The 13 best baseball books

Jimmy So is Deputy Books Editor at Newsweek/The Daily Beast. One of his thirteen best baseball books: The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn “I’ve seen the Brooklyn Dodgers / Play in Ebbets Field,” Tom Waits croaked, as if it was a privilege. It was. It’s more than that: it’s myth. To relive the legend, you need Kahn’s The Boys of Summer, the story of titans like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and