These baseball books, both fiction and nonfiction will make you nostalgic.
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Bang the drum slowly / |
This is the second novel in a quartet about major league pitcher Henry Wiggens. Funny and touching, it relates the trials of a season, while also telling of Wiggens and his best friend and catcher, who is dying. |
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Crazy '08 : how a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates created the greatest year in baseb |
1908 was the last year the Cubs won a World series, a fact bitterly known to many a Chicagoan . But this win was only one historic fact in one of the most memorable years in baseball, and author Murphy also shows us everything in and out of the park that made this year truly worthy of the title Crazy '08. |
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Cubs nation :162 games,162 stories,1 addiction/ |
Focusing on one season, this collection of stories from people from all walks of life is a book for all those who want to understand the fans who stick by the Cubs through thick and thin. |
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Eight men out : the Black Sox and the 1919 world series / |
Asinof writes a compelling history of the biggest scandal in baseball, the fixing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox. Sympathetically but honestly told, the author looks at not only the players involved, but the hardened gamblers and greedy owners that contributed to this tale of the corruption of the national pastime. |
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The great American novel. |
Both slapstick and satiric, novelist Roth takes on the national pastime, showing us the mythic and earthy qualities of the game as he follows the worst team in the history of baseball . |
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Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game / |
This look at the business behind the game of baseball follows the Oakland A's, who built a winning team based on talent, not salaries. |
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The natural / |
A true classic, this is the story of Roy Hobbes, a gifted "natural�. After a mistake made in his youth almost robs him of his dreams of playing the game he loves, he gets a second chance. |
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Shoeless Joe / |
Kinsella, one of the great bards of baseball, wrote this novel that was made into the movie Field of Dreams. A man hears voices, builds a baseball diamond in a cornfield and magically finds a way to reconnect with both the baseball legend he worshiped and the dead father he wished he knew. |
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Sox and the city : a fan's love affair with the White Sox from the heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards |
Movie columnist Roeper grew up on the South Side of Chicago, following the White Sox his whole life, and his love of the game, the city and above all the Sox shines through in this engaging personal story. |
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The sweetheart season : a novel / |
In post-WWII Minnesota, a struggling factory forms an all-girl baseball team to raise morale and attract the veterans back to town. |
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Three nights in August : strategy, heartbreak, and joy, inside the mind of a manager / |
Focusing on a crucial three game series between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals at the end of the 2003 baseball season, this unique look at Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will be fascinating to all baseball fans, even loyal Cub fans. |
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The thrill of the grass / |
Kinsella is one of the greatest voices to write about the game of baseball, and this collection of stories is one of his best. In the story the "Last Pennant Before Armageddon� the manager of the Chicago Cubs prays for his team to win the pennant, and then discovers that might signal the end of the world. What's a fan to do? |
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Wait till next year : a memoir / |
Noted historian Goodwin shares stories of her childhood in suburban New York, including the love of baseball that she shared with her father. |
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You know me Al : a busher's letters / |
Ring Lardner's fictional collection of letters from a brash bush league pitcher to his friend back home, are by turns hilarious and moving. Lardner was a sportswriter in Chicago for years. |