Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion by Roger Angell
- - This book collected Angell’s New Yorker columns from 1972 to 1976 which talked about changes in the game of baseball, the Oakland A’s Moustache Gang, Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record, the 1975 World Series and so much more.
Red Smith on Baseball: The Game’s Greatest Writer on the Game’s Greatest Years
- - Many of these columns are a bit outdated for my liking, the 1940’s and 1950’s, but the amount of wit and humor that Smith uses encourages me and drives me to be a better writer.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- - Who hasn’t read Moneyball or at least seen the movie right?
The Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle with Peter Golenbock
- - The author and the title kind of give this one away but it is the story of the 1978 World Series champion New York Yankees. George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin (again) and Reggie Jackson make for pure entertainment.
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