What to Read After Ball Four
Readers who loved Ball Four by Jim Bouton keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Ball Four is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Ball Four
Moneyball
Eight Men Out
The new Bill James historical baseball abstract
October 1964
The Glory of Their Times
The summer game
Crazy '08
Summer of '49
A season on the brink
Luckiest Man
The Teammates
Joe DiMaggio
Paper Lion
Game of shadows
Clemente
The Yankee Years
The natural
Those guys have all the fun
When Pride Still Mattered
Juiced
The book of basketball
The Blind Side
The numbers game
The machine