Bronx Banter: Ten Essential Baseball Books

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Dodger Thoughts: The Chad Billingsley High-K, High-ERA Conundrum
Published 4/30/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... surprisingly able with the bat as well, as he has thus far outperformed his PECOTA projection with a .270/.361/.365 line in 72 PA, better numbers than Garciaparra has put up in his last 500 PA, and also strong enough to carry DeWitt's defensive play. As sad as it is to say, the once-great Garciaparra's recent injury might actually help the Dodgers more than it hurts them. * * * Vin Scully and Ralph Branca: friends forever, writes Kit Stier at MLB.com . * * * Update: Go to Bronx Banter for Alex Belth's post, "Ten Essential Baseball Books."

Bronx Banter: Belth: Ten Essential Baseball Books
Published 4/30/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Bronx Banter: Belth: Ten Essential Baseball Books Damn... Bob Bonner’s “Me and Him” is nowhere to be found. Last month I received an e-mail from Chris Illuminati, the content editor of Phillyburbs.com. He told me he was asking different people for one baseball book that they’d consider essential. I picked “No Cheering From the Press Box,” Jerome Holtzman’s wonderful collection of interviews with old time sports writers, but sent Chris a list of ten essential books just for the fun of it. Shortly after the story ran I thought it’d be fun to ask a group of ...

THT Live:Ten Essential Baseball Books
Published 4/30/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Ten Essential Baseball Books by Dave Studeman April 30, 2008 Alex Belth asked 55 different baseball nuts, including yours truly, for their list of ten essential baseball books . I didn't put the number one choice on my list at all. In fact, I think it's pretty non-essential these days, though it was great for its time. Just in case you're interested, here are my comments to Alex... Okay, Alex. Here's my take on ten essential baseball books. - Pure Baseball, by Keith Hernandez. You watch a game with Hernandez, at bat by at bat, and he comments throughout the book on ...

The Griddle: Not that anyone asked me, but ...
Published 5/1/2008 at Baseball Toaster
Since this is a day for Baseball Toaster to discuss top ten baseball books , I thought I'd drop in my 10 favorite baseball books. I don't know if they qualify as "best" or "essential" or "influential" or perhaps any or all. Most of the titles have been mentioned before in both of the two links above and they aren't presented in any order except the order I remembered them (this list changes as I see titles on my shelf): The Southpaw and Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris. Josh Wilker has written about Harris's work much more eloquently than I can over ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, May 1
Published 5/1/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM MY LIBRARY: I've read -- and own -- most of the titles in the Bronx Banter's list of essential baseball books. As a personal aside, I think You Know Me Al, which I've just been rereading, should be listed a little higher . . . although I don't know if it's as much "essential" as it is "enjoyable." ...

Bronx Banter: Essential Baseball Books: The Ballots
Published 5/1/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... Here's the voting , in alphabetical order: A-R (S-Z to follow) Pete Abraham Lords of the Realm (Helyar): If you're truly a baseball fan, you need to understand how it works from the ownership level. Ball Four (Bouton): No, they're not angels. Joe DiMaggio (Creamer): The definitive biography on one of baseball's most talented and complicated stars Sandy Koufax (Levy): ibid. The Luckiest Man (Eig): Great bio on Gehrig and a study of baseball at that time. The Big Bam (Montville): Of all the Ruth books, this best brings everything together. Moneyball (Lewis). It's vastly ...

Recommended baseball reading
Published 5/1/2008 by Ben K. at River Ave. Blues
... . That list has evolved and morphed in the intervening four years, and at some point, I’ll toss up a post about my personal favorite baseball books. In the meantime, Alex Belth is engaged in some heavy lifting on baseball books over the at the Banter. Yesterday, he introduced his baseball book project, and today, he’s run through the ballots he collected of the best baseball books ( ...

Ten Best Baseball Books
Published 5/1/2008 by Jeff Sackmann at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... Alex Belth, of Bronx Banter, polled lots of bloggers and baseball writers to come up with a list of the best baseball books ever .  I wasn't asked, but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion.  Here's my top ten. ...

Hawiian Shirt Friday: 05/02/08
Published 5/2/2008 by TD at Rain Delay
... Alex Belth of Bronx Banter, talks about the Ten Essential Baseball Books. Looking over the list, it looks like I’ve got some reading to do! ...

Weekly Blog Kiosk 5/4/2008
Published 5/4/2008 by ernest at Blue Heaven
... year old Julio Franco decides to finally hang them up. Calm down it's just a game besides parents need to understand that video games are not only for kids. Parents should stop being lazy and do their jobs. Don't buy it for your kids. Check out these photoshopped Rock n' Roll Baseball cards. Below is Mick Jagger superimposed on Ty Cobb's T206 red background portrait card. Hat Tip: Baseball Card Blog: Bronx Banter has an impressive list of "must-read" Baseball books. Former Tigers pitcher and Cy ...

Bronx Banter: Deeper into Baseball Books
Published 5/6/2008 at Baseball Toaster
My favorite part about asking people for their list of ten essential baseball books was not learning that "Ball Four" or "Glory of Their Times" are so popular. We already knew that. What really turned me on were the titles I had never of like ...

Bavasi and the Bookshelf
Published 5/7/2008 by Jay at The Futility Infielder
... [image] which featured Baker, Jeff Greenfield, Michael Shapiro, and John Thorn, as well as Allan Barra taking his usual amusing potshots from the peanut gallery. Alex had just published a survey of essential baseball books for which he solicited 10 apiece from over 50 writers, including our entire cast. The top 10 most frequently named books, garnering from 13 to 35 mentions, aren't especially revealing to me, as I named six of them in ...

Published 5/9/2008 by Aaron (noreply@blogger.com) at AaronGleeman.com
... Alex Belth asked 55 "historians, biographers, columnists, beat writers, screenwriters, novelists" for a list of 10 "essential baseball books" and I'm in complete agreement with the most popular pick. ...

168 Baseball Books Worth Reading
Published 5/9/2008 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
Filed under: MLB FansAlex Belth of Bronx Banter came up with a pretty cool idea: I thought it'd be fun to ask a group of seamheads--historians, biographers, columnists, beat writers, screenwriters, novelists--for a list of their ten essential baseball books. Not the ten best books or even the ten most essential books just ten essential ones. All in all he heard from 55 different people who suggested 168 different books. Jim Bouton's Ball Four appeared on the most ballots, followed by Lawrence Ritter's ...