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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 least four of the members above. The two most mentioned were The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia and The Glory of Their Times.

Statistics The Sports Encyclopedia - Baseball ~ Neft, Cohen, Deutsch The Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia The Sporting News Baseball Guides & Registers The Hidden Game of Baseball ~ Thorn & Palmer History Eight Men Out ~ Eliot Asinof Daguerreotypes ~ The Sporting News The Unforgettable Season ~ Gordon Fleming The American League ~ Donald Honig The National League ~ Donald Honig Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ~ Bill James The Boys of Summer ~ Roger Kahn Baseball As I Have Known It ~ Fred Lieb The Ultimate Baseball Book ~ Okrent & Lewine, eds Baseball - The Early Years ~ Harold Seymour Baseball - The Golden Age ~ Harold Seymour Judge Landis and the Twenty-Five Years of Baseball ~ J.G. Taylor Spinks American Baseball (vol 1) ~ David Voigt American Baseball (vol 2) ~ David Voigt American Baseball (vol 3) ~ David Voigt Even the Browns ~ William B. Mead Putnam Team Histories The Old Ball Game ~ Tristram Coffin Men in Blue ~ Gerlach Dollar Sign on the Muscle ~ Kevin Kerrane The Imperfect Diamond ~ Lowenfish & Lupien The Glory of Their Times ~ Lawrence Ritter Fiction Shoeless Joe ~ W.P. Kinsella The Natural ~ Bernard Malamud The Minors Bush League ~ Robert Obojski Minor League Stars I ~ SABR Minor League Stars II ~ SABR Biograpghy and Other Ty Cobb ~ Charles Alexander Ball Four ~ Jim Bouton The Long Season ~ Jim Brosnan Pennant Race ~ Jim Brosnan Babe ~ Robert L. Creamer Stengel - His Life and Times ~ Robert L. Creamer Nice Guys Finish Last ~ Leo Durocher Baseball Between the Lines ~ Donald Honig Baseball When the Grass Was Real ~ Donald Honig A False Spring ~ Pat Jordan Suitors of Spring ~ Pat Jordan Ban Johnson, Czar of Baseball ~ Eugene Murdock The Life that Ruth Built ~ Marshall Smelser Veeck as in Wreck ~ Bill Veeck Anthologies and Collections The Hot Stove League ~ Lee Allen Five Seasons ~ Roger Angell Late Innings ~ Roger Angell The Summer Game ~ Roger Angell How Life Imitates the World Series ~ Thomas Boswell Why Time Begins on Opening Day ~ Thomas Boswell Insiders Baseball ~ L. Robert Davids, ed The Fireside Books of Baseball (3 vols) - Charles Einstein, ed The Baseball Reader (a 1 vol compilation of the 3) ~ Einstein, ed The Armchair Book of Baseball ~ John Thorn Negro Leagues Voices from the Great Negro Baseball Leagues ~ John Holway Only the Ball Was White ~ Robert Peterson Ballparks Green Cathedrals ~ Phil Lowry Take Me Out to the Ball Park ~ Reidenbaugh & Carter, eds Ballparks ~ Shannon

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