501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die
501 "Contributors"
​A work in constant progress (and in no particular order).
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To borrow a phrase from Yogi Berra, I'd like to thank the men and women whose work appears in 501 for making this book necessary. Here you will find web sites for those who have 'em.
Paul Dickson
​The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, The Joy of Keeping Score​, and Baseball: The President's Game
Jonathan Eig
​Luckiest Man and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season​
Joseph Wallace
​Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game and World Series: An Opinionated Chronicle
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert
​Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball​
Jonathan Mayo
​Facing Clemens: Hitters on Confronting Baseball's Most Intimidating Pitcher
Sean Manning
​​Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time
​TalkingCovers.com (editor)
Tim Wiles
​Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"​
Jonathan Eig
​​Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
Will Leitch
​Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball​
Will Leitch
​Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball​
Rob Fleder
​​Editor of Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book, Sports Illustrated: Great Baseball Writing and Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
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Howard Megdal
​The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players