Tonight is Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game here in the U. S. Why not celebrate by reading a book about the national pastime? Here are some suggestions, both fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction
- Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
- The Natural by Bernard Malamud
- The Brothers K by David James Duncan
- The Great American Novel by Philip Roth
- You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.by Robert Coover
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
Nonfiction
- The Summer Game by Roger Angell
- October 1964 by David Halberstam
- Imperfect: An Improbable Life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
- Ball Four by Jim Bouton
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Ted Williams by Leigh Montville
- Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer
- Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch
- Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig
- Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy
- Eight Men Out: The Black Sox And The 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
- Babe by Robert Creamer
- Cobb by Al Stump
- Juiced by Jose Canseco
What’s missing? Please post about your favorite baseball book, either fiction or nonfiction, in the comments.
