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Ten Books That Changed Baseball

By: Paul Aron

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Paperback | 20 July 2022

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Focusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige''s Pitchin'' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner''s You Know Me Al changed the way Americans viewed their baseball heroes and influenced the work of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Bill James''s Baseball Abstract transformed the way managers--including those in fields other than baseball--analyzed numbers. Pete Rose''s My Story and My Prison Without Bars exposed and deepened a cultural divide that paved the way for Donald Trump.

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"No one has read the literature of baseball with as much insight as Paul Aron has. Even better, his narratives about the creation and the impact of his selected books are as engaging as many of the books themselves. I approached this book expecting cogent literary analysis. I didn't expect to be charmed and delighted as well. This is a marvelous book."-Daniel Okrent, author of Nine Innings and co-editor of The Ultimate Baseball Book

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