There are so many different types of "baseball books", that it's hard to list favorites for me. There are those where baseball is simply a backdrop, those that are fictional accounts, those that are historical analysis, true biographies and then those that are simply a collection of anecdotes. Of those that truly changed the way I thought about the subject, Ball Four has to be at the top of the list. One that is just a collection of funny stories is Bob Uecker's Catcher In The Wry. It's not on the same level as Ball Four, but Uecker is one funny man.