You Know Me Al
10 best books like You Know Me Al (Ring Lardner): Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, Cobb: A Biography, Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, The Lords of the Realm, Pigs Is Pigs, A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti, How Life Imitates the World Series, Bang the Drum Slowly, Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." -- Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary player, world-famous for his hitting prowess, he transcended the sport to enter the...
| Author | Al Stump |
| ISBN | 1565121449 |
A New York Times Notable Book; Spitball Award for Best Baseball Book of 1994; Basis for a major Hollywood motion picture. Now in paperback, the biography that baseball fans all across the country have been talking about. Al Stump redefined America's perception of one of its most famous sports heroes...
Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
| Author | Bill Veeck |
| ISBN | 0226852180 |
Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the history of baseball and tales of players...
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
| Author | Lawrence S. Ritter |
| ISBN | 0688112730 |
All these were honored in their generation,
And were the glory of their times.
Ecclesiasticus 44:7
Boston Red Sox, spring traing, 1915. Hot Springs Arkansas
Highlighted players, left to right
Smokey Joe Wood
Dutch Leonard
Babe Ruth
Carl Mays
Germany...
| Author | John Helyar |
| ISBN | 0345465245 |
In this fascinating, colorful chronicle -- based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging -- John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped America's favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great...
| Author | Ellis Parker Butler |
| ISBN | 1410103226 |
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
| Author | A. Bartlett Giamatti |
| ISBN | 1565121929 |
With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball's Renaissance man and its commissioner. In A GREAT AND GLORIOUS GAME, a collection of spirited, incisive...
| Author | Thomas Boswell |
| ISBN | 0140064699 |
I read this too long ago to remember the details. What I do recall was that it was well-written and packed with great stories. But that's beside the point.
I'm afraid my motives for writing this pseudo-quasi-non-review are all too transparent. It has little to do with the book itself aside from...
Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball “with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family.” More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship...
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
| Author | Jules Tygiel |
| ISBN | 0195106202 |
In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young...
| Author | Eric Rolfe Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0803270372 |
The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-life saga of the first national baseball hero,...
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
| Author | Robert Coover |
| ISBN | 0452260302 |
Underrated gem - it's a difficult book, especially in the second half, but it has both beauty and daring going for it. The story of a man who gets more and more into his simulated baseball game. Less about baseball than about theology, and most of all it seems to me to be a parable about writing. It has some...
Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
| Author | Robert W. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0517205017 |
Early in the 1920s, the New York Giants sent a scout to watch a young Cuban play for Foster's American Giants, a baseball club in the Negro Leagues. During one at-bat this talented slugger lined a ball so hard that the rightfielder was able to play it off the top of the fence and throw Christobel Torrienti...
| Author | Ted Williams |
| ISBN | 0671621033 |
“Baseball’s last .400 hitter share[s] his secrets in this primer still used at all levels of the game.” —Paul Dickson, author of Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick
Now fully revised with new illustrations and diagrams, the classic—and still the greatest—book on hitting...
| Author | W.P. Kinsella |
| ISBN | 0140073868 |
No one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W. P. Kinsella. Lovers of the game and lovers of fine writing will thrill to the range of the eleven stories that make up this new collection. From the magical conspiracy of the title story, to the celestial...
The Bronx Zoo: The Astonishing Inside Story of the 1978 World Champion New York Yankees
| Author | Sparky Lyle |
| ISBN | 1572437154 |
This bestselling, highly-acclaimed account is a hilarious but scathing baseball tell-all. After being voted the 1977 American League Cy Young Award winner, Sparky Lyle was rewarded for his efforts by being benched. The Yankees, a leader of free agency, signed Goose Gossage as their closer. Things...
Game Time: A Baseball Companion
| Author | Roger Angell |
| ISBN | 0156013878 |
Roger Angell has been writing about baseball for more than forty years . . . and for my money he's the best there is at it," says novelist Richard Ford in his introduction to Game Time. Angell's famous explorations of the summer game are built on acute observation and joyful participation, conveyed in...
| Author | Pat Jordan |
| ISBN | 0803276265 |
In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with seemingly limitless potential, one of the first...
The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played
| Author | Tom Adelman |
| ISBN | 0316796441 |
The 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is generally considered the best of all time, and baseball historians often rank its sixth game as the greatest single game ever played. In this resoundingly acclaimed bestseller, Tom Adelman tells the story of the season that...
About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up
| Author | Roy Blount Jr. |
| ISBN | 0822958341 |
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an interesting book. But only Roy Blount Jr. could capture the pain, the joy, the fears, the humor—in short,...
| Author | Mike Sowell |
| ISBN | 1566635519 |
Since major league baseball began in 1871, there have been roughly 30 million pitches thrown to batters. Only one of them killed a man. This is the story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees....
| Author | Bob Uecker |
| ISBN | 0515090298 |
I read this book years ago while still at school, then recently picked it out of a “Used Book” bin and reread it last weekend. Guess what? It’s still funny and poignant, full of Uecker witticisms and observations. Uecker cracks jokes about his lack of ability and continuous hell-raising while...
