The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
There's certainly a large literature around baseball in the U.S.
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.
I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming-of-age baseball novel, 'Scooter.'
I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
