Are you baseball depressed yet? Since our sports world is on hold, the alternative is going old school and reading about baseball. I am an avid reader who considers the Kindle, ATM, and coffee machine as man’s greatest technological accomplishments. Even before the virus, I would binge on reading with histories followed by science fiction and baseball. I will offer up some recent reads that I found enjoyable, enlightening, and informative.
The first, or batting leadoff, is two books by Dr. Rob Bauer and two books in conjunction with the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). Both are on an era I have a crusade like addiction and that is baseball in the dead-ball era.