SABR's Essential Baseball Library
In 1998, a panel of baseball writers and researchers from SABR were asked
to identify their favorite books. The list was compiled by Paul D. Adomites
and here are the SABR contributors: Dick Beverage, Alan Blumkin, Bill Borst,
Jack Carlson, Jon Daniels, Jay Feldman, Cappy Gagnon, Mark Gallagher, Bob
Hoie, Lloyd Johnson, Tom Jozwik, Jack Kavanagh, Phil Lowry, Vern Luse, John
Pardon, Frank Phelps, Larry Ritter, Louis Rubin, Leverett T. Smith, Adie
Suchsdorf, Jules Tygiel, and David Voigt.
For any book to be listed it had to be recommended by at leaast four of the
members above. The two most mentioned were
The
Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia and
The
Glory of Their Times.
Statistics
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The
Sports Encyclopedia - Baseball ~ Neft, Cohen, Deutsch
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The
Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia
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The Sporting News Baseball Guides & Registers
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The
Hidden Game of Baseball ~ Thorn & Palmer
History
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Eight
Men Out ~ Eliot Asinof
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Daguerreotypes
~ The Sporting News
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The
Unforgettable Season ~ Gordon Fleming
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The
American League ~ Donald Honig
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The
National League ~ Donald Honig
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Bill
James Historical Baseball Abstract ~ Bill James
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The
Boys of Summer ~ Roger Kahn
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Baseball
As I Have Known It ~ Fred Lieb
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The
Ultimate Baseball Book ~ Okrent & Lewine, eds
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Baseball
- The Early Years ~ Harold Seymour
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Baseball
- The Golden Age ~ Harold Seymour
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Judge
Landis and the Twenty-Five Years of Baseball ~ J.G. Taylor Spinks
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American
Baseball (vol 1) ~ David Voigt
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American
Baseball (vol 2) ~ David Voigt
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American
Baseball (vol 3) ~ David Voigt
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Even
the Browns ~ William B. Mead
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Putnam Team Histories
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The Old Ball Game ~ Tristram Coffin
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Men
in Blue ~ Gerlach
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Dollar
Sign on the Muscle ~ Kevin Kerrane
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The
Imperfect Diamond ~ Lowenfish & Lupien
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The
Glory of Their Times ~ Lawrence Ritter
Fiction
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Shoeless
Joe ~ W.P. Kinsella
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The
Natural ~ Bernard Malamud
The Minors
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Bush
League ~ Robert Obojski
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Minor
League Stars I ~ SABR
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Minor
League Stars II ~ SABR
Biograpghy and Other
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Ty
Cobb ~ Charles Alexander
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Ball
Four ~ Jim Bouton
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The
Long Season ~ Jim Brosnan
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Pennant
Race ~ Jim Brosnan
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Babe
~ Robert L. Creamer
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Stengel
- His Life and Times ~ Robert L. Creamer
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Nice
Guys Finish Last ~ Leo Durocher
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Baseball
Between the Lines ~ Donald Honig
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Baseball
When the Grass Was Real ~ Donald Honig
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A
False Spring ~ Pat Jordan
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Suitors
of Spring ~ Pat Jordan
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Ban
Johnson, Czar of Baseball ~ Eugene Murdock
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The
Life that Ruth Built ~ Marshall Smelser
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Veeck
as in Wreck ~ Bill Veeck
Anthologies and Collections
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The
Hot Stove League ~ Lee Allen
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Five
Seasons ~ Roger Angell
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Late
Innings ~ Roger Angell
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The
Summer Game ~ Roger Angell
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How
Life Imitates the World Series ~ Thomas Boswell
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Why
Time Begins on Opening Day ~ Thomas Boswell
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Insiders
Baseball ~ L. Robert Davids, ed
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The Fireside Books of Baseball (3 vols) - Charles Einstein, ed
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The
Baseball Reader (a 1 vol compilation of the 3) ~ Einstein, ed
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The
Armchair Book of Baseball ~ John Thorn
Negro Leagues
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Voices
from the Great Negro Baseball Leagues ~ John Holway
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Only
the Ball Was White ~ Robert Peterson
Ballparks
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Green
Cathedrals ~ Phil Lowry
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Take
Me Out to the Ball Park ~ Reidenbaugh & Carter, eds
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Ballparks
~ Shannon
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Best Selling Books by Category, Grouped
25 at a Time
Coaching:
1-25
26-50
51-75
Statistics:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-99
General:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-100
Essays:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-100
History:
1-25
26-50
51-75
76-100
Special:
Audio
baseball books on cassette (great for the car!)
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out of print, used
and pre 1998
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Amazon Recommends:
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Trivia
& Games
Kids and Scouts
Coaching
Cards, Collectibles
and Memorabilia
Minor Leagues
World Series
Talk
Amatuer Leagues and
Women in Baseball
Japanese
& Foreign
Negro Leagues
Ballparks
Stars
Hall of Fame
Salaries, Money and
Buisiness
Fantasy Baseball
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