Bill Madden Books in Order
Bill Madden has written 9 books, published between 1998 and 2025. The first book is Yogi Berra: An American Original (1998) and the newest is Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1998–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,449 in 7 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 41–61 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,449 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Bill Madden, born 1946, is an American sportswriter formerly of the New York Daily News and a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Madden sat on the Baseball Hall of Fame's Historical Overview Committee in 2005, 2007 and 2008, helping set the final ballots put to the Veterans Committee. Nine books are catalogued, from Yogi Berra: An American Original (1998) to a 2025 memoir of the Yankees beat, and they include Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball (2010) and Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life (2020). Subjects record the New York Yankees, baseball biography and sports journalism.
How many Bill Madden books are there?
Bill Madden has 9 books, released between 1998 and 2025.
Bill Madden Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Bill Madden books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Yogi Berra: An American Original1998 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/419982171/4
- 2Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee2003 · 453 pages · confirmed 1/420034531/4
- 3Bill Madden: My 25 Years Covering Baseball's Heroes, Scoundrels, Triumphs and Tragedies2004 · 328 pages · confirmed 1/420043281/4
- 4Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball2010 · 457 pages · confirmed 1/420104571/4
- 5Damned Yankees: Chaos, Confusion, and Craziness in the Steinbrenner Era2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 61954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever2014 · 290 pages · confirmed 1/420142901/4
- 7Lou2018 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420183521/4
- 8Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420203521/4
- 9Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Bill Madden books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
9 books9 Bill Madden titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Bill Madden books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 9 Bill Madden books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Bill Madden
Start with Yogi Berra: An American Original (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Bill Madden book?
Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir (2025) is the newest Bill Madden book released so far.
Is there a new Bill Madden book coming?
No next Bill Madden book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Bill Madden at a glance
- Still publishing
- Bill Madden published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Bill Madden books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 2,449 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 352 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Bill Madden books, 4 of 9, were published in the 2010s.
What the Bill Madden books are about
7 of the 9 Bill Madden books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 5 of 7 books
- Baseball, biography 4 of 7 books
- Biography 4 of 7 books
- New York Yankees (Baseball team) 4 of 7 books
- Baseball 2 of 7 books
- Baseball players 2 of 7 books
- Baseball team owners 2 of 7 books
- SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History 2 of 7 books