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2011 Baseball Annuals • Statistics and Analysis • Fantasy (Rotisserie) Baseball
Baseball History, Biography, and Anecdotes • Ballparks & Road Trips • Collectibles • Fiction • Miscellaneous

2011 MLB Baseball Annuals

(Note: prior to Jan/Feb, many of these titles are on pre-order. See the page for the book you want.)

• The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2011 - Hardball Times
• Baseball Prospectus 2011 - Baseball Prospectus
• Baseball Forecaster 2011 - Ron Shandler
• The Bill James Handbook 2011 - Bill James
• Baseball America 2011 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of the 2010 Season - Baseball America
• Baseball America 2011 Directory: 2011 Baseball Reference, Schedules, Contacts, Phone Info & More - Baseball America
• Baseball America 2011 Prospect Handbook - Baseball America
• Minor League Baseball Analyst 2011 - Deric McKinney

Statistics and Analysis

• The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball - Tom Tango
• Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong - Baseball Prospectus
• Total Baseball : The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball (8th Ed) - John Thorn, Phil Birnbaum, Bill Deane, Rob Neyer
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract - Bill James
• The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics - Alan Schwarz
• The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, and Pitches - Bill James, Rob Neyer
• Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia - John Thorn
• Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? - Bill James (Strikethree.com review)

Fantasy (Rotisserie) Baseball

• Baseball Hacks: Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics - Joseph Adler
• Fantasy Baseball Strategy: Advanced Methods for Winning Your League - Henry Lee
• The Winner's Guide to Fantasy Baseball - Chris Lee

Baseball History, Biography, and Anecdotes

• San Francisco Giants: Torture to Rapture - 2010 World Series Champions - San Francisco Chronicle
• The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood - Jane Leavy
• Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back - Josh Hamilton, Tim Keown
• Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball - Bill Madden
• 61* : The Story of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and One Magical Summer - Ron Smith
• Ball Four - Jim Bouton
• Baseball Dynasties: The Greatest Teams of All Time - Rob Neyer
• Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia - David Pietrusza
• Baseball between the Lines: Baseball in the Forties and Fifties, As Told by the Men Who Played It - Donald Honig
• The Boys of Summer - Roger Kahn
• Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series - Eliot Asinof
• Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season - Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King
• Feeding the Green Monster - Rob Neyer
• The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond - Jeff Silverman
• I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story - Hank Aaron
• Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big - Jose Canseco
• The Mick - Mickey Mantle, Herb Gluck
• Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning - Baseball Prospectus (they're better at books than they are at titles, honest)
• October 1964 - David Halberstam
• A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone - Roger Angell
• Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else - Rob Neyer
• Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager - Buzz Bissinger
• Veeck-As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck - Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
• When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! - Yogi Berra
• The Yankee Years - Joe Torre, Tom Verducci

Ballparks & Road Trips

• The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums - Joshua Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell
• Ballparks - Robert Von Goeben, Red Howard
• Fenway Park: A Ballpark Pop-up Book - Major League Baseball
• Wrigley Field: A Ballpark Pop-Up Book - Major League Baseball
• Ballparks Then and Now - James Robinson
• 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out - Joshua Pahigian
• Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All Major League Ballparks - Philip Lowry
• Blue Skies, Green Fields: A Celebration of 50 Major League Baseball Stadiums - Ira Rosen
• Roadside Baseball: The Locations of America's Baseball Landmarks - Chris Epting (Author), Joe Buck (Foreword)
• Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields - Lawrence S. Ritter
• Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields - Lynn Curlee
• The Ballpark Book: A journey Through the Fields of Baseball Magic - Ron Smith, Kevin Belford

Collectibles

• 2010 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards - Don Fluckinger
• The Official Beckett Price Guide to Baseball Cards 2010 - James Beckett
• Collecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook, 2d ed. - Dan Zachofsky
• Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia - Peter Golenbock (Editor)
• Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections - Stephen Wong

Fiction

• The Annotated Baseball Stories of Ring W. Lardner, 1914-1919 - George W. Hilton (Editor), Ring W. Lardner
• The Boy Who Saved Baseball - John H. Ritter
• The Brothers K - David James Duncan
• Summerland - Michael Chabon
• Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella

Miscellaneous

• The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime - Jason Turbow, Michael Duca
• Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks - Zack Hample
• The Baseball Maniac's Almanac - Bert Randolph Sugar
• Hot Stove Economics: Understanding Baseball's Second Season - J.C. Bradbury
• Baseball For Dummies - Joe Morgan, Dick Lally, Richard Lally
• Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro - Tim McCarver with Danny Peary
• Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball - George F. Will
• Official Rules of Major League Baseball 2011 -Major League Baseball (See how many are actually enforced!)
• The Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition) - Robert Kemp Adair