The 2010 Major League Baseball season starts Sunday! In preparation for the big day, here are the new and newish books we have on baseball. Not all have been read by yours truly, but having found them, a couple of these titles are now on my “to read” list, if not this weekend, for sweet baseball filled summer days:
- Smart Ball: Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball by Robert Lewis
- The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad by Robert Elias
- Jackie Robinson and the American Dilemma by John R.M. Wilson
- Willie Mays: The Life and Legend by James S. Hirsch
- Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame by Zev Chaftets
- Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball by Jay Martin
- The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound by Ron Darling and Daniel Paisner
- Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself by Michael Shapiro
- Willie’s Boys: the 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, the Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Legend by John Klima
- Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: the Triumph of the American Pastime by Mark Frost
- Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made it Happen by Lew Paper
Read books, play ball.