Since 1999, Mike Greenberg has been half of the ESPN sportscasting duo Mike and Mike in the Morning, and he frequently anchors ESPN's news program SportsCenter. Marilyn Dahl, editor, Shelf Awareness for Readers Now in paperback, 'the finest piece of baseball writing since Ball Four,' according to Sports Illustrated. Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball by R.A. An attorney and long-suffering Phillies fan is obsessed and entertaining. So You Think You Know Baseball?: A Fan's Guide to the Official Rules by Peter E. A definitive list, though Kaplan left out a favorite: Baseball Haiku. Louis Browns in order to sell more beer.ĥ01 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die by Ron Kaplan (University of Nebraska Press, $24.95 trade paper). The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game by Edward Achorn (Public Affairs, $26.99) Chris Von der Ahe risked his life's savings to found the St. First published more than 100 years ago, by one of the dominant pitchers in the history of the game. Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside by Christy Mathewson (Penguin Classics, $15 paper). The former Mets and Phillies player hung out with Charlie Sheen. Nailed!: The Improbable Rise and Spectacular Fall of Lenny Dykstra by Christopher Frankie (Running Press, $25).

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age by Robert Weintraub (Little, Brown, $27.99). The president of New York University uses baseball in a popular course, teaching that we can touch the spiritual dimension of life through the game. See our review below.īaseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game by John Sexton (Gotham Books, $27.50). As Don DeLillo wrote, it is 'the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.'Ĭolor Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line by Tom Dunkel (Atlantic Monthly Press, $25). Thrilling for baseball fans, and for aficionados of baseball literature-there's a bounty of new books, many historical. March Madness still has a week to go, and yet.

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