In honor of the new season I'm attaching my list of current baseball books and videos. I believe this to be the largest collection of baseball related material in all of Ireland, which is a bit like saying I hold the largest collection of tapas recipes in all Antarctica. Still - it keeps me amused. Here's the list:
Non-Fiction
1.
The
New Bill James Baseball Abstract – Bill James
2.
A
Dollar Sign On The Muscle – Kevin Kerrane
3.
The
Prophet Of The Sandlots – Mark Winegardner
4.
The
Short Season – David Falkner
5.
Pen
Men – Bob Cairns
6.
The
Crooked Pitch – Martin Quigley
7.
The
Head Game – Roger Kahn
8.
The
Boston
9.
The
Boston
10.
The
Red Sox Fan Handbook – Leigh Grossman
11.
The
Red Sox Fan Book – Neft, Neft, Carroll & Cohen
12.
The
Red Sox Reader – Dan Riley Ed.
13.
Red
Sox Nation – Peter Golenbeck
14.
When
Boston
15.
Lost
Summer – Bill Reynolds
16.
The
Boys Of October – Doug Hornig
17.
The
Long Ball – Tom Adelman
18.
Impossible
Dreams – Glen Stout Ed
19.
Win
It For – SOSH
20.
Why
Not Us – Leigh Montville
21.
A
Tale Of Two Cities – Tony Massarotti and John Harper
22.
The
Yankees vs Red Sox Reader – Mike Robbins, ed.
23.
Now
I Can Die In Peace – Bill Simmons
24.
Baseball
Anecdotes – Dan Okrent, Steve Wulff
25.
Baseball’s
Even Greater Insults – Kevin Nelson
26.
Baseball
Hall Of Shame – Nash & Zullo
27.
Baseball
Hall Of Shame #2 – Nash & Zullo
28.
Baseball
Hall Of Shame # 4 – Nash & Zullo
29.
The
Devil Wears Pinstripes – Jim Caple
30.
The
Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty – Buster Olney
31.
Ty
Cobb – Charles Alexander
32.
Cobb
– Al Stump
33.
Babe
– Robert Creamer
34.
Stengel
– Robert Creamer
35.
The
Big Bam – Leigh Montville
36.
Luckiest
Man – Jonathan Eig
37.
The
Catcher Was A Spy – Nicholas Davidoff
38.
Joe
Dimaggio – Richard Ben Cramer
39.
Hitter
(Ted Williams)– Ed Linn
40.
The
Mick – Mickey Mantle w/Arch Gluck
41.
Sandy
Koufax – A Lefty’s Legacy – Jane Leavey
42.
Hank
Aaron The Man Who Beat The Babe– Phil
Musick
43.
White
Rat – Whitey Herzog w/Kevin Horrigan
44.
Seeing
It Through – Tony Conigliaro w/ Jack Zanger
45.
Tony
C. – David Cataneo
46.
Yaz
– Carl Yastrzemski w/Al Hirschberg
47.
Yaz:
Baseball, The Wall And Me – Carl Yastrzemski and Gerald Eskenazi
48.
Yastrzemski
– Carl Yastrzemski
49.
The
Wrong Stuff – Bill Lee and Dick Lally
50.
El
Tiante – Luis Tiant and Joe Fitzgerald
51.
The
Summer Game – Roger Angell
52.
Five
Seasons – Roger Angell
53.
Late
Innings – Roger Angell
54.
Season
Ticket – Roger Angell
55.
The
Complete Armchair Book Of Baseball – John Thorn, Ed.
56.
The
Fireside Book Of Baseball – Charles Einstein, Ed.
57.
The
Fireside Book Of Baseball Vol. 2 – Charles Einstein, Ed.
58.
The
Fireside Book Of Baseball Vol. 3 – Charles Einstein, Ed.
59.
The
Fireside Book Of Baseball Vol. 4 – Charles Einstein, Ed.
60.
Official
World Series Program – 2004
61.
Keep
The Faith – 2004 World Championship Commemorative Magazine
62.
The
Greatest Of All / The 1927 Yankees – John Mosedale
63.
The
Teammates – David Halberstam
64.
October
1964 – David Halberstam
65.
Summer
Of ’49 – David Halberstam
66.
Big
Sticks – William Curran
67.
The
Complete Baseball Handbook 1974 – Zander Hollander
68.
Baseball
And The Color Line – Tom Gilbert
69.
Moneyball
– Michael Lewis
70.
Out
Of Left Field – Jeffrey And Douglas Lyons
71.
Wait
‘Til Next Year – Doris Kearns
Goodwin
72.
Baseball
In America
73.
The
Unforgettable Season – G. H. Fleming
74.
The
Glory Of Their Times – Lawrence
75.
Baseball
When The Grass Was Real – Donald Honig
76.
The
Heart Of The Order – Thomas Boswell
77.
Why
Time Begins On Opening Day – Thomas Boswell
78.
Ball
Four And Ball Five – Jim Bouton
79.
I’m
Glad You Didn’t Take It Personally – Jim Bouton
80.
I
Managed Good But Boy Did They Play Bad – Jim Bouton
81.
The
Boys Of Summer – Roger Kahn
82.
The
Baseball Chronicles – David Gallen, Ed.
83.
Cooperstown – Editors Of The Sporting News
84.
You
Gotta Have Wa – Robert Wahlberg
85.
The
Greatest Game – Richard Bradley
86.
Clemente
– David Maraniss
87.
Baseball
Between the Numbers – Baseball Prospectus/Ed. Jonah Keri
88.
Game
Six – Mark Frost
89.
Extra
Innings Baseball – Armchair Digest (Adomites, Mark, et al)
90.
162-0
– The Greatest Wins in Red Sox History - Mark Cofman
91.
Behind
the Green Monster – Bill Ballou
92.
Satchel
– The Life and Times of an American Legend – Larry Tye
93.
Odd
Man Out – Matt McCarthy
94.
A
False Spring – Pat Jordan
95.
Once
More Around the Park – Roger Angell
96.
The
Last Boy – Mickey Mantle – Jane Leavey
97.
Tales
from the Impossible Dream Red Sox – Rico Petrocelli w/Chaz Scoggins
98.
The Impossible Dream
Remembered – The 1967 Red Sox – Ken Coleman
99.
Baseball:
Our Game – John Thorne
100.
Fenway
Park: 100th Anniversary – John Powers and Ron Driscoll
Fiction
101.
Fielders
Choice – Baseball Fiction – Jerome Holtzman, Ed.
102.
The
Iowa
103.
The
Dixon
104.
The
Thrill Of The Grass – W. P. Kinsella
105.
Shoeless
Joe – W.P. Kinsella
106.
Hoopla
– Harry Stein
107.
The
Conduct Of The Game – John Hough
Audio Books
108.
The
Great Chase - The 1951 Pennant Race – Harvey Rosenfeld
109.
Bums
– Peter Golenbeck
110.
Ted
Williams – Leigh Montville
111.
Legends
of Baseball Audio Series – (Interviews w/ Baseball Players)
112.
The
Summer Game – Roger Angell
113.
Walter
Johnson – Baseball’s Big Train - Henry Thomas
114.
Honus
Wagner – A Biography – Dennis and Jane Burke DeValeria
115.
Steinbrenner
– Bill Madden
Videos/CDs
116.
Baseball
– A Film By Ken Burns
117.
The
Tenth Inning – Ken Burns
118.
100
Years Of The World Series
119.
100
Years Of The Boston
120.
Impossible
to Forget, The Story of the 1967 Boston
121.
Yaz
– Career Highlights
122.
Keep
The Faith – 2003 Boston
123.
Faith
Rewarded – 2004 Boston
124.
Still,
We Believe
125.
Still,
We Believe (Bonus Edition)
126.
The
2004 World Series
127.
2004
ALCS Games 1-7
128.
2004
World Series Games 1-4
129.
Reverse
of the Curse of the Bambino
130.
History
Rings True
131.
Champions
Again – 2007 Boston Red Sox
132.
The
Impossible Dream – The 1967 Boston
133.
Super
Sox ’75 – The 1975 Boston
134.
Red
Sox Memories- Greatest Moments In Boston
135.
Four
Days in October – ESPN 30 for 30 Directed by Gary Waksman
136.
Major
League Baseball World Series Film Collection 1943-2008
137.
Fenway
Park – 100 Years as the Heart of Red Sox Nation
138.
Rooters
– The Birth of Red Sox Nation Vol. 1&2
139.
Fenway Park 100 –Season Highlights 1955, 1957,
1967, 1975, 1978
140.
Fenway Park 100 –Season Highlights 1986, 1990;
Greatest Rivalries Sox-Yankees
141.
Fenway Park 100 –Season Highlights 2004
142.
Fenway Park 100 –Season Highlights 2007
143.
Fenway Park 100 –Game Film Sept. 30 1967
144.
Fenway Park 100 –Game Film, Game 6 1975
145.
Fenway Park 100 –Game Film 1986 ALCS Game 7
146.
Fenway Park 100 –Game Film 1999 All Star Game
147.
Fenway Park 100 –Game Film ALCS Game 4
148.
Fenway Park 100 –/Game Film ALCS Game 7
149.
2013 World Series Official Film
150.
Band of Bearded Brothers – 2013 Red Sox
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