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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
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