Year One
1. Baseball Amerca, by Donald Honig
2. The Perfect Game, ed by Mark Alveraz
3. Babe, by Robert Creamer
3. Ball Four, by Jim Bouton
4. Fences, by August Wilson
5. Baseball and the Game of Life, edited by Peter C. Bjarkman
6. The Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James
7. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
8. Ball Four – The Final Pitch, by Jim Bouton
9. Late Innings, by Roger Angell
Year Two
10. Baseball’s Golden Age: the photographs of Charles M. Conlon, ed. by Neal and Constance McCabe
11, The Natural, by Bernard Malamud
12. I’m Glad You Didn’t Take It Personally, by Jim Bouton
13. Foul Ball, by Jim Bouton
14. Baseball Haiku, ed. by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura
Year Three (2015!)
15. The Big Show, ed. by Neal and Constance McCabe
16. The Glory of Their Times, by Lawrence Ritter
Year Four (2016)
17. Playing for Keeps – A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein
Year Five (2017)
18. Diamonds are Forever – Artists and Writers on Baseball, edited by Peter Gordon
19. Baseball and Philosophy, edited by Eric Bronson
20. Memories of Summer, by Roger Kahn
21. Crazy ’08, by Cait Murphy
22. Heroes of the Negro Leagues, by Mark Chiarello and Jack Morelli
23. The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century, by Philip Seib
Year Six (2018)
24. Fall Classics, the Best Writing about the World Series’ First 100 Years, edited by Bill Littlefield and Richard A. Johnson
25. Pure Baseball, Pitch by Pitch for the Advanced Fan, by Keith Hernandez and Mike Bryan
Year Seven (2019)
26. Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox, by Allen Wood
Year Eight (2020)
27. K, The History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, by Tyler Kepner
It gets quiet out in left field, sometimes. Perhaps a bit lonely, even with all those people. You’re out their by yourself. Another inning, another patch of grass, another pitch in an endless series of innings, grassy patches, pitches. What’s been gained, over all those innings? What’s it all mean?
okay, I took a lotta pictures. And okay, this one’s photoshopped up a bit. Love the swing of the bat, the frozen moment.
Yup, photoshop is a guilty pleasure of mine. I try not to let it get out of control.
