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The Summer Game
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"Arguably the most famous baseball writer, and I haven't read anything by him!"
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This Time Let's Not Eat the Bones: Bill James Without the Numbers
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"The amount of Bill James I've read in my life is embarrassing."
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Pages from Baseball's Past
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"I'm kind of alternating between stats and more "romantic" baseball books here..."
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The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
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"On Davy's recommendation, and also because I loved Up, Up, and Away."
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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"More history. Super fascinated by this scandal I know basically nothing about."
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Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
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"I recall someone I respect saying this was fantastic. I don't remember who though."
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The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
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"The other baseball memoir I read (Tim Wakefield's) was not good, but hopefully this will be better, given that I already enjoy Hayhurst's writing."
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
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"I really don't remember how I found this one, though the name Carson Cistulli is somehow coming to mind."
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The Hall of Nearly Great
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"So many great writers here, and also potentially lots of cool history too."
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A's Essential: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan!
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"There are basically no books about the A's other than Moneyball, whose story has been rehashed too much. Maybe this will be good enough for a quick refresher on history."
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The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
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"I love keeping score!!!"
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Pafko at the Wall
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"DeLillo is someone I've always meant to read... This will probably be the first thing I read by him."
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Sep 19, 2014 12:19AM
I'm already kind of mourning the end of the regular season. Sigh...
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