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Get Started[color=#006400 said:biggunsbob[/color]]Some other baseball books that are really good are in no particular order are that I have read over the years.
'MoneyBall'- by Micheal Lewis 2003. (You either are a believer or you are not)
"Crazy 08'- By Cait Murphy 2008.
(How a Cast of Cranks, Rouges, Boneheads and magnates created the Greatest year in Baseball history. 1908 The NL had two teams finish a game out of first,and the AL had two teams finish a half a game back and 1.5 games back in one of the great pennant chases of all time.
'The Bad Guys Won'- 2004by Jeff Pearlman Aabout the 1986 Mets.
'Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars' 1994 by Ricard Bak...The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933.
'When Chicago ruled Baseball' 2006 By Bernard a. Weisberger. About the 1906 World series.
'Whatever happened to the Hall of Fame' 1995 by Bill James..
'Down To the wire' 1992 by Jeff Miller.... About the 1967 AL pennant race.
'When Boston Won the World Series...2003 By Bob Ryan...
'Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms...2001 by Elden Aulker Tom Keegan...
The year Babe Ruth hit 104 Home runs'..2007 By Bill Jenkinson...
'Red Legs and Black Sox...2006 by Susan Dellinger... Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series...
'Ninety Feet From Fame...2004 by Mike Robbins.... Close Calls with baseball Immortality.
'Eight Men out' ...1963 by Eliot Asinof... About the 1919 Black Sox scandal. ( i liked it but I have a newer book I am reading a right now about the same year in questioned)...
The Numbers game 2004 by Alan Schwarz... Baseballs lifelong fascination with statistics.
mjsb2 said:[color=#006400 said:biggunsbob[/color]]Some other baseball books that are really good are in no particular order are that I have read over the years.
'MoneyBall'- by Micheal Lewis 2003. (You either are a believer or you are not)
"Crazy 08'- By Cait Murphy 2008.
(How a Cast of Cranks, Rouges, Boneheads and magnates created the Greatest year in Baseball history. 1908 The NL had two teams finish a game out of first,and the AL had two teams finish a half a game back and 1.5 games back in one of the great pennant chases of all time.
'The Bad Guys Won'- 2004by Jeff Pearlman Aabout the 1986 Mets.
'Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars' 1994 by Ricard Bak...The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933.
'When Chicago ruled Baseball' 2006 By Bernard a. Weisberger. About the 1906 World series.
'Whatever happened to the Hall of Fame' 1995 by Bill James..
'Down To the wire' 1992 by Jeff Miller.... About the 1967 AL pennant race.
'When Boston Won the World Series...2003 By Bob Ryan...
'Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms...2001 by Elden Aulker Tom Keegan...
The year Babe Ruth hit 104 Home runs'..2007 By Bill Jenkinson...
'Red Legs and Black Sox...2006 by Susan Dellinger... Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series...
'Ninety Feet From Fame...2004 by Mike Robbins.... Close Calls with baseball Immortality.
'Eight Men out' ...1963 by Eliot Asinof... About the 1919 Black Sox scandal. ( i liked it but I have a newer book I am reading a right now about the same year in questioned)...
The Numbers game 2004 by Alan Schwarz... Baseballs lifelong fascination with statistics.
You should check out burying the black sox, it's the best book about the scandal.
[color=#006400 said:biggunsbob[/color]]
mjsb2 said:You should check out burying the black sox, it's the best book about the scandal.
Yes I think on the old Tiger board you or someone else mentioned 'Eight men out' was full of some mis-information so I picked up the book you mentioned above and have read about 20 pages..
Thanks good book so far...
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