Baseball Resources at the Library of Congress

Bibliography

The following selected bibliography of baseball titles will expand over upcoming weeks to reflect additional areas of baseball history.

Reference

Benson, Michael. Ballparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Reference to Baseball Grounds, Yards, and Stadiums, 1845 to Present. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1989. [catalog record]

Dickson, Paul. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2009. [catalog record]

Lowry, Philip J. Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All 271 Major League and Negro League Ballparks Past and Present. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1992. [catalog record]

Major League Baseball. The Baseball Encyclopedia. New York, N.Y: Macmillan, 1969. [catalog record]

Nemec, David. The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball. 2nd ed. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, 2006. [catalog record]

Okkonen, Marc. Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century: The Official Major League Baseball Guide. New York, N.Y: Sterling Pub. Co, 1991. [catalog record]

Shannon, Bill. The Ballparks. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975. [catalog record]

Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards. United States: Krause Publications, 1988. [catalog record]

Biographies

Alexander, Charles C. Ty Cobb. Dallas, Tex: Southern Methodist University Press, 2006. [catalog record]

Creamer, Robert W. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. 1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. [catalog record]

Lowenfish, Lee. Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. [catalog record]

Snyder, Brad. A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports. New York: Viking, 2006. [catalog record]

Veeck, Bill. Veeck as in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. [catalog record]

Negro Leagues

Peterson, Robert. Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams. New York: Gramercy Books, 1999. [catalog record]

White, Sol. Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball, with Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. [catalog record]

Oral Histories

Black Diamonds: Life in the Negro Leagues from the Men Who Lived It. New York, NY: Stadium Books, 1991. [catalog record]

Holway, John. Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues. 1st ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. [catalog record]

Ritter, Lawrence S. The Image of Their Greatness: An Illustrated History of Baseball from 1900 to the Present. 3rd ed. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1992. [catalog record]

The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. New enl. ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1984. [catalog record]

Vincent, Fay. The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. [catalog record]

---. We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved. 1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. [catalog record]