When I was about 10 years old, I got really into baseball. I was a bookish kid already, so anytime I went to the library I checked out two kinds of books - Matt Christopher novels and baseball biographies. Matt Christopher wrote a series of fictional kids books about baseball like Catcher with a Glass Arm and The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, which I loved. I also loved reading biographies about players from before my time - Johnny Bench (which was more R-rated than I had expected), Harmon Killebrew, and Bob Allison (I guess the librarian was a Twins fan?
My summer baseball reading list
