wait Till Next Year is the story of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Brooklyn immigrant family and the role that baseball played in their lives in the 1940s and 50s, up until the Dodgers left Brooklyn. (more…)

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between by Eric Nusbaum is a story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city. (more…)

The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell

The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell by Lonnie Wheeler is the ﬁrst full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer. (more…)

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller is the story of two statistics-minded outsiders taking over a professional baseball team and the results of that season. (more…)

The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves

The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law is a ground-breaking book by one of baseball’s smartest writers. (more…)

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig is a comprehensive look at the 1947 season when Jackie Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball. It was a very important moment in baseball history and ultimately changed baseball forever. (more…)

The MVP Machine

The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik is a book about what teams will do to gain an edge in the post-Moneyball era. The time of noticing things that other teams don’t or better evaluating past performance is over. Developing players and making the most out of untapped potential is the new way teams get ahead in Major League Baseball. (more…)

5 Baseball Books to Read Before the MLB Season

The MLB season starts on July 26th with a shortened sixty game season and it is sure to make for a weird baseball season, but sixty games is better than no games. As we prepare for the start of the season, these are some of the best baseball books that you should check out to get in the baseball spirit before the start of the 2020 MLB season. (more…)

Roger Angell

Roger Angell is considered one of the greatest baseball writers of all-time. He is an essayist who has contributed to The New Yorker throughout his career and was their chief fiction editor for a long time. Roger Angell was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014. (more…)