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March 2006

Booklists · Baseball—America’s Love Affair

Our all-star lineup of baseball material covers the national pastime from its history, to its instruction, to biographies of players and mangers, in fiction, nonfiction, and film.

The Game and Its History

cover of Timeline History of Baseball by Don Jensen

The Timeline History of Baseball

Don Jensen

Baseball: A History of America’s Game

Benjamin G. Rader

Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game

David Block

Breaking Into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime

Jean Ardell

First World Series and the Baseball Fanatics of 1903

Roger Abrams

Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by Men Who Played It

Lawrence Ritter

Greats of the Game: The Players, Games, Teams, and Managers That Made Baseball History

Ray Robinson

Image of Their Greatness: An Illustrated History of Baseball from 1900 to the Present

Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig

Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military During World War II

Steven Bullock

Rickey and Robinson: Men Who Broke Baseball’s Color Barrier

Harvey Frommer

The Home Team

cover of The Long Ball: The Summer of ’75 by Tom Adelman

The Long Ball: The Summer of ’75

Tom Adelman

Opening Day: Celebrating Cincinnati’s Baseball Holiday

John Erardi

Cincinnati and the Big Red Machine

Robert Walker

Big Red Dynasty: How Bob Howsam and Sparky Anderson Built the Big Red Machine

Greg Rhodes and John Erardi

Catch You Later

Johnny Bench and William Brashler

The Cincinnati Game

Loni Wheeler and John Baskin

Cincinnati Reds: An Illustrated History

Donald Honig

Cincinnati Reds, 1950-1985

Jack Klumpe

Cincinnati Reds Scrapbook

Rob Rathgeber

Cincinnati Seasons: My 34 Years With the Reds

Earl Lawsons

First Boys of Summer: The 1869-1870 Cincinnati Red Stockings: Baseball’s First Professional Team

Greg Rhodes and John Erardi

Joe Morgan: A Life in Baseball

Joe Morgan and David Faulkner

Pete Rose: Basesball’s Charlie Hustle

Mike Towle

Reds in Black & White: 100 Years of Cincinnati Reds Images

Gregory Rhodes

They Call Me Sparky

Sparky Anderson

The Away Teams

cover of Emperors and Idiots by Mike Vaccaro

Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred-Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and the Red Sox

Mike Vaccaro

The Curse of Rocky Colavito: A Loving Look at the Thirty-Year Slump

Terry Pluto

Cubs: Where Have You Gone?

Fred Mitchell

The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball

Glenn Stout

Few and Chosen: Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras

Tim McCarver

Saying It’s So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal

Daniel A. Nathan

The Big Leagues

cover of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

Heart of the Game: An Illustrated Celebration of the American League, 1946

Andy Jurinko

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

H.G. Bissinger

Major League Baseball in the 70’s: A Modern Game Emerges

Joseph Preston

May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy

Andrew S. Zimbalist

Total Ballclubs: The Ultimate Book of Baseball Teams

Donald Dewey

True Stars of the Major Leagues

Bruce Reaves Coleman

The Western League: A Baseball History, 1885 Through 1999

W.C. Madden

The Other Leagues

cover of Boys of Spring: Timeless Portraits from the Grapefruit League 1947-2005 by Ozzie Sweet

Boys of Spring: Timeless Portraits from the Grapefruit League 1947-2005

Ozzie Sweet

Baseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game

Peter C. Bjarkman

Coming Back to Baseball: The Cincinnati Astros and the Joys of Over-30 Play

Mike Shannon

Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada

William Humber

Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball

Milton H. Jamail

“I Will Never Forget”: Interviews With 39 Former Negro League Players

Brent Kelley

Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave From Japan and The Transformation of Our National Pastime

Robert Whiting

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution

Neil Lanctot

How to Play the Game

cover of The Art of Hitting by Tony Gwynn

Art of Hitting

Tony Gwynn

Baseball Rules in Pictures

A.G. Jacobs

Baseball’s Hitting Secrets: How to Put a Round Baseball Bat on a Round Ball

Ted Burda

Branch Rickey’s Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy from Baseball’s Last Wise Man

Branch Rickey

Little League’s Official How To Play Baseball Book

Peter Kreutzer

Randy Johnson’s Power Pitching: The Big Unit’s Secrets to Domination, Intimidation, and Winning

Randy Johnson

Starting Pitcher: Baseball behind the Seams

Rob Trucks

Treasury of Baseball Drills

Danny Litwhiler

You’re Out and You’re Ugly, Too: Confessions of an Umpire With Attitude

Durwood Merrill

Players and Fans

cover of I’m Just Getting Started by Jack McKeon

I’m Just Getting Started: Baseball’s Best Storyteller on Old School Baseball, Defying the Odds, and Good Cigars

Jack McKeon

Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend

Jim Reisler

Baseball Has Done It

Jackie Robinson

Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation

John Sickels

Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

Jonathan Eig

Ken Griffey Jr.: In the Words of Reggie Jackson, Dave Duncan, Rickey Henderson, Tony La Russa, Ken Griffey Sr., Tim Carver and Others

Missed It By That Much: Baseball Players Who Challenged the Records Books

Victor Debs

Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Thomas Oliphant

Rawlings Presents Big Stix: The Greatest Hitters in the History of the Major Leagues

Rob Rains

Last Time Out: Big-league Farewells of Baseball’s Greats

John Nogowski

Field of Dreams

cover of The Ball Park Book by Ron Smith

The Ball Park Book

Ron Smith

Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark

Michael Gersham

The Fenway Project: June 28, 2002: A Project for the Society of American Baseball Research and SABR Boston

Bill Nowlin

Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All 271 Major League Ballparks Past and Present

Philip Lowry

Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball’s Legendary Fields

Lawrence Ritter

Opening Day at Great American Ballpark

Dan Stupp

Retro Ball Parks: Instant History, Baseball, and the New American City

Daniel Rosenweig

Riverfront Stadium: Home of the Big Red Machine

Mike Shannon

Spring Training Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Ballparks of the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues

Josh Pahigian

Storied Stadiums: Baseball’s History Through Its Ballparks

Curt Smith

Look It Up

cover of Baseball Desk Reference

Baseball Desk Reference

Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues

James Riley

Complete Baseball Record Book

Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball

Thom Loverro

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches

Bill James and Bob Neyer

RedLeg Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Cincinnati Reds since 1866

Sporting News Baseball Register

Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball

Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia

From the Broadcast Booth

cover of Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball by Bob Costas

Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball

Bob Costas

The Broadcasters

Red Barber

Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

Tom Keegan

Holy Cow

Harry Caray

Joe: Rounding Third and Heading for Home

Greg Hoard

Literary Game

cover of All the Stars Came Out That Night by Kevin King

All the Stars Came Out That Night

Kevin King

The Cincinnati Red Stalkings

Troy Soos

Blue Ruin: A Novel of the 1919 World Series

Brendan Boyd

The Fan

Peter Abrahams

Heavenly World Series

Frank O’Rourke

If I Never Get Back

Darryl Brock

Screwballs

John Cronley

Strike Zone

Jim Bouton

Underworld

Don DeLillo

The Video Game

cover of The Bad News Bears

Bad News Bears

Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns (9 volumes)

Eight Men Out

Field of Dreams

Hitting with Ken Griffey, Jr.

A League of Their Own

The Natural

Wire to Wire: The Story of the 1990 World Champion Cincinnati Reds

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