Three Percent

Well, we did it: One whole episode just about baseball and books about baseball and baseball memories and anything else baseball. Caitlin Luce Baker of Island Books, James Crossley of Madison Books, and Dan Wells of Biblioasis join Chad W. Post from Open Letter to pick their "all-time favorite" books about baseball.
This week's music is "The Yips" and "Eraseable Man" by The Baseball Project.
Caitlin's Picks:
The Cultural History of Baseball by Jonathan Fraser Light
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton
The Physics of Baseball by Robert K. Adair
Alan Nathan's blog, The Physics of Baseball
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham by Ron Shelton
Away Games: The Life and Times of a Latin Ballplayer by Marcos Bretón and José Luis Villegas
Lords of the Realm by John Helyar

Dan's Picks:
Keystone Kids by John R. Tunis
Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters by Mark Kingwell
1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year by Heidi LM Jacobs

James's Picks:
All of Roger Angell
A False Spring & A Nice Tuesday by Pat Jordan
The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes
The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball by Donald Hall

Chad's Picks:
Baseball Genius by Derek Jeter
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life by Rick Ankiel
Believeniks!: 2005: The Year We Wrote a Book About the Mets by Ivan Felt and Harris Conklin

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