The 100 Best Baseball Books Ever Written

Baseball is the writer's game, and these indispensable books prove it. [View in Browser]( [Alternate text] [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [The 100 Best Baseball Books Ever Written]( [The 100 Best Baseball Books Ever Written]( There are more good books written about baseball than any other American team sport—and that’s not just because baseball has been around the longest. “This ain’t a football game,” manager Earl Weaver once said. “We do this every day.” Through baseball books, we’ve come to understand the game and its history. The sport is catnip for writers: a game of contemplation and strategy that lends itself beautifully to numbers and analysis as well as poetry. These are our picks for the 100 indispensable books no baseball fan should be without. [Read More]( [The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021]( [The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021]( The best releases of the year revealed something about who we are as a people, right now. [Read More]( [Turns Out, No One Close to the Real House of Gucci Likes 'House of Gucci']( [Turns Out, No One Close to the Real House of Gucci Likes 'House of Gucci']( "It was hard for me to see the humor and camp in something that was so bloody. In real life, none of it was camp." [Read More]( [Jacob Elordi Is Young and Restless and Longing for Home]( [Jacob Elordi Is Young and Restless and Longing for Home]( “I’m just burning sage," says Jacob Elordi as he takes a lighter to the business end of a smudge stick. His voice, transmitted over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles, is so deep that the words tend to blur together, as if this six-foot-five Aussie, in a baseball cap and a banana-yellow T-shirt, has been possessed by the spirit of Eeyore. Or it might just be how he's feeling today. "A little down in the dumps," he says. He dearly misses his family back in Australia: his brother and sister, both older, and "my best friends"—his parents. He's in production on season two of Euphoria, HBO's acid trip of a series that gives Gen Z the prestige treatment. "Work is the North Star. As long as I'm doing that, I'm good.” [Read More]( [45 Winning White Elephant Gifts That'll Cost You Less Than $25]( [45 Winning White Elephant Gifts That'll Cost You Less Than $25]( You can get the most fought-over contribution for cheap. [Read More]( [It's Your Last Chance to Get a Theragun On Sale for $200 Off]( [It's Your Last Chance to Get a Theragun On Sale for $200 Off]( Skip the moaning and groaning. Save on Therabody's massage guns and wave rollers instead. [Read More]( [What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?]( [What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?]( Regarded as perhaps the finest piece of sportswriting on record, the furious saga of Teddy Ballgame — from boy to man and near death — is an unmatchable remembrance for an American icon. [Read More]( [Win a Surf Adventure to Puerto Rico ($2,000 Value)!]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection]( esquire.com ©2021 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019