WILD PITCH BOOK LISTThe following books were used as reference in the writing of Wilde Pitch and are recommended reading should you wish to learn more.
Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
Black Diamond Kings: Heroes of Negro League Baseball (Sports Royalty)
Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues: Revised Edition (Dover Baseball)
Black Writers/Black Baseball: An Anthology of Articles from Black Sportswriters Who Covered the Negro Leagues, rev. ed.
The Essential Basho
Rookwood: The Rediscovery and Revival of an American Icon--An Illustrated History
Bright Galaxies Dark Matters
Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
The Book of Joe
Try Not to Suck: The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
The Illustrated Walt Whitman
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology (The Library of America, 233)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Asking: New and Selected Poems
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
AGAINST BREAKING: On the Power of Poetry
Dog Show
The Hill We Climb
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson
The Ink Dark Moon
Why Poetry
Cloud Runner
The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku
The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir
Meet Me in the Garden: A Novel
Sidelined: Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
The Magical Game
Mindfulness in Plain English: Revised and Expanded Edition
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-five Paintings to Change the Way You Live
Real Happiness