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Baseball in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Videorecordings

Fiction titles are listed alphabetically by author. Nonfiction titles are listed in call number order. The 796 range of call numbers may be found on the Mezzanine. For help finding them, or other items, Ask Us!

Fiction:

The Fan, Peter Abrahams

Gift of the Bambino, Jerry Amernic

Strike Zone, Kate Angell

Foul Play: A Sofie Metropolis Novel, Tori Carrington

The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, Frank Deford

Dreaming Baseball, James T. Farrell

Screwball, David Ferrell

Scooter, Mick Foley

The Sweetheart Season, Karen Joy Fowler

Forced Out, Stephen W. Frey

Columbus Slaughters Braves, Mark Friedman

Suicide Squeeze, Victor Gischler

A Painted House, John Grisham

Snow in August, Pete Hamill

Diamond Place, Robin Lee Hatcher

Season of Gene, Dallas Hudgens

Perfect Silence, Jeff Hutton

7,000 Clams, Lee Irby

All the Stars Came Out That Night, Kevin King

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King

Magic Time, W. P. Kinsella

Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger

Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring LardnerRing Lardner

Havana World Series, José Latour

Oh, Johnny, Jim Lehrer

Wild Pitch, Mike Lupica

The Natural, Bernard Malamud

Waiting for Teddy Williams, Howard Frank Mosher

The Heavenly World Series: Timeless Baseball Fiction, Frank O’Rourke

The Rail, Howard Owen

Double Play, Robert B. Parker

Cooperstown, Eugena Pilek

The Bridegrooms, Allison Pittman

Slider, Patrick Robinson

The Cuban Prospect,  Brian Shawver

Lights Out, Jason Starr

Roadrunner, Trisha R. Thomas

Long in the Tooth, David A. Turrill

The Curse: Cubs Win! Cubs Win!—Or Do They? Andy Van Slyke

Diamond Ruby, Joseph Wallace

Everyone’s Dead but Us, Mark Richard Zubro

Nonfiction:

Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, Edward Achorn  796.357 ACH

Barry Bonds [DVD Videorecording]  796.357 BAR

Baseball  [DVD Videorecording]  796.357 BAS (SET)

Baseball. Tenth Inning  [DVD Videorecording]  796.357 BAS

Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Ze’ev Chafets  796.357 CHA

The Baseball: Stunts, Scandals, and Secrets Beneath the Stitches, Zack Hample  796.357 HAM

56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, Kostya Kennedy  796.357 KEN

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, Jane Leavy  796.357 LEA

101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out Josh Pahigian  796.357 PAH

The Baseball Fan’s Bucket List: 162 Things You Must See, Do, Get, and Experience Before You Die, Robert Santelli  796.357 SAN

Baseball Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Baseball, Matthew Silverman  796.357 SIL

You’re the Umpire: 139 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge, Wayne Stewart  796.357 STE

The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, Jason Turbow  796.357 TUR

We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved, Fay Vincent  796.357 VIN

But Didn’t We Have Fun?: An Informal History of Baseball’s Pioneer Era, 1843-1870
Peter Morris  796.35709 MOR

Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, John Thorn  796.35709 THO

Baseball: An Illustrated History, Geoffrey C. Ward  796.35709 WAR

Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game, Dan Barry  796.35764 BAR

Baseball’s Most Unbreakable Feats [DVD Videorecording]  796.35764 BAS

Change Up: An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Modern Baseball Larry Burke  796.35764 BUR

Chasing October: A Fan’s Crusade[DVD Videorecording]  796.35764 CHA

The Curse of the Bambino [DVD Videorecording]  796.35764 CUR

“Then Ozzie Said to Harold”: The Best Chicago White Sox Stories Ever Told Lew Freedman  796.35764 FRE

Major League Baseball All Century Team [DVD Videorecording]  796.35764 MAJ

Hammerin’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year That Baseball Changed Forever, John Rosengren  796.35764 ROS

We Believe [DVD videorecording]  796.35764 WE

White Sox Memories: The Greatest Moments in Chicago White Sox History [DVD Videorecording]  796.35764 WHI

100 Years of the World Series [DVD Videorecording]  796.357646 ONE

The Babe [DVD Videorecording]  B RUTH

This Old Cub [DVD Videorecording]  B SANTO

Feature Films on DVD:

Against Time  DVD AGA

American Pastime  DVD AME

Angels in the Outfield  J DVD ANG (in Youth Services)

The Benchwarmers  DVD BEN

Bull Durham DVD BUL

Damn Yankees  DVD DAM

Everyone’s Hero  DVD EVE

Fear Strikes Out  DVD FEA

Fever Pitch  DVD FEV

Field of Dreams DVD FIE

The Final Season  DVD FIN

How Do You Know?  DVD HOW

A Little Inside  DVD LIT

Mickey: A Family Story  DVD MIC

A Month of Sundays  DVD MON

Mr. 3000  DVD MR

The Natural  DVD NAT

The Pride of the Yankees  DVD PRI

The Stratton Story  DVD STR

Sugar DVD SUG

Summer Catch  DVD SUM

Touching Home  DVD TOU

This list represents a sampling of materials on baseball. For more items, Ask Us!

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