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baseball literary awards

Each year SABR’s Deadball Era Committee gives the Larry Ritter Award to the best new book related to the Deadball Era. The 2009 winner is Ron Selter for Ballparks of the Deadball Era. The three other finalists for the award: Rick Huhn for Eddie Collins, Tom Swift for Chief Bender’s Burden, and Michael Lynch for […]

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* Simply the best

December 2, 2008

Spitball Magazine just announced the finalists for the 2008 CASEY Award, Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies, by William Kashatus (University of Pennsylvania Press) Neil Leifer: Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, by Neil Leifer (Taschen) (See here for samples.) Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take […]

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