501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die
501 "Contributors"
A work in constant progress (and in no particular order).
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
Howard Megdal
The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players