Great Baseball Books

Baseball: The Golden Age
Seymour, Harold
New York, Oxford, 1989 (orig. 1971)

This history begins in 1903 and continues until 1930. Seymour passed away before he could write his book that would have taken baseball into more recent times. He did two other fine work, Baseball: The Early Years and Baseball: The People's Game. The latter covers non-professional baseball.