Baseball is a Funny Game (1960)

Because Garagiola wrote this book at the end of the 1950s, many of the players and officials he mentions will not be as familiar to readers not well versed in baseball history. Moreover, some key rules have changed over the years so that some of the discussions of how the game is played are now irrelevant. Even so, Garagiola is a good story teller and explains things clearly. For example, his discussion of signals and how they work is the best I have read anywhere. ( )