The Wrong Stuff
by Bill Lee | 
The Heart of the Order
by Thomas Boswell | 
Five Seasons
by Roger Angell | 
The Long Season
by Jim Brosnan |
How Life Imitates the World Series
by Thomas Boswell |
Baseball Dynasties
by Rob Neyer | 
Veeck As in Wreck
by Blll Veeck | 
The Game from Where I Stand
by Doug Glanville | 
Nice Guys Finish Last
by Leo Durocher |
The Old Ball Game
by Frank Deford | 
The Pitch That Killed
by Mike Sowell | 
Ball Four
by Jim Bouton |
Nine Innings
by Daniel Okrent | 
The Summer Game
by Roger Angell |
Why Time Begins on Opening Day
by Thomas Boswell | 
The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach | 
Calico Joe
by John Grisham | 
Miracle on 49th Street
by Mike Lupica | 
The Last Shot
by Darcy Frey | 
The Professional
by W. C. Heinz |
'??One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.'? '??Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonus'??one of the largest paid to any new player by the organization'??and shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club. It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseball'??s backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness. Declared '??unforgettable'? by the Los Angeles Times and '??a major triumph'? by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise.