BASEBALL
HISTORY AND SPIRIT
Oral Histories
"Baseball is a game in which the line between myth and reality is constantly blurred. The devotees of and participants in the most American of all sports delight in creating stories whose truth is often difficult to unravel: Abner Doubleday's invention of baseball, Pete Alexander's celebrated hangover in the 1926 World Series, Babe Ruth's 'called shot' home run against the Cubs in 1932."
- Society for American Baseball Research, Oral History
- Blake, Mike. Baseball Chronicles: An Oral History of Baseball Through the Decades: September 17, 1911 to October 24, 1992
Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Book, 1997
- Cataneo, David. Hornsby Hit One Over My Head: A Fans' Oral History of Baseball
San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1997
- Hurd, Jay. Baseball - Memories and Reflections: 3 Taped Interviews
Boston: Simmons College Oral History Archives, 1998
- Kelley, Brent. Voices from the Negro Leagues
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1998
- Moffi, Larry. This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s
Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1996
- Murdoch, Eugene. Baseball Players and Their Times: Oral Histories of the Game, 1920-1990 (Baseball and American Society)
Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991
- Ritter. Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
New York, New York: William Morrow and Complany, Inc., 1984
- Rust, Art Jr. Get That Nigger Off the Field: An Oral History of Black Ballplayers from the Negro Leagues to the Present
New York, New York: Delacorte Press, 1976
- Smith, Curt. The Storytellers
New York, New York: MacMillan, 1995