New baseball biography books 2015

In a 1992 essay for the New York Times, George Plimpton wrote that “there are superb books about golf, very good books about baseball, not many good books about football or soccer, very few good books about basketball, and no good books at all about beach balls.” The essay was titled “The Smaller the Ball, the Better the Book: A Game Theory of Literature,” and sports publishers have made a similar correlation to book sales.

“The smaller the ball, the better the sales,” says Bill Wolfsthal, v-p, executive director of sales and marketing at Skyhorse.

“Baseball books and golf books always sold best.”

Spring inevitably means a new roster of baseball books, including some high-profile memoirs and biographies, and new takes on baseball history. Golf and other major sports also come into play, but with a smaller number of releases.

There are also a few curveballs this