chezboots Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Not historical, but a great book on the greatest season ever..... The Bad Guys Won! A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best, By Jeff Pearlman Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Unit Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 My 3 favorite books: Derek Jeter: A biography Joe Torre: Chasing the Dream (my dad met him at the book signing) Game of Shadows The Zen of Zim is pretty good too. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kblavie Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Moneyball My Prison Without Bars Sporting News' 100 Greatest Baseball Players Total Baseball (any edition) Luckiest Man: Life and Death of Lou Gehrig Slick Those are just the ones I've read. Actually anyone who's read Total Baseball earns my respect I just skimmed through it. MarkB that is actually a nice list, a few I'd like to read. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Moneyball - the behind the scenes mechanisms of the clubhouse and front office (i.e. Billy Beane getting calls from Peter Gammons about a trade or something) were very intriguing. Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty - great book that provided more behind the scenes insight. The book started off with a great story of how Yankee players would be entertained by Jerry Springer , and Mariano Rivera's thoughts on what was going on. Good read. Supposedly there is a Babe Ruth biography out there that is worth reading...and "The Bad Guys Won" is a pretty good book too. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kblavie Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 I think the Whitey Ford book was named "Slick" Yes it is. I loved it. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidewinder Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Here is a really good book for Angel fans that I just finished. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158261163...ie=UTF8&s=books Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkslide820 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Total Baseball 8th Edition (pre-2004 stats and stories) So much depth, introduction to sabremetrics, actual pictures of players you've probably only seen numbers and stats of, year by year records, all-time leaders, team histories. I love it. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyMcM93 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Total Baseball 8th Edition (pre-2004 stats and stories) So much depth, introduction to sabremetrics, actual pictures of players you've probably only seen numbers and stats of, year by year records, all-time leaders, team histories. I love it. That is a really good book. You never get tired of reading it again and again. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-295990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukslamjam Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 Thanks for all your input guys, I have enough to keep me going for a while! ;) Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-300331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 There was no delete function button so I could not delete this message, but I edited it to say this. Please forgive the double post, especially such a dumb one. I hit the stop button, but it still posted this by accident. :( Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-300386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronmexico Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 I just got another great book. It's about the tales that minor leaguers tell, and the great thing is that its about the star's experiences down there. One night when Piazza was in A ball, and didn't have a car because it was a road trip, and he's got his $10 meal money per day, and he's starved after a game. It's so late that every place in this little run down town is closed. The one place open is a taco bell, but only the drive through. He walks up and tells this 15 year old kid at the drive through his situation. The kid says no I can't do anything. After about 10 minutes of hounding people to let them in their car he gave up and went to a new plan. He stood in the motion sensor for the drive thru and placed his order. He starts making noises, vroom vroom, while his teamates place the order. His teamate jumps on his back and rides him like a motorcycle to the window, and when the kid sees this he says "Wow you must be really hungry. Just take the food and go." So Piazza and his teamates got a free meal, and that is just one kind of tale in this collection of about 125. The book is called Minor Moments, Major Memories. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-300387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
menace066 Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 100 years of baseball my favorite book ever, covers every year from basically the beginning of baseball up till 2001. for every year it has a small biography for a player who had a great season within that year. highly recommend buying this. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-300400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberger Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. It's a fantastic book about the early years of professional baseball, told by the players themselves. There are many great stories in it, which makes it a very compelling read. Two thumbs up! Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-498317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xiberger Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Another year, another great baseball book I got for Christmas! :-) Baseball - Ballet in the Dirt features tons of great pictures by photographer Neil Leifer. It covers the 60s and 70s, and also includes a couple of interesting stories about the players of that time. You can find more pictures here. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-546658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tebjr Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 I bought John Shuerholz's "Built to Win". Haven't read all of it yet, but so far it's been a good read. Picked it up for a $1.00. Link to comment https://www.mvpmods.com/forums/topic/23310-a-good-baseball-book/page/2/#findComment-546661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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