For the Baseball enjoyers out there.

[@GrammaticusBooks]

So I have a co-worker who is a baseball fanatic. He's always talking about baseball and baseball books and recommended both Moneyball and Ball Four. Good video Joseph!

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Thanks!

[@demidrek-heyward]

Excellent Joseph!!! You da goat

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Thank you!

[@billyscardcorner8118]

The Bullpen Gospels is one of the best baseball books I’ve read. I would be crying from laughter. It’s a lot like ball four but a little more modern.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Thanks for the recommendation. I will add it to my wishlist!

[@sw3dge]

The background and history of baseball remains the strangest in all of sports.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Yes it does. The history of baseball is what hooked me the most.

[@sethball2475]

Great video, and I do occasionally gravitate to Sports Nonfiction, so I’ll take these suggestions to heart. I’m gonna recommend some fiction that deals in baseball: The great Fantasy novel centered on baseball is Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop. It’s my favourite book by him (so far), and it’s loaded with baseball and…surprises. There’s also The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, by W. P. Kinsella. Someone recommended a different Kinsella novel to me years ago, but, at the bookstore, I got lured to Iowa Baseball Confederacy instead, precisely because of its Fantasy elements. Other baseball fictions by Kinsella (that I have not read) are Shoeless Joe, and The Thrill of the Grass (but I don’t know if they are Fantasy stories). Baseball-related Crime & Mystery fiction that I have read: My favourite is Wild Pitch, by A. B. Guthrie Jr.. Not featuring the Major Leagues, but if that doesn’t matter, it’s still heavy into baseball. And murder! There’s also For Murder I Charge More, by Frank McAuliffe. This book is actually four novellas, the best one maybe being the baseball-centric one. The tone is humorous and playful. The only other Crime & Mystery book I can think of is Problems Solved, by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg. Short stories. Lots of baseball content, obviously based on a love of the game, worked into many of the stories (especially in the, uh, late innings). Speaking of gay baseball players, the only General Fiction novel I read is called The Dreyfus Affair, by Peter Lefcourt. I know, years ago, Betty Thomas was all set to do a film version, but it didn’t happen. I very much enjoyed the book, though. That’s all I got! If it was Cricket, no Baseball, gosh could I recommend some early Wodehouse! Meanwhile, baseball fiction, even genre fiction, does go a bit beyond The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

These are wonderful recommendations. Thank you! I also enjoy Cricket so I'm open to recommendations.

[@demidrek-heyward]

There's a fantasy baseball crossover book I read as a kid by the author Michael Chabon called Summerland. From what I can remember this kid travelled to some fantasy realm to play baseball or something? As a baseball obsessed youth I really enjoyed it

[@demidrek-heyward]

Summerland is a 2002 fantasy young adult novel by American writer Michael Chabon. It is about young children who save the world from destruction by playing baseball, the central theme and symbol throughout the novel

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I like Michael Chabon. I will check it out!

[@demidrek-heyward]

@@JosephReadsBooks it’s def for a younger audience but still was dun

[@demidrek-heyward]

Fun

[@pl566]

What a great idea! Can you edit the video title? In think there might be people out there searching for "Baseball Books". A while back I read several mysteries by Troy Soos "Murder at Fenway Park", "Murder at Wrigley field"..... They're not too bad as I recall and easy reads. I think Moneyball was the first digital book that I ever bought for Kindle. I don't remember it so much now because I watch the movie every year. Thanks for the video!

[@JosephReadsBooks]

Thanks for the suggestion! I will add "baseball books" to the tags(it is a hidden thing) which should help people find it. I need to look into those baseball mysteries.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

So I looked up the Troy Soos novels. It is a perfect recommendation! A handful of the are free on Audible, including your recommendations. He is a contributor to SABR(a historical Baseball group). I think I have books he helped write on the history of turn of the century baseball. My wife and I are going to read "Murder st Fenway Park" together.

[@SheWasOnlyEvie]

My husband recommends The Natural by Bernard Malamud. Considering he doesn’t read much, especially fiction, I’d take his recommendation seriously. Haha!

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I have read it! Back when my channel was new I made a review of it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHSwc4d6gcZpqa8si=lto0t_rcw-3fWvdJ The book is so strange. It is somehow wonderfully written and almost unreadable.

[@SheWasOnlyEvie]

@@JosephReadsBooks I’m a fake fan. 😭

[@JosephReadsBooks]

@@SheWasOnlyEvie until recently it had like 19 views. I just assume no one has seen it 😂

[@saintdonoghue]

You’re talking about baseball, but you’re not wearing Red Sox gear. This is confusing.

[@JosephReadsBooks]

I do talk about a former Red Sox player(Kevin Youklis) in the video. Does that help reduce the confusion? 😂