Baseball on the brain? Read these books

October 28, 10:03 AMSeattle Books ExaminerDanielle Dreger-Babbitt

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Is the World Series rain delay driving you as crazy as it is me?  Is the fall classic giving you an ulcer?  It  doesn't  matter if you're a Philly Phanatic or a Tampa Bay Rays fan sporting a rayhawk and ringing a cowbell, or if you've waited 28 years or 11 years for a Championship title, I have created a baseball booklist to get you through the rest of the series.

Fiction:

The Fade-away by George Jansen

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

Spirits in the Grass by Bill Meissner

The End of Baseball: A Novel by Peter Schilling

Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and Jere Smith

Kansaska by Jeff Stanger

Nonfiction:

Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within by Mike Lowell and Rob Bradford

Money Ball: The Art of Winning in an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Indian Summer: The Tragic Story of Louis Francis Sockalexis, the First Native American in major League Baseball by Brian McDonald

The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond by Jeff Silverman

Zim: A Baseball Life

Young Adult:

Summerland: A Novel by Michael Chabon

Screwball by David Ferrell

Out of Order by A.M. Jenkins

The Key to the Golden Firebird by Maureen Johnson

My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge

My Brother's Keeper by Patricia McCormick

Seven Days in a Hot Corner by Terry Truman

Farm Team by Will Weaver

Hard Hit by Ann Warren Turner

Bat 6 by Virgina Euwer Wolff