Baseball Historians

There’s little doubt that Yankee Stadium is iconic in nature so it’s no surprise that with the All Star Game coming to the Bronx, that Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective would eventually top the baseball book list.  Outside of tha…

We have a new number one, with Living on the Black taking the top spot from the 33 Year Old Rookie.   There’s also two new books to the top ten so lets take a look at the list.
1) Living on the Black
2) Moneyball
3) The 33 Year Old Rookie
4) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
5) Deep Drive
6) [...]

Nothing new except in the order in this weeks Top Ten…
1) The 33 Year Old Rookie
2) Moneyball
3) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
4) Living on the Black
5) We Would Have Played for Nothing
6) Cubs Forever
7) Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
Vindicated
9) The Mental ABC’s of Pitching
10) Baseball Prospectus 2008
Living on the Black made [...]

I took a couple of weeks off on this and ironically, without a lot of new entrants into the mix, the list is most of the same books from three weeks ago, albeit in a different order.  We have a new number one which is interesting but here’s the list:
1) The 33 Year Old Rookie
2) [...]

For the second week in a row, we have a new number one book on the Amazon.com top ten baseball book list.  This week it’s H.A. Dorfman’s The Mental ABC’s of Pitching.  The book came out in 2000 and it looks like a New York Times editorial a couple of weeks ago is what caused [...]

I know the past few weeks the only content I’ve provided is the top ten list but I’m hoping for that to change soon.  I’m making my way through a few books and I have a few new ones on the way.  In the meantime, keeping on my regular Sunday schedule has at least given [...]

There’s a couple of newcomers this week.  It’s interesting how a few days can shift this list a lot.  Just a couple of days ago, the 33 Year Old Rookie would have been near the bottom but it’s had a good showing while the ESPN Encyclopedia was moving up only to plummet off the list [...]

Rob Neyer has a new book coming out in less then two weeks.  Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends comes out on April 1 and it looks like an interesting read.  You can check out an excerpt of the book by hitting the link.