15 Best Books for Baseball-Starved Fans

It’s an unfortunate byproduct of the coronavirus emergency: Just when baseball fans need their game the most, it’s in mothball status. Next best thing? Curl up with a great baseball book. Here are 15 favorite reads, listed roughly in order of their original publication dates. (These are all nonfiction. There’s a world of wonderful baseball fiction—deserving its own list). Confession: I’m a lifelong Yankee fan, so this collection skews heavily toward the Bronx.