Classic Baseball Books Found on BookFinder.com Comparison Shopping Search Engine

Classic Baseball Books Found on BookFinder.com Comparison Shopping Search Engine

BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As the country gears up for the World Series, bibliophile sports fans are seeking out classic baseball books on comparison shopping search engine BookFinder.com.

Baseball lit favorites include eternal Nobel Prize contender Philip Roth's satire "The Great American Novel" (1973). Readers are also seeking out baseball-gone-Hollywood titles such as "Shoeless Joe" by W. P. Kinsella (1982), the basis for Field of Dreams; "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1956), the celebrated Henry Wiggen novel by Mark Harris (later adapted to the big screen in 1973); and "Baseball: An Illustrated History" by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, companion to the PBS series.

BookFinder.com's search engine helps smart shoppers find the best prices on the latest titles, like "100 Years of the World Series: 1903-2004" by Eric Enders (2007), or the always-giftable "2007 Official Rules of Major League Baseball".

Through its network of over 100,000 new and used booksellers, BookFinder.com makes it as easy to find used classic titles as the latest bestsellers. Long-time fans will enjoy Jim Bouton's insider memoir "Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues" (1970), honored as one of the New York Public Library's Books of the Twentieth Century, and the out-of-print "Late Innings: A Baseball Companion" by The New Yorker essayist Roger Angell (1982).

Other titles that help us understand the changing nature of the game include "The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It" edited by Lawrence S. Ritter (1966) and "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" by Michael Lewis (2004), the Freakonomics of the baseball set.

Since 1997, BookFinder.com has been one of the best ways to find and buy new, used, rare, and out-of-print books online. Readers can find exactly what they're looking for, thanks to the comparison shopping search engine's massive searchable inventory of books for sale. Indexing over 125 million books from a network of over 100,000 booksellers in 58 countries, BookFinder.com is the world's single largest searchable book inventory, online or off.

Additional baseball books and details on the aforementioned titles can be found at http://journal.bookfinder.com/

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