Two imprints to cease publication

<a href=”http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.html”>Carroll & Graf and Thunder’s Mouth, both imprints of the Perseus Group, are </a><a href=”http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.html”>being phased out</a>, according to a story from the Publishers Weekly web site.

Both entities have produced admirable baseball titles. Earlier this year, C&G <a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=148,height=221,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0′); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/00_ruth104.gif”><img title=”00_ruth104″ height=”223″ alt=”00_ruth104″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/00_ruth104.gif” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>released The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs: Recrowning Baseball’s Greatest Slugger by Bill Jenkinson, an entertaining analysis of Ruth’s handiwork put in modern perspective.

When Hank Aaron was approaching Ruth’s lifetime mark of 714 home runs in 1974, it created a renewed interest in Ruth, who died in 1947. With Aaron still alive and kicking as Bonds approaches the 755 homers Hammerin’ Hank blasted, there’s not as much, but people still involke The Babe’s spirit.

<a href=”http://amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=&author=&select-author=field-author-like&title=&select-title=field-title&subject=baseball&select-subject=field-subject&field-publisher=Carroll+%26+Graf+&field-isbn=&node=&field-binding=&field-age=&field-language=&field-dateop=before&field-datemod=0&field-dateyear=2009&chooser-sort=rank%21%2Bsalesrank&mysubmitbutton1.x=43&mysubmitbutton1.y=7″>Older C&G titles include</a>:

<ul><li>Voices of Summer: Ranking Baseball’s 101 All-Time Best Announcers, by Curt Smith</li>

<li>Leonard Koppett’s Concise History of Major League Baseball (one of my favorites)</li>

<li>The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, by James Riley</li>

<li>Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza</li>

<li>Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Runyon on Baseball, by Jim Reisler</li>

<li>A Great Day in Cooperstown: The Improbable Birth of Baseball’s Hall of Fame, also by Reisler.</li></ul>

Thunder’s Mouth released only two baseball titles including Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball, by Dan Formosa and Paul Hamburger (2006); and The Player: Christy Mathewson, baseball, and the American Century, by Philip Seib (2004).