The Bay Area's COVID-19 "Shelter In Place" order has people turning to their bookshelves to fill the time they're spending at home. KCBS Radio Morning Sports Anchor Steve Bitker has been presenting occasional lists of favorite sports books.
Steve Bitker's List:
The Boys of Summer (Roger Kahn)
Ball Four (Jim Bouton)
The Long Season (Jim Brosnan)
Pennant Race (Jim Brosnan)
You Gotta Have Wa (Robert Whiting)
Wait 'Til Next Year (Doris Kearns-Goodwin)
Moneyball (Michael Lewis)
Love Me Hate Me (Jeff Pearlman)
Havana Heat (Dary Brock)
If I Never Get Back (Daryl Brock)
Stan Bunger's List:
Ball Four (Jim Bouton)
Veeck As In Wreck (Bill Veeck)
Thirty Tons a Day (Bill Veeck)
The Long Season (Jim Brosnan)
Pennant Race (Jim Brosnan)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop (Robert Coover)
Playing For Pizza (John Grisham)
Doug Sovern's List:
The Great American Novel (Philip Roth)
If I Never Get Back (Darryl Brock_
Summer of '49 (David Halberstam)
Run To Daylight (Vince Lombardi)
Instant Replay (Jerry Kramer)
When Pride Still Mattered (David Maraniss)
The Boys of Summer (Roger Kahn)
Ball Four (Jim Bouton)
Paper Lion (George Plimpton)
Levels Of the Game (John McPhee)
"Talking Baseball" Radio Host Marty Lurie's List:
The Glory of Their Times
The Boys of Summer
A Thinking Fan's Guide To Baseball
This Copyrighted Broadcast
Johnny U
Leo Durocher, Baseball's Prodigal Son
The Game Must Go On
The Empire Strikes Out
24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say-Hey Kid
The Original SF Giants
Oakland A's Play-By-Play Announcer Ken Korach's List:
The Way of Baseball—Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
The Sixth Man
The Teammates
The Last Pass
any Roger Angell baseball book
A Good Man—The Pete Newell Story
any Rick Reilly golf book
West by West
Moneyball
Wait til Next Year
San Francisco Chronicle National Baseball Writer John Shea's List:
The Boys of Summer
Ball Four
I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
The Science of Hitting
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
Eight Men Out
A Day In the Bleachers
Willie's Time: A Memoir
San Francisco Giants Announcer Jon Miller's List:
Sadaharu Oh—A Zen Way of Baseball
The Greatest Game Ever Pitched—Marichal, Spahn and The Duel of the Century
Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Bay Area Sportswriter and Author Joan Ryan's List:
The Summer Game (Angell)
This Old Man: All In Pieces (Angell)
Red Smith Reader
Open (Agassi)
Out of Their League (Meggyesy)
Wait 'Til Next Year (Kearns-Goodwin)
Raise the Roof (Summit)
Days of Grace (Ashe)
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (McDougall)
Kevin "The Rat" Radich's List:
Ball Four (J. Bouton)
The Boys of Summer (R. Kahn)
Paper Lion (G. Plimpton)
When Pride Still Mattered (D. Maraniss)
Clemente (D. Maraniss)
Pistol (M. Kriegel)
King of the World (D. Remnick)
Loose Balls (T. Pluto)
San Francisco Chronicle Sportswriter Bruce Jenkins' List:
The Boys in the Boat (D. J. Brown)
A Terrible Splendor (M. J. Fisher)
Any book by Dan Jenkins
Any book by S. L. Price
A Season Inside (J. Feinstein)
The Last Pass (G. Pomerantz)
Open (A. Agassi)
Second Wind (B. Russell)
Prolific Author Steve Kettmann's List:
Martina( G.Vescey)
Fever Pitch (Hornby)
Ball Four (Bouton)
Cactus League (Nemens)
Miracle of Castel di Sangro (McGinniss)
King of the World (Remnick)
Breaks of the Game (Halberstam)
Kiss the Sky: My Weekend in Monterey at the Greatest Concert Ever (D. Baker)
Born to Run (McDougall)
Game Time (Angell)
