Date
November 23, 2016
Summary
Ben, Sam, and Andy McCullough of the Los Angeles Times draft a few of their favorite baseball books.
Topics
- Baseball books
Intro
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, "Long Hard Book"
Outro
The Band, "Book Faded Brow"
Banter
- Offseason schedule of baseball writers
Draft Selections
- Andy: The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty by Buster Olney
- Andy: Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball by John Helyar
- Andy: Season Ticket by Roger Angell
- Sam : Nine Innings by Daniel Okrent
- Sam: Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950 by Scott Simkus
- Sam: Prophet of the Sandlots: Journeys with a Major League Scout by Mark Winegardner
- Ben: Baseball Between the Numbers by Nate Silver
- Ben: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
- Ben: The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwartz