Take Me Out to the Bookstore

Publishers have sent me hundreds of baseball books for adults or children. Here are five in my Hall of Fame.

Franchise owner Bill Veeck with trailblazer Larry Doby / Major League Baseball

“You see a lot of penises in my line of work: short ones, stubby ones, hard ones, soft ones.”

Sportswriter Jane Leavy begins her novel Squeeze Play with that reference to her years in major league locker…