Amid all the announcements of the usual post-season awards — and kudos to all those winners — we should not forget that there are some other heavy hitters out there who deserve to be recognized.
Spitball Magazine just announced the finalists for the estimable Casey Award, given for the best baseball book of the year. They include:
- The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
- The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues by Lonnie Wheeler
- The Bronx Zoom: Inside the New York Yankees’ Most Bizarre Season by Bryan Hoch
- Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing by Andy Martino
- Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood by Dave Parker and Dave Jordan
- Escape from Castro’s Cuba by Tim Wendell
- Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham by Steven Treder
- Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball by Dan Taylor
- Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin (Flatiron Books).
“We don’t envy the judges who must determine which of the nine makes the ‘greatest’ contribution, and we are grateful for their service, “Shannon said in a press release. “We also congratulate all nine authors and their publishers, and wish each the best of luck in the competition.
“Finally, we thank all the publishers who participated in the 39th annual CASEY Award competition by sending in review copies of the baseball books they published in 2021, and we congratulate the all the authors whose name appeared on a new baseball book in 2021.”
The 39th annual CASEY Awards ceremony will take place in early March 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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