2024 Baseball Books – 31

Read 137 books in 2024 and 31 of them were baseball-themed.

They are as follows:

“A Game of Extremes: 25 Exceptional Baseball Stories about What Happened on and off the Field” by Roy Lingster (Finished August 5) – Oh Goodie A Book
“Baseball and Black Gold: Tulsa’s Love Affair with America’s National Pastime” by Elven Lindblad (Finished April 8) – Kindle via Amazon.com
“Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets” by Steve Kettmann (Finished July 12) – Kindle via Amazon.com
“Baseball’s Natural:  The Story of Eddie Waitkus” by John Theodore (Finished June 2) – South Montgomery County Friends of the Library
“Bases Loaded: The Inside Story of the Steroid Era in Baseball by the Central Figure in the Mitchell Report” by Kirk Radomski with David Fisher (Finished April 20) – Friends of Houston Public Library

“Branch Rickey: A Penguin Life” by Jimmy Breslin (Finished August 8) – Beaumont Second & Charles
“Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball’s Color Line” by Tom Dunkel (Finished August 27) – Round Rock Half Price Books
“Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had” by Edward Achorn (Finished April 8) – Kindle via Amazon.com
“Girls of Summer: The Real Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League” by Lois Browne (Finished May 26) – Half Price Books Mansfield
“Homeseekers, Parasites, And The Texas Midland:  The Texas League in Paris 1896-1904” by Kris Rutherford (Finished June 25) – Amazon.com

“If These Walls Could Talk:  Stories from the Boston Red Sox Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box” by Jerry Remy and Nick Cafardo (Finished April 30) – South Montgomery County Friends of the Library
“Imperfect:  An Improbable Life” by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Finished September 18) – Humble Half Price Books
“Invisible Men:  Life In Baseball’s Negro Leagues” by Donn Rogosin (Finished April 13) – Personal Collection
“Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big” by Jose Canseco (Finished May 3) – Half Price Books Waco Outlet
“Kiss It Good-Bye:  The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates” by John Moody (Finished February 20) – Personal Collection

“Last Time Out: Big League Farewells of Baseball’s Greats” by John Nogowski (Finished July 29) – Half Price Books Humble
“Letters From Lefty:  The Houston Astros:  The Way They Were” by Mickey Herskowitz (Finished June 18) – Kaboom Books / Houston
“Mark McGwire: Home Run Hero” by Rob Rains (Finished July 16) – Oh Goodie A Book
“Roberto Clemente:  Batting King” by Arnold Hano (Finished December 1) – San Antonio Hwy 281 Half Price Books
“Rookie: When Michael Jordan Came To The Minor Leagues” by Jim Patton (Finished April 10) – Half Price Books College Station

“Ross Youngs:  In Search of a San Antonio Baseball Legend” by David King (Finished May 27) – Amazon
“Safe At Home:  The True And Inspiring Story of Chicago’s Field of Dreams” by Bob Muzikowski with Gregg Lewis (Finished September 2) – Oh Goodie A Book
“The Fireballer:  A Novel” by Mark Stevens (Finished January 1) – Kindle via Amazon Prime Reading
“The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball” by Paul Dickson (Finished March 13) – Personal Collection
“The Last Miracle: My 18-Year Journey with the Amazin’ New York Mets” by Ed Kranepool with Gary Kaschak (Finished August 28) – Kindle via Amazon.com

“The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age” by Robert Weintraub (Finished January 4) – Kindle via Amazon
“Three Finger:  The Mordecai Brown Story” by Cindy Thomson and Scott Brown (Finished April 30) – Kaboom Books
“Tom Seaver:  A Terrific Life” by Bill Madden (Finished March 11) – Barnes & Noble The Woodlands
“Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts (Vol. 3)” edited by Joanne Hulbert and Jay Hurd (Finished August 4) – Society for American Baseball Research
“When Chicago Ruled Baseball:  The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906” by Bernard A. Weisberger (Finished March 13) – Recycled Books, Records, & CDs, Denton
“Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess” by Evan Drellich (Finished January 17) – Barnes and Noble The Woodlands