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Looking for a gift for the baseball fan  – or some entertaining reading for yourself.  Here are links to several past Baseball Roundtable book reviews (Or baseball volumes old and new, non-fiction and fiction) that may help.  

Just click on the book’s image to find the review.  

The Last Best League – One Summer, One Season One Dream (Tenth Anniversary Edition),

by Jim Collins

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey – How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game,

by Edward Achorn

Bill Veeck:  Baseball’s Greatest Maverick,

by Paul Dickson

STAN MUSIAL – An American Life,

by George Vecsey

Summer of ’68: The Season that Changed Baseball, and America, Forever,

by Tim Wendel

Down To The Last Pitch – How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best World Series of All Time,

by Tim Wendel

1954 – The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Baseball Forever,

by Bill Madden

Driving Mr. Yogi:  Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry and Baseballs’ Greatest Gift,

by Harvey Araton

Fifty-nine in ’84,

by Edward Achorn

The Great American Novel,

by Philip Roth

One Shot At Forever … A Small Town, An Unlikely Coach, And A Magical Baseball Season,

by Chris Ballard

Harmon Killebrew – Ultimate Slugger,

by Steve Aschburner

The Cracker Jack® Collection … Baseball’s Prized Players,

by Tom Zappala and Ellen Zappala

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Major League Encounters,

by Larry LaRue

Calico Joe,

by John Grisham

Chin Music,

by Lee Edelstein