Spitball Magazine announces Casey Award nominees

November 7, 2011 · 4 comments

The editors of Spitball released their list of finalists for the 2011 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year:

  • The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach
  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game by John Thorn
  • The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs by Neal McCabe & Constance McCabe
  • Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game by Dan Barry
  • Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella by Neil Lanctot
  • Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway’s Remarkable First Year by Glenn Stout
  • The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957 by Dennis Snelling
  • The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932 by Thomas Aiello
  • 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente by Wilfred Santiago
  • 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports by Kostya Kennedy

For what it’s worth, my money’s on either Thorn, Stout, or Lanctot.

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1 Mark Aubrey November 7, 2011 at 11:26 am

They all sound good.  I’d like to read both the Thorn and the Aiello books.

2 Dennis Anderson November 8, 2011 at 12:52 pm

Jonah Keri’s book should have been on the list.

3 Anonymous November 8, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Agreed.

4 Anonymous November 8, 2011 at 12:59 pm

In fact, there are a few others I would have substituted for some of the titles, including Craig Robinson’s “Flip Flop Flyball.”

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