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Baseball Books
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Countless novels, stories, poems and non-fiction books have been written about baseball. Following are a few no fan should miss:
Exhibition Companion Books
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Baseball As America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game
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National Geographic Society 2001 |
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America at Bat: Baseball Stuff and Stories |
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Paul Rosenthal, 2002 |
Poems and Short Stories
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The Silver-Colored Yesterday
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in Chicago: City on the Make, Nelson Algren, 1951
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Casey at the Bat
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Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1888
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Novels
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The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
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Robert Coover, 1968
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Bang the Drum Slowly
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Mark Harris, 1956
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Shoeless Joe
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W.P. Kinsella, 1982 |
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You Know Me Al
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Ring Lardner, 1916
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The Dreyfus Affair |
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Peter Lefcourt, 1992
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The Natural
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Bernard Malamud, 1952 |
Non-Fiction
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The Summer Game
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Roger Angell, 1972
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series |
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Eliot Asinof, 1963 |
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Why Time Begins on Opening Day
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Thomas Boswell, 1984
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Ball Four
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Jim Bouton, 1970
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My Baseball Diary
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James T. Farrell, 1957 |
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Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball
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John Helyar, 1994 |
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The Boys of Summer
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Roger Kahn, 1972 |
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Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games |
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A. Bartlett Giamatti, 1990 |
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Only the Ball Was White
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Robert Peterson, 1970 |
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Veeck as in Wreck |
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Bill Veeck, 1962 |
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