Sports Culture Connection

Sports Books

Baseball Biographies:
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
Pride and Pinstripes: The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life’s Challenges by Mel Stottlemyre
Ty and The Babe: Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship

Notable:
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition (ESPN Pro Baseball Encyclopedia)
Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
 

Sports Humor

Sports Pickle
Baseball Anecdotes
Baseball Humor
Golf Humor
 

Sports Poetry

Baseball Poetry
Casey At The Bat