There are more good books written about baseball than any other ... The definitive portrait of Hank Aaron, one of the greatest ballplayers ever, most famous for setting the all-time home run ...

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so when NPR comes along and declares 100 books the "Best-Ever" and leaves nearly every single young adult title written about people of color off the list without caveat or mention, damage is done.

And it's remarkably good; arguably the first and even best in the now-not-so-new wave ... "one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete." ...