{"id":1608,"date":"2008-12-23T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2009-10-18T20:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T19:52:14","slug":"book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Book recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitors will know that we here at <em>BaseballGB <\/em>are avid baseball book readers and keen baseball book reviewers.\u00c2\u00a0 Our reviews can all be found by clicking on the &#8216;book reviews&#8217; category, but we thought it would be useful to put together a list of some essential purchases, either to help a newcomer\u00c2\u00a0start up their baseball library or to help established fans fill in any gaps in their collection.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve limited this to a cross-section of ten books covering both old and modern classics, biographies and areas of special interest (stats, fantasy baseball and British baseball).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The list can be found by clicking on &#8216;Essential Baseball Books&#8217; in the\u00c2\u00a0navigation bar.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got any suggestions of essential books for a British baseball fan not covered in this original selection of ten, please feel free to put forward your case in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitors will know that we here at BaseballGB are avid baseball book readers and keen baseball book reviewers.\u00c2\u00a0 Our reviews can all be found by clicking on the &#8216;book reviews&#8217; category, but we thought it would be useful to put together a list of some essential purchases, either to help a newcomer\u00c2\u00a0start up their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-books","category-site-info","tag-book-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}