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Costas, Bob. Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball. Broadway, 2000. A sportscaster's vision of what the game should be.

Dickson, Paul, ed. The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary. Harcourt Brace, 1999. Seven thousand entries explain the origins and meaning of baseball terms and jargon.

Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. Oxford University Press, 1999. A cultural history, from 1860 to the present.

Gregorich, Barbara. Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball. Harcourt Brace, 1993. History of women in professional baseball.

Gutman, Dan. The Way Baseball Works. Simon& Schuster, 1996. Bats, balls, gloves, uniforms, helmets, aging, groundskeepers, pitches; introduced by Tim McCarver.

Kahn, Roger. The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound. Harcourt, 2000. A baseball historian looks at the evolution of pitching.

Neyer, Rob, and Eddie Epstein. Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time. Norton, 2000. Excellent appreciation, not just based on win records.

Pietrusza, David; Matt Silverman; and Michael Gershman, eds. Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia. Total Sports, 2000. A collection of 2,000 biographies.

Riley, James. The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Carroll &Graf, 1994. Information and statistics on players and teams.

Schwarz, Alan. The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics. St. Martin's, 2004. A sports journalist's entertaining look at the use of statistics in baseball.

Smith, Curt. Voices of the Game: The First Full-Scale Overview of Baseball Broadcasting, 1921 to Present. Simon & Schuster, 1992. History with profiles and anecdotes.

Sullivan, Neil J. The Minors: The Struggles and the Triumph of Baseball's Poor Relation. St. Martin's, 1990. Sympathetic history of minor league baseball.

Tygiel, Jules. Past Time: Baseball As History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Nine essays relate America's pastime to its history.

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