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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Eight Men Out
Eliot AsinofReconstructs the 1919 Chicago 'Black Sox' fix and is a foundation for later writing on baseball's integrity and business.
Ball Four
Jim BoutonA pitcher's season-by-season diary that revealed clubhouse life and broke the convention of players not criticizing the game publicly.
Moneyball
Michael LewisFollows the Oakland Athletics' use of statistical analysis to build a competitive team on a low budget, and popularized sabermetrics.
The Boys of Summer
Roger KahnMemoir of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, written as a reflection on that team's era and its later dispersal.
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Bill JamesOffers a historical statistical comparison of players across eras and sets out the analytic method that shaped later sabermetric writing.
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- Sports Illustrated
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