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Billy’s best baseball books
As the resident librarian of Alibris for Libraries, it is my pleasure to present you with my top five (in no particular order) “all-time fave” baseball books.
- The Southpaw, by Mark Harris: A funny, first-person tale of a successful, young left-hander in a right-handed world.
- The Long Ball, by Jim Daniels: Modern poems about love, race, sex, and the Detroit Tigers.
- Leonardo Knows Baseball, monotypes by Charles Hobson: This book’s unusual, accordion binding neatly juxtaposes philosophy and the human form.
- Battle Creek, by Scott Lasser: Major issues—sickness, parenting, parents—in the minor leagues.
- Out of Left Field, by Bob Adelman and Susan Hall: Incredibly candid retelling of the Pittsburgh Pirates’s first brutal season without Roberto Clemente.
I love baseball literature. My favorites are a little more standard - Shoeless Joe and The Natural. I authored a baseball book being released September 15, 2006, PLAYING WITH THE ENEMY: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War and a Field of Broken Dreams. www.playingwiththeenemy.com Jim Morris wrote the foreword and it will soon be a major motion picture. Hope you will check it out!
by Gary W. Moore, 14 Jul 2006 at 1:45 pm