SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. Ritter was the author/editor of The Glory of Their Times, a seminal book of baseball oral history.
The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era (McFarland).
The three other Finalists for the award: Rick Huhn for Eddie Collins (McFarland), Tom Swift for Chief Bender’s Burden (University of Nebraska Press), and Michael Lynch for Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson, and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League (McFarland).
The award will be presented at the DEC meeting in Washington DC.
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