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Baseball in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Videorecordings
 

There's The Windup.

Fiction:

Fiction titles are listed alphabetically by author.

The Fan, Peter Abrahams
Gift of the Bambino, Jerry Amernic
Curveball, 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
Columbus Slaughters Braves, Mark Friedman
Suicide Squeeze, Victor Gischler
Prairie Hardball: A Kate Henry Mystery, Alison Gordon
Spirit of the Season, Heather Graham
A Painted House, John Grisham
Snow in August, Pete Hamill
Diamond Place, Robin Lee Hatcher
The Plot To Kill Jackie Robinson, Donald Honig
Season of Gene, Dallas Hudgens
Perfect Silence, Jeff Hutton
7,000 Clams, Lee Irby
The Youngest Hero, Jerry B. Jenkins
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 Lardner
Ring Lardner
Havana World Series, José Latour
Wild Pitch, Mike Lupica
The Natural, Bernard Malamud
Sizzling, Susan Mallery
Coyote Moon, John A. Miller
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 Way Home Is Longer, Christopher Renino
Slider, Patrick Robinson
The Great American Novel, Philip Roth
The Cuban Prospect,  Brian Shawver
Hanging Curve, Troy Soos
Lights Out, Jason Starr
Roadrunner, Trisha R. Thomas
Ballpark Blues, C. W. Tooke
Long in the Tooth, David A. Turrill
Things Invisible to See, Nancy Willard
Everyone’s Dead but Us, Mark Richard Zubro

Nonfiction:

Nonfiction titles are listed in numerical order.

Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Andy Strasberg  781.594 STR

Baseball  [DVD Videorecording]  796.357 BAS VOL. 1 through VOL. 5

The Bases Are Loaded [DVD Videorecording]  796.357 BAS

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

Viva Baseball: How Latinos Shaped America’s Pastime [DVD Videorecording]
796.357 VIV

Far from Home: Latino Baseball Players in America
Tim Wendel  796.357 WEN

The Ultimate Baseball Collector’s Collection [DVD Videorecording]  796.357075 ULT

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

Barry Bonds [DVD Videorecording]  796.357092 BAR

My Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer
Steve Garvey  796.357092 GAR

This Old Cub [DVD Videorecording]  796.357092 THI

Tim McCarver’s Diamond Gems: Favorite Stories from the Legends of the Game,
Tim McCarver, editor  796.357092 TIM

We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved, Fay Vincent  796.357092 VIN

Billy Williams: My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime with the Cubs
Billy Williams  796.357092 WIL

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of ‘78
Richard Bradley  796.35764 BRA

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

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

Cubs Journal: Year by Year & Day by Day with the Chicago Cubs since 1876
John Snyder  796.35764 SNY

The Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series [DVD Videorecording, set of 7 discs]
796.357646 CHI

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

The Babe [DVD Videorecording]  B RUTH

Feature Films on DVD:

Against Time  DVD AGA
The Benchwarmers  DVD BEN
Damn Yankees  DVD DAM
Everyone’s Hero  DVD EVE
Fear Strikes Out  DVD FEA
Fever Pitch  DVD FEV
A Little Inside  DVD LIT
Mickey: A Family Story  DVD MIC
Mr. 3000  DVD MR
The Natural  DVD NAT
The Pride of the Yankees  DVD PRI
The Stratton Story  DVD STR
Summer Catch  DVD SUM

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

 

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