- *The Professional* (1958) is an account of professional boxer Emile Griffith's career through June 1958, focusing on Griffith's bouts with Cuban Sugar Ray Robinson.
- *Run To Daylight!* (1962)
- *The Surgeon* (1967) is about baseball team owners.
- *The Top of the Hill: A Chronicle of One Baseball Season in Baltimore* (1972) (winner of the 1972 American Sportcasters Association book award; considered by some to be among the top half-dozen of all 75-or-so baseball season chronicles to that point)
- *The '53 Brooklyn Dodgers** (1975) describes that famous team at midcentury.
- *Waiting: The Dream That Wasn't: An Anatomy of Baseball's Reserve System 1959–1980*(1984)
Fiction
- *Death of a Legend and Other Short Stories* (1950) (collection)
- *The Professional** (1958) is a fictionalized portrayal of Émile Griffith.
- *Fight Card* (1968) (collection)
- *Baseball Diary* (1974)