Because it's 11:30 and I'm up listening to this D-backs/Dodgers game, I thought I'd list the books I've read so far in my challenge to read 50 baseball books this year. I'm not on track for 50, but I could pick it up and still make it, I think.

1. jon miller: confessions of a baseball purist
   
2. alan schwarz: the numbers game
   
3. michael seidel: streak
   
4. eliot asinof: eight men out
   
5. lawrence ritter: the glory of their times
   
6. bette bao lord: in the year of the boar and jackie robinson
   
7. robert mayer: notes of a baseball dreamer
   
8. roger angell: five seasons
   
9. nicholas dawidoff: the catcher was a spy
   
10. david halberstam: summer of '49
    
11. bill gilbert: they also served
    
12. nick peters: tales from the giants dugout
    
13. david halberstam: october 1964
    
14. susan dellinger: red legs and black sox
    
15. steve fiffer: how to watch baseball
    
16. frank deford: the old ball game
    
17. howard bryant: juicing the game
    
18. louis masur: autumn glory
    
19. jean hastings ardell: breaking into baseball
    
20. buzz bissinger: three nights in august