[net.sport.baseball] reading material

sgm@g.cs.cmu.edu (Sherri Menees) (12/15/85)

Some other good baseball reading material:

"How Life Imitates the World Series" and "Why Time Begins on Opening Day",
by Thomas Boswell (articles)

"The Hidden Game of Baseball", by Pete Palmer and John Thorn (analysis)

"The Seventh Game", by Roger Kahn (fiction)

"Nine Innings", by Daniel Okrent (baseball in the context of one game)

"The Summer Game" and "Across Five Seasons", by Roger Angell (articles)

"The Southpaw", "Bang the Drum Slowly", and "A Ticket for a Seamstitch", by
Mark Harris (fiction)

Sherri Menees
sgm@g.cs.cmu.edu

zurawski@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (12/17/85)

But the best book ever written (baseball or otherwise) is 
"Ball Four" by Jim Bouton.