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Some of our favorite baseball books:

Reference

Shatzkin. The BallPlayers: The One & Only Book that Tells Stories Beyond the Stats. Ref GV 8654.A1 B323 1990
Gillette & Palmer. The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia. Ref GV862.3.A14 2006

Biographies

Creamer. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. GV865.R8 C73

Dravecky, Dave. When You can’t Come Back: A Story of Courage & Grace. BV865.D66 A4 1992

Eig. The Luckiest Man: The life and Death of Lou Gehrig. GV865.G4 E54 2006

Hershiser, Orel. Out of the Blue. GV865.H46 A3 1989

Baseball in Literature

Bing. Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888. PS3014.T3 C3 2000

Hurley. Hemingway’s Debt to Baseball in The Old Man and the Sea. PS3515.E37 O5224 1992

Kinsella. The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt. PR9199.3.K443 F87 1988

Michelson. Across the Alley. PZ7.M681914 Acr 2006

Baseball History and Issues

Chadwick. When the Game Was Black and White: The Illustrated History of Baseball’s Negro Leagues. GV875.A1 C47 1992

Halberstam. October 1964.GV878.4.H35 1995
Tygiel. Baseball’s Great Experiment. GV865.R6 T93 1983

Zimbalist. Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look inside the Big Business of our National Pastime. GV880.Z56 1992

Coaching

Curran. Coaching Baseball Successfully. GV875.5.L67 2007
Ripken. Coaching Youth Baseball the Ripken Way. GV880.65.R56 2007