Subscribe‘Tis the season: Sports books make fine gifts
James Baily published his list of top ten baseball books on Baseball America. His choices include, in order:
- The Art of Fielding: A Novel
, by Chad Harbach (currently ranked #18 on Amazon)
- Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game
, by Dan Barry
- Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
, by John Thorn
- Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
, by Neil Lanctot
- Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway’s Remarkable First Year, by Glenn Stout
- Major League Baseball Profiles, 1871-1900, 2-volume set
, compiled and edited by David Nemec
- The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
, by Jonah Keri
- Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure
, by Craig Robinson
- The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 mph
, by Shawn Green with Gordon McAlpine
- Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
, by Aaron Pribble
It’s interesting to note that several of these titles were written by Jewish authors, including Thorn, Green, Pribble, Keri (and one would assume Weintraub).
In addition, here are a few adult sports books also written by MOTs, for your consideration:
- Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports
, by Mark Ribowsky
- There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell
, by Josh Bloom
- Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
, by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert
- Taking the Field: A Fan’s Quest to Run the Team He Loves
and Wilpon’s Folly: The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets
, both by Howard Megdal
- Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want to Be One (Jewish Lives)
, by Mark Kurlandksy
- When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks
, by Harvey Araton
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