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I love this book. I read it in a single sitting, kicking back on my porch on a warm, early summer day with a ballgame on in the background. It was perfect, and the book is outstanding.

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I ❤️ this book (and team) too!

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My Favorite Baseball Books

1. A False Spring - Pat Jordan

2. Ball Four - Jim Bouton

3. The Bill James Historical Abstract

4. Moneyball - Michael Lewis

5. Nine Innings - Daniel Okrent

6. The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn

7. The Summer Game (or Late Innings or Five Seasons)- Roger Angell

8. Dollar Sign on the Muscle - The World of Baseball Scouting - Kevin Kerrane

9. The Baseball 100 -- Joe Posnanski

10. Veeck as in Wreck -- Bill Veeck

11. A Whole Different Gane -- Marvn Miller

12. Why Time Begins on Opening Day -- Thomas Boswell

13 The Teammates or Summer of '49 - David Halberstam

14. Astroball - The New Way to Win - Ben Reiter

15. The Only Rule is it Has to Work -- Ben Lingbergh and Sam Miller

Honorable Mentions:

* Favorite Baseball Novel: Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella (basis of Field of Dreams)

** Shout out to the Matt Christopher kids books (Catcher with the Glass Arm etc.)

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