Good morning and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m novelist and punk historian Jim Ruland, and this week we’re celebrating America’s pastime. We’re currently midway through the MLB ...

As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...

In his tenth Major League Baseball season with the Washington Nationals, veteran first baseman Josh Bell is stepping into a brand new spotlight–this time as a published children’s author. Partnering ...

To borrow a baseball term of art (okay, a cliché), Jane Leavy is an elite spitballer. No one is better built than Leavy, a crafty veteran sportswriter, for between-innings repartee, wry asides, and ...

The best baseball books are rarely just about baseball. They are about fathers and sons, certainly. About memory and time and ambition and failure. About cities losing themselves and reinventing ...

Every St. Louisan remembers their first Cardinals game. If you’re lucky enough to have grown up in Cardinals Nation, then certain staples—Fredbird, iconic red hats, the stadium’s electric energy—are ...