📚 Baseball

The diamond and the stat sheet: America’s pastime and the nine-inning culture around it.

Below are the 29 works carrying the subject baseball in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Training Diary	Pletl	2020	155
	The Sports Encyclopedia	Richard M. Cohen	1987	27
	Ball Four	Jim Bouton	1970	19
	Moneyball	Michael Lewis	2003	16
	Men at work	George F. Will	1990	14
	Baseball	Benjamin G. Rader	1992	10
	The boys of summer	Roger Kahn	1972	9
	The summer game	Roger Angell	1972	7
	Tales from the Dugout	Mike Shannon	1997	7
	Joe DiMaggio	Richard Ben Cramer	2000	7
	Veeck as in wreck	Bill Veeck	1962	6
	The Glory of Their Times	Ritter, Lawrence S.	1966	6
	Baseball's great experiment	Jules Tygiel	1983	6
	The pitch that killed	Mike Sowell	1989	5
	Lords of the Realm	John Helyar	1994	5
	The numbers game	Alan Schwarz	2004	5
	Baseball	George Vecsey	2006	5
	Only the ball was white	Peterson, Robert	1970	4
	The tropic of baseball	Rob Ruck	1991	4
	The science of hitting	Williams, Ted	1971	3
	The Bill James historical baseball abstract	Bill James	1986	3
	The only rule is it has to work	Ben Lindbergh	2016	3
	Ball Four, Plus Ball Five	Jim Bouton	1981	2
	Catcher in the wry	Bob Uecker	1983	2
	The new Bill James historical baseball abstract	Bill James	2001	2
	Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!	Frank Murphy	2005	2
	It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over	Baseball Prospectus	2007	2
	Watching Baseball Smarter	Zack Hample	2007	2
	The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League	Daisy Scott	2001	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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