See previous entry.
I am reproducing the Herculean effort of our friend Greg Spira of 2009 titles, as posted on the SABR list-serve today. There are almost 140 titles here (see his caveats) so you will all forgive me if I don’t follow my usual formatting style. The only knock is that he does not list publishers, although he does include the ISBNs.
When examining a list like this, I can’t help but to think back to my childhood days, opening packs of Topps cards with my buddies, looking over the checklists and offering the refrain, “Got it, need it, got it, got it….” Do kids still do that, or do they leave it up to their financial advisers?
A list of new baseball books that have been released since October.
Not including instructionals, fiction, activity books, kids books,
books with library binding, religious books, audio books, or annuals.
Does not include new editions of recent books unless there is
substantial new material. Includes reprints if books have not been
published in last ten years. This data from Books in Print always has
lots of mistakes in the authors listings, so don’t blame me for those
mistakes.
Greg Spira
Hardcovers
After Many a Summer : The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a
Golden Age in New York Baseball (Hardcover) by Robert Murphy
ISBN 9781402760686
Fenway Park : A Ballpark Pop-Up Book (Hardcover) by Major League Baseball
ISBN 9780789399533
Bert Sugar’s Baseball Hall of Fame : A Living History of America’s
Greatest Game (Hardcover) by Bert Sugar
ISBN 9780762430246
Boston Red Sox and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover) by Mark Rucker
ISBN 9780760335062
Shea Good-Bye : The Untold Inside Story of the Historic 2008 Season
(Hardcover) by Keith Hernandez, Matthew Silverman
ISBN 9781600781704
Sweet Spot : 125 Years of Baseball and the Louisville Slugger
(Hardcover) by David Magee, Philip Shirley, Ken Griffey
ISBN 9781600781766
Dodgers Past & Present (Hardcover) by Steven Travers
ISBN 9780760335277
New York Yankees and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover) by Derek Gentile
ISBN 9780760331941
The Baltimore Elite Giants : Sport and Society in the Age of Negro
League Baseball (Hardcover) by Bob Luke
ISBN 9780801891168
Fergie : My Life from the Cubs to Cooperstown (Hardcover) by Fergie
Jenkins, Lew Freedman, Billy Williams
ISBN 9781600781711
Take Me Out to the Ball Game : The Story of the Sensational Baseball
Song (Hardcover) by Amy Whorf McGuiggan ISBN 9780803218918
Safe at Home : Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic (Hardcover) by
Alyssa Milano, Joe Torre
ISBN 9780061625107
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball : The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom,
and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime (Hardcover) by Paul
Dickson
ISBN 9780061561054
The Baseball Talmud : The Definitive Position-By-Position Ranking of
Baseball’s Chosen Players (Hardcover) by Howard Megdal
ISBN 9780061558436
Faith and Fear in Flushing : An Intense Personal History of the New
York Mets (Hardcover) by Greg W. Prince, Jason Fry
ISBN 9781602396814
The Rocket That Fell to Earth : Roger Clemens and the Rage for
Baseball Immortality (Hardcover) by Jeff Pearlman
ISBN 9780061724756
78 : The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City
(Hardcover) by Bill Reynolds
ISBN 9780451226020
The Complete Game : Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the
Mound (Hardcover) by Ron Darling, Daniel Paisner
ISBN 9780307269843
The Fifth Season : Tales of My Life in Baseball (Hardcover) by Donald Honig
ISBN 9781566638104
Worth the Wait : Tales of the 2008 Phillies (Hardcover) by Jayson Stark
ISBN 9781600782732
Yogi Berra : Eternal Yankee (Hardcover) by Allen Barra
ISBN 9780393062335
Living the Dream : An Inside Account of the 2008 Cubs Season
(Hardcover) by Jim Mcardle
ISBN 9781600781582
Tigers Confidential : The Untold Inside Story of the 2008 Season
(Hardcover) by Andy van Slyke, Jim Hawkins
ISBN 9781600781681
Few and Chosen : Defining Mets Greatness Across the Eras (Hardcover)
by Rusty Staub, Phil Pepe
ISBN 9781600781537
Forever Blue : The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most
Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
(Hardcover) by Michael D’Antonio
ISBN 9781594488566
The 1969 Miracle Mets : The Improbable Story of the World’s Greatest
Underdog Team (Hardcover) by Steven Travers, Bud Harrelson
ISBN 9781599214108
Jerry Remy’s Red Sox Heroes : The RemDawg’s All-Time Favorite Red Sox,
Great Moments, and Top Teams (Hardcover) by Jerry Remy, Corey Sandler
ISBN 9781599214061
As They See ’em : A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires (Hardcover)
by Bruce Weber
ISBN 9780743294119
High-Flying Birds : The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals (Hardcover) by
Jerome M. Mileur
ISBN 9780826218346
Stolen Bases : Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball (Hardcover) by
Jennifer Ring
ISBN 978025203282
The Integration of Major League Baseball : A Team by Team History
(Hardcover) by Rick Swaine
ISBN 9780786439034
Catcher : How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
(Hardcover) by Peter Morris
ISBN 9781566638227
Bob Feller’s Little Blue Book of Baseball Wisdom (Hardcover) by Bob
Feller, Burton Rocks, Ralph Kiner
ISBN 9781600782190
“Yogi Was Up with a Guy on Third…” : Hall of Famers Recall Their
Favorite Baseball Games Ever (Hardcover) by Maureen Mullen, Luis
Tiant
ISBN 9781600781629
It Was Never about the Babe : The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and
the Curse of the Bambino (Hardcover) by Jerry M. Gutlon
ISBN 9781602393493
For the Love of the Mets : An A-To-Z Primer for Mets Fans of All Ages
(Hardcover) by Frederick C. Klein, Mark Anderson, Rusty Staub
ISBN 9781600782046
Under the March Sun : The Story of Spring Training (Hardcover) by
Charles Fountain
ISBN 9780195372038
Splitters, Squeezes, and Steals : The Inside Story of Baseball’s
Greatest Techniques, Strategies, and Plays (Hardcover) by Derek
Gentile
ISBN 9781579127886
Citi Field : The Mets’ New World-Class Ballpark: A Ballpark Pop-Up
Book (Hardcover) by Universe Publishing, David Hawcock
ISBN 9780789399564
Yesterday & Today : Cleveland Indians (Hardcover) by Weber Lou
ISBN 9781412797306
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Hardcover) by Paul Dickson, Skip McAfee
ISBN 9780393066814
101 Reasons to Love the Tigers (Hardcover) by David Green
ISBN 9781584797562
Yankee Colors : The Glory Years of the Mantle Era (Hardcover) by
Marvin E. Newman, Christopher Sweet, Al Silverman, Yogi Berra
ISBN 9780810996380
Odd Man Out : A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit
(Hardcover) by Matthew Mccarthy
ISBN 9780670020706
Confessions of a She-Fan : The Course of True Love with the New York
Yankees (Hardcover) by Jane Heller
ISBN 9781594868986
Baseball and the Baby Boomer : A History, Commentary, and Memoir
(Hardcover) by Talmage Boston, Frank Deford, Lou Brock
ISBN 9781933979267
Bases Loaded : The Inside Story of the Steroid Era in Baseball by the
Central Figure in the Mitchell Report (Hardcover) by Kirk Radomski
ISBN 9781594630569
Philadelphia Athletics by the Numbers (Hardcover) by Ted Taylor
ISBN 9781436395311
Death at the Ballpark : A Comprehensive Study of Game-Related
Fatalities of Players 1862-2007 (Hardcover) by Robert M. Gorman,
David Weeks
ISBN 9780786434350
101 Reasons to Love the Phillies (Hardcover) by Ron Green, Jr.
ISBN 9781584797555
The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs : The History of an Outlaw Major
League, 1914-1915 (Hardcover) by Robert Peyton Wiggins
ISBN 9780786438358
Ballparks of the Deadball Era : A Comprehensive Study of Their
Dimensions, Configurations and Effects on Batting, 1901-1919
(Hardcover) by Ronald M. Selter, Philip J. Lowry
ISBN 9780786435616
Phillies Confidential : The Untold Inside Story of the 2008
Championship Season (Hardcover) by Gary Matthews, Scott Lauber
ISBN 9781600782022
When Baseball Went to War [With CD] (Hardcover) by Todd Anton, Bill Nowlin
ISBN 9781600781261
The History of Baseball Equipment : More Than a Century of Balls,
Bats, Gloves, and Gear (Hardcover) by Jack R. Nerad
ISBN 9781599213927
The Quality of Home Runs : The Passion, Politics, and Language of
Cuban Baseball (Hardcover) by Thomas F. Carter
ISBN 9780822342533
The Postwar Yankees : Baseball’s Golden Age Revisited (Hardcover) by
David G. Surdam
ISBN 9780803217898
Champions : A Look Back at the Phillies Triumphant 2008 Season
(Hardcover) by The Staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer
ISBN 9781933822198
The Yankee Years (Hardcover) by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
ISBN 9780385527408
Alexander Cartwright : The Life Behind the Baseball Legend (Hardcover)
by Monica Nucciarone, John Thorn
ISBN 9780803233539
Straw : Finding My Way (Hardcover) by Darryl Strawberry
ISBN 9780061704208
Chasing Moonlight (Hardcover) by Brett Friedlander, Robert Reising, Bobby Brown
ISBN 9780895873699
George : The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire
(Hardcover) by Peter Golenbock
ISBN 9780470392195
Sweet Lou : Lou Piniella: A Life in Baseball (Hardcover) by Melissa Isaacson
ISBN 9781600782015
Yogi Berra : Eternal Yankee (Hardcover) by Allen Barra
ISBN 9780393062335
Forever Blue : The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most
Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
(Hardcover) by Michael D’Antonio
ISBN 9781594488566
Becoming Manny : Inside the Life of Baseball’s Most Enigmatic Slugger
(Hardcover) by Jean Rhodes, Shawn Boburg
ISBN 9781416577065
Tony La Russa : Man on a Mission (Hardcover) by Rob Rains
ISBN 9781600781698
The Corporal Was a Pitcher : The Courage of Lou Brissie (Hardcover)
by Ira Berkow
ISBN 9781600781049
The Yankee Years (Hardcover) by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
ISBN 9780385527408
Beyond Belief : Finding the Strength to Come Back (Hardcover) by Josh
Hamilton, Tim Keown
ISBN 9781599951614
Paperbacks
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (Paperback)
by William M. Simons
ISBN 9780786435692
The Irish in Baseball : An Early History (Paperback) by David L. Fleitz
ISBN 9780786434190
Name That Ballplayer: The Ultimate Baseball “Whodunnit?” Quiz Book (Paperback)
by Wayne Stewart
ISBN 9781602393196
Lefty, Double-X, and the Kid : The 1939 Red Sox, a Team in Transition
(Paperback) by Bill Nowlin
ISBN 9781579401627
Classic Tribe : The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Indians History
(Paperback) by Jonathan Knight
ISBN 9781606350171
Baseball’s Offensive Greats of the Deadball Era : Best Producers Rated
by Position, 1901-1919 (Paperback) by Robert E. Kelly, Leonard Levin
ISBN 9780786441259
100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Paperback)
by Jon Weisman, Peter O’Malley
ISBN 9781600781667
100 Things Tigers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Paperback)
by Terry Foster
ISBN 9781600781773
100 Things Rockies Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (Paperback)
by Adrian Dater
ISBN 9781600781612
Full Count : The Book of Mets Poetry (Paperback) by Frank Messina
ISBN 9781599215570
Minor League Mom : A Mother’s Journey Through the Red Sox Farm Teams
(Paperback) by Pamela Carey
ISBN 9781891724176
Going, Going … Caught! : Baseball’s Great Outfield Catches as
Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964 (Paperback) by Jason
Aronoff, Dave Anderson
ISBN 9780786441136
Red Sox University : Baseball’s Foremost Institution of Higher
Learning (Paperback) by Andy Wasif
ISBN 9781600782183
Phillies Journal 1888-2008 : history of Baseball Phillies in Prose and
Limerick (Paperback) by Max Blue
ISBN 9781608601905
Root for the Cubs : Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs (Paperback)
by Roger Snell
ISBN 9781893239951
The Barling Darling : Hal Smith in American Baseball (Paperback) by
Billy D. Higgins
ISBN 9781935106098
A Magic Summer : The Amazin’ Story of the 1969 New York Mets
(Paperback – Anniv. Ed.) by Stanley Cohen
ISBN 9781602396791
The Ultimate Red Sox Home Run GuideThe Ultimate Red Sox Home Run Guide
(Paperback) by Bill Nowlin, David Vincent
ISBN 9781579401634
Cardinals Journal : Year by Year and Day by Day with the St. Louis
Cardinals Since 1882 (Paperback) by John Snyder
ISBN 9781578603381
The Psycho 100 : Baseball’s Most Outrageous Moments (Paperback) by
Steve Lyons, Burton Rocks
ISBN 9781600781674
The Early Polo Grounds (Paperback) by Chris Epting, Arnold Hano
ISBN 9780738562872
Theology : How a Boy Wonder Led the Red Sox to the Promised Land
(Paperback) by John Frascella
ISBN 9780981453699
Dodgers Journal : Year by Year & Day by Day with the Brooklyn & Los
Angeles Dodgers Since 1884 (Paperback) by John Snyder
ISBN 9781578603336
Milwaukee Braves : Heroes and Heartbreak (Paperback) by William
Povletich, Del Crandall
ISBN 9780870204234
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Chicago White Sox : Heart-Pounding,
Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Chicago White Sox History
(Paperback) by Mark Gonzales
ISBN 9781600782039 /
The Philadelphia Phillies (Paperback) by Frederick G. Lieb
ISBN 9781606350126
Behind the Green Monster : Red Sox Myths, Legends, and Lore
(Paperback) by Bill Ballou, Peter Golenbock
ISBN 9781600781919
The Truth about Ruth : Yankees Myths, Legends, and Lore (Paperback)
by Peter Handrinos
ISBN 9781600781926
Sweet Lou and the Cubs : A Year Inside the Dugout (Paperback) by George Castle
ISBN 9781599215266
Cubs by the Numbers : A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by
Uniform Number (Paperback) by Al Yellon, Kasey Ignarski, Matthew
Silverman, Pat Hughes
ISBN 9781602393721
White Sox Journal : Year by Year & Day by Day with the Chicago White
Sox Since 1901 (Paperback) by John Snyder
ISBN 9781578603411
365 Oddball Days in Chicago Cubs History (Paperback) by John Snyder
ISBN 9781578603435
Rollie’s Follies : A Hall of Fame Revue of Baseball Stories and STATS,
Lists and Lore (Paperback) by Rollie Fingers, Yellowstone Ritter
ISBN 9781578603350
365 Oddball Days in Boston Red Sox History (Paperback) by John Snyder
ISBN 9781578603442
The Fielding Bible–Volume II (Paperback – Revised Ed.) by John Dewan
ISBN 9780879463717
Home Run’s Most Wanted : The Top 10 Book of Monumental Dingers,
Prodigious Swingers, and Everything Long-Ball (Paperback) by David
Vincent
ISBN 9781597971928
The Major League Pennant Races of 1916 : The Most Maddening Baseball
Melee in History (Paperback) by Paul G. Zinn, John G. Zinn
ISBN 9780786436309
Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators : The Last Winning
Season (Paperback) by Ted Leavengood
ISBN 9780786441365
No Girls in the Clubhouse : The Exclusion of Women from Baseball
(Paperback) by Marilyn Cohen
ISBN 9780786440184
Coming Back with the Spitball : A Pitcher’s Romance (1914) (Paperback)
by James Hopper
ISBN 9781104085391
From Sugar to Diamonds : Spanish/Mexican Baseball 1925-1969: Stories
of the Greeley Grays and the Teams That Dared to Challenge Them
(Paperback) by L. And Gab Jody L. and Gabriel a. Lopez
ISBN 9781438952529
Go-Go to Glory : The 1959 Chicago White Sox (Paperback) by Don
Zminda, R. J. Lesch, Len Levin
ISBN 9780879463861
The 1976 Cincinnati Reds : Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine
(Paperback) by Doug Feldmann
ISBN 9780786438549
Boston Baseball (Paperback) by James Lantos, Applewood Books
ISBN 9781429097048
Philadelphia Athletics by the Numbers (Paperback) by Ted Taylor
ISBN 9781436395304
Jack Coombs : A Life in Baseball (Paperback) by John P. Tierney
ISBN 9780786439591
30 : Major League Baseballs Year of the Batter (Paperback) by Ray Zardetto
ISBN 9780786436668
Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck : Major League Baseball
in 1945 (Paperback) by James D. Szalontai
ISBN 9780786437948
Ball, Bat and Bitumen : A History of Coalfield Baseball in the
Appalachian South (Paperback) by L. M. Sutter
ISBN 9780786435944
All-Stars for All Time : A Sabermetric Ranking of the Major League
Best, 1876-2007 (Paperback) by William F. McNeil
ISBN 9780786435005
The Red Sox World Series Encyclopedia (Paperback) by Bill Nowlin, Jim Prime
ISBN 9781579401610
Baseball in Palau : Passion for the Game from 1925-2007 (Paperback)
by Donald Shuster
ISBN 9789829802019
Boston Baseball (Paperback) by James Lantos, Applewood Books
ISBN 9781429097048
Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball : How the Remaking of
Youth Scouting Affects the National Pastime (Paperback) by Les
Edgerton, Wally Lubanski
ISBN 9780786434084
The Complete Guide to Spring Training : Warm Breezes, Blue Skies, and
Cold Beer : Getting the Most from You Baseball Spring Training
Experience (Paperback) by Kevin Reichard
ISBN 9780975270660
The Billy Goat Curse : Losing and Superstition in Cubs Baseball Since
World War II (Paperback) by Gil Bogen, Ernie Banks
ISBN 9780786433544
Phantastic! : The 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies (Paperback
– Special Ed.) by Fran Zumnuich, AP Images, Joe Funk, Jason Hinman
ISBN 9781600782503
Blue Mondays : The Long Goodbye of the Montreal Expos (Paperback) by
Jeff Stuart
ISBN 9781604742954
Northsiders : Essays on the History and Culture of the Chicago Cubs
(Paperback) by Gerald C. Wood, Andrew Hazucha
ISBN 9780786436231
So Long, Shea : Five Decades of Stadium Memories (Paperback) by Joe Funk
ISBN 9781600782435
Spahn, Sain, and Teddy Ballgame : Boston’s (Almost) Perfect Baseball
Summer of 1948 (Paperback) by Bill Nowlin
ISBN 9781579401603
Christy Mathewson : A Game-By-Game Profile of a Legendary Pitcher
(Paperback) by Ronald A. Mayer
ISBN 9780786441211
The Baseball Novel : A History and Annotated Bibliography of Adult
Fiction (Paperback) by Noel Schraufnagel
ISBN 9780786435579
The California Winter League : Americas First Integrated Professional
Baseball League (Paperback) by William F. Mcniel
ISBN 9780786438815
The Men That Cooperstown Forgot (Paperback) by Carl E. Watts
ISBN 9781605635989
This Is the Year : The Historic 2008 Chicago Cubs (Paperback) by
Chicago Tribune
ISBN 9781600782428
The Quality of Home Runs : The Passion, Politics, and Language of
Cuban Baseball (Paperback) by Thomas F. Carter
ISBN 9780822342762
Charlie Gehringer : A Biography of the Hall of Fame Tigers Second
Baseman (Paperback) by John C. Skipper
ISBN 9780786435746
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