Now Pitching Bob Feller (1990) Bob Feller with Bill Gilbert

 This is the autobiography of the great Bob Feller, rocket arm pitcher from the 1930's to 1950's.  He looks back on his life many years after his career ends and reflects on the game then, changes, and the game at the time he wrote. You would say he is one of those Greatest Generation guys. It's a good read.

Clemente: The Grace and Passion of Baseball's Last Hero (2006) by David Maraniss

This is a biography of the great Pirate by David Maraniss, the same author who wrote the biography of Presidents Obama and Clinton.  As in the other ones, you get a good feel for the times in which Clemente lived.  Also the circumstances of the plane crash are interesting.  There's more to it than just the plane went down.  This is a good read.

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer (1989)

 It took me about 6 mos to polish off this one, it was the major reading accomplishment of 2021.  The author talks about the 4 different groups of British settlers in the American colonies- Puritans, Virginians, Quakers and Borderers/ Scots Irish- and their impact on the development of the US all the way to the present.  I permanently changed the way I think about US history.