The August 1, 2009 edition of the Wall Street Journal listed the "Five Best" books that excel as portraits of baseball as a business. The list was compiled by Richard J. Tofel, an author and investigative journalist. His "Five Best" are:
As They See ‘Em, by Bruce Weber, Scribner, 2009
Past Time, by Jules Tygiel, Oxford, 2000
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, Norton, 2003
My Fifty Years in Baseball, by Ed Barrow, Coward-McCann, 1951
The Lords of the Realm, by John Helyar, Villard, 1994