Baseball Bibliography

Alexander, Charles C. Our Game: An American Baseball History. New York: MJF, 1991.

 ____. Ty Cobb. New York: Oxford, 1984.

 ____. John McGraw. New York: Viking, 1988.

Asinof, Elliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. Boston: Henry Holt, 1963.

Biegel, Brian. Miracle Ball: My Hunt for the Shot Heard 'Round the World. New York: Crown, 2009.

Breslin, Jimmy. Branch Rickey. New York: Viking, 2011.

Chalberg, John C. Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America's Game. Wheeling, Ill: Harlan Davidson, 2000.

 Creamer, Robert W. Baseball ’41: A Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever – In the Year America Went to War. New York: Viking, 1991.

 ____. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

 ____. Stengel: His Life and Times. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska, 1996.

D'Antonio, Michael. Forever Blue: The Story of Walter O'Malley. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.

Di Salvatore, Bryan. A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery War. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1999.

Eig, Jonathan. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

____. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Fleming, G. H. The Unforgettable Season. New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1981.

 Gregory, Robert. Diz: The History of Dizzy Dean and Baseball During the Great Depression. New York: Viking, 1992.

 Halberstam, David. Summer of ’49. New York: Perennial, 2002.

 ____. Teammates. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

 ____. October 1964. New York: Ballatine Books, 1995.

Lanctot, Neil. Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011.

 Levine, Peter. A. G. Spaulding and the Rise of Baseball. New York: Oxford, 1985.

 Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer. New York: Perennial, 2000.

 ____. October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees’ Miracle Finish in 1978. New York: Harcourt, 2003.

King, Kevin. All the Stars Came Out That Night: A Novel.  New York: Plume/Penguin, 2006.

Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe. New York: Mariner Books, 1999.

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1952.

Monteville, Leigh. The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth. Garden City: Doubleday, 2006.

Moore, Gary W. Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams. New York: Savas Beatie, 2006.

Murphy, Cait. Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, an Magnets Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History. New York: Smithsonian Book/Collins, 2007

Pearlman, Jeff. The Rocket that Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Race for Baseball Immortality. New York: Harpers, 2009

Posnanski, Joe. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America. New York: Morrow, 2007.

Prager, Joshua. The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thompson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Rader, Benjamin G. Baseball: A History of America's Game. Urbana: Illinois, 2002.

Rampersad, Arnold. Jackie Robinson: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Roberts, Salena. A-Rod: The Many Lives Alex Rodriquez. New York: Harper, 2009.

Robinson, Ray. Iron Horse: Lou Gerhig in His Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. New York: Perennial, 1992.

Shapiro, Michael. Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Ricky, Casey Stangel and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball. Times, 2009.

Stump, Al. Cobb: A Biography. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1996.

 Thomas, Henry W. Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train. Washington, DC: Phnom, 1995.

Thorn, John. Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Vecsey, George. Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game. New York: Modern American Library, 2006.

Weintraub, Robert. The House that Ruth Built. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011.