All Time Faves: Round the Bases -- Books about Baseball
Discover the best baseball books of all time! Explore our curated list of round-the-bases favorites, from classic tales to modern must-reads for every fan.
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The Fan
by Peter Abrahams
When a baseball star fails to bring victory to his team, Gil Renard, an outraged fan who has lost everything except his fanatic passion for baseball, decides to murder him. The novel follows the murderer, a knife salesman, as he infiltrates the world of the fallen hero to make things right. By the author of Pressure Drop.
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The Entitled
by Frank Deford
Sportswriter, screenwriter, and author Deford scores another hit with this novel of athletes behaving badly.
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Wild Pitch
by Mike Lupica
Lupica's hilarious take on America's favorite sport is now in paperback. ""Wild Pitch" captures the angst, the pathos, and the rare exhilaration of being a Red Sox guy. This book is really good."--Robert B. Parker.
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
Malamud uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society.
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The Great American Novel
by Philip Roth
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic extravagance…. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself" (The New York Times). Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundys—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.