 | The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums by Joshua Pahigian
Buy new: £12.61 / Used from: £4.68 The best book I bought in 2004: a witty and informative journey around all major league ballparks.
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 | Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia (Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball) by John Thorn
Weighs 10lb., has almost 3,000 pages, and contains just about every baseball fact possible.
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 | The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £22.82 Idiosyncratic but intriguing wander through baseball's history.
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 | Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game (Bison Book) by Roger Kahn
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £5.39 Graceful memoirs from a leading writer majoring on the 1950's - particularly good on the Brooklyn Dodgers
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 | Veeck as in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by B Veeck
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £2.74 Anecdote after anecdote from the man who sent a midget to bat, and loved fireworks at ballparks!
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 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by M Lewis
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £1.78 Well-written expose of how the Oakland A's rewrote the scouting manuals - and prospered.
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 | Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £15.94 The best book I have bought in 2005. Fascinating account of the - often surprising - origins of the game.
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 | Cracking the Show by Thomas Boswell
Buy new: £11.60 / Used from: £0.63 Stylish essays from the best contemporary American newspaper columnist.
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 | Roads to Redemption: A Guide to Major League Baseball by Craig W. Thomas
Buy new: £10.42 / Used from: £2.99 A great place to start your interest in baseball, or learn more: easily the best UK-written book on the sport.
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 | Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Buy used from: £1.20 Earthy, honest, amusing and fascinating account of playing the game in the late 60's.
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 | The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
Buy new: £9.12 / Used from: £1.58 Absolutely fascinating: the first stars talk of the earliest days of baseball. Highly recommended.
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 | The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend) by Tom Stanton
Buy used from: £4.68 The final year of a classic ballpark brings a family together. A good read.
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 | Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn
Buy used from: £1.03 Famous journalist buys Minor League club - an intriguing tale.
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 | Chasing Steinbrenner: Pursuing the Pennant in Boston and Toronto by Rob Bradford
Buy used from: £5.38 Interesting insight into the minds and tactics of two of the new breed of GM's
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