 | Ball Four by Jim Bouton
Buy used from: £1.23 In its day, a shocking expose. A diary of a marginal player, who was also an iconoclast struggling with a last place team.
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 | Babe: the Legend Comes to Life (Fireside sports classic) by Robert Creamer
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £2.35 The definitive biography of the legend. Not over lurid, but not a whitewash job. Factual, and well researched.
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 | Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball by E.T. Smith
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Ed Smith, Kent cricketer, becomes a baseball fan and discusses the two games
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 | Eight Men out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
Buy used from: £2.37 A gripping story, well told, of one of the darkest moments: The White Sox throw the World Series
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 | The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £14.07 More statistical than the others, but full of humour and an overview of the game's rich history.
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