Dover Publications, under the direction of contributing editor Paul Dickson, has just begun a series of classic books on sports with an emphasis on baseball titles, which are running about 3:1 over other sports.
The line will be varied to include fiction but its early emphasis is on autobiography and oral history. Connie Mack’s My 66 Years in the Big League, with a new introduction by Rich Westcott, was published in April and Ty Cobb’s My Twenty Years in Baseball, with a new introduction by Dickson has just been published. It was edited by Ron Cobb (no relation to the Hall of Famer). Forthcoming titles this year include Larry Moffi’s This Side of Cooperstown. In 2010, Dover will re-issue Bill Mead’s Even the Browns, John B Holway’s Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues , and a re-discovered Babe Ruth autobiography that was serialized in 1920. The Ruth book will be edited by Ron Cobb who found the original newspaper series.
In addition, Dover recently came to an agreement with Peter Golenbock to re-publish and re-illustrate Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Dynasty—The New York Yankees 1949-1964.
More titles are under consideration at this moment and Dover is looking for other nominations of high-quality works to reprint in both baseball and other sports. Dickson would love to hear directly from others with ideas for the series and can be reached through his webpage: pauldicksonbooks.com. His mailing address for anyone wanted to submit a book or manuscript is P.O.Box 280, Garrett Park, MD 20896.
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