Award Time

June 4, 2007

Three baseball titles have been nominated for the 2007 Quill Awards, founded by Reed Business Information (Publishers Weekly) to honor the “most entertaining and enlightening titles” each year. This year’s picks were published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, with the winners in 19 categories to be selected by a popular votes of a voting board comprised of over 6,000 invited booksellers and librarians.

The baseball books received three of the four nominations in the Sports category.

  • Ty and The Babe: Baseball’s Fiercest Rivals; A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship, by Tom Stanton (St.Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books)
  • Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History, by Cait Murphy (HarperCollins/Smithsonian Institution Press)
  • The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World, by Joshua Prager (Pantheon Books)
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