Diamond Classics: Essays on 100 of the Best Baseball Books Ever Published

by Mike Shannon

Each work, chosen with exquisite care by an expert, is analyzed and summarized. Its greatness as baseball literature, its place in the genre, its peculiarities, weaknesses, strengths, how the critics went for it--all are discussed in such a way, with quotations, that reading or browsing Shannon's book is equivalent to absorbing a rich history of the sport.

Genres: Sports

471 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1989