Other Books About Baseball, The Greatest of All Sports

…in addition to The Art of Fielding (currently eating up the holiday recommendation lists) and Moneyball, which you should enjoy. Or, you know, which you should give as gifts to fine, baseball-book-reading people.

For People Who Truly and Deeply Love Baseball:

Anything by Roger Angell, but especially The Summer Game
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn

For People Who Don’t Necessarily Care About Baseball:

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning, Jonathan Mahler
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, Jonathan Eig
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, Eliot Asinof
For People Who May Actively Dislike Baseball But Like Funny Things:

Ball Four, Jim Bouton
The Umpire Strikes Back, Ron Luciano
The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform — and Maybe the Best, Jeff Pearlman

Only Me:

The Year The Expos Almost Won The Pennant, Brodie Snyder