Casey Award
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The Casey Award has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983. The award was begun by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine.
Casey Award recipients
- 1983 – Eric Rolfe Greenberg, for The Celebrant
- 1984 – Peter Golenbock, for Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
- 1985 – Roger Kahn, for Good Enough to Dream
- 1986 – Bill James, for The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
- 1987 – Peter H. Gordon, for Diamonds Are Forever
- 1988 – John Holway, for Blackball Stars
- 1989 – Mike Sowell, for The Pitch That Killed
- 1990 – Harold Seymour, for Baseball: The People’s Game
- 1991 – Bruce Kuklick, for To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976
- 1992 – Phil S. Dixon, for The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History[1]
- 1993 – Michael Gershman, for Diamonds: the Evolution of the Ballpark
- 1994 – John Helyar, for Lords of the Realm
- 1995 – Henry W. Thomas, for Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
- 1996 – Marty Appel, for Slide, Kelly, Slide
- 1997 – Thomas Dyja, for Play for a Kingdom
- 1998 – David Pietrusza, for Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- 1999 – Neal Karlen, for Slouching Toward Fargo
- 2000 – Reed Browning, for Cy Young: A Baseball Life
- 2001 – Tom Stanton, for The Final Season
- 2002 – Howard Bryant, for Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
- 2003 – Michael Lewis, for Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- 2004 – Leigh Montville, for Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
- 2005 – Jonathan Eig, for Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
- 2006 – Peter Morris, for Game of Inches
- 2007 – Joe Posnanski, for The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
- 2008 – Kadir Nelson, for We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
- 2009 – Larry Tye, for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
- 2010 – Howard Bryant, for The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
- 2011 – Kostya Kennedy, for 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
- 2012 – Paul Dickson, for Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
- 2013 – Herschel Cobb, for Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb
- 2014 - Kostya Kennedy, for Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
- 2015 - Charles Leerhsen, for Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
- 2016 - Michael Leahy, for The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers[2]
- 2017 – Marty Appel, for Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character
- 2018 – Rob Neyer, for Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
- 2019 - Jeremy Beer, for Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
- 2020 - Thomas Gilbert, for How Baseball Happened
- 2021 – Joe Posnanski, for The Baseball 100
See also
- Jerry Malloy Book Prize (SABR)
- Seymour Medal (SABR)
- Baseball America#Best baseball books
- Baseball awards#Baseball book of the year
- Category:Baseball books
- List of literary awards#Sports
- List of sports journalism awards
References
- ^ "Phil S. Dixon: The Legacy of the Negro Leagues". Wolfman Productions, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
Dixon, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, ... [is] the great-great-nephew of former United States Senator Blanch Kelso Bruce.
- ^ "Michael Leahy Wins 2016 CASEY Award!". Spitball Magazine. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
Further reading
- McEntegart, Pete; Wertheim, L. Jon; Menez, Gene; Bechtel, Mark (December 16, 2002). "SI's "The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time"". CNN/Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
External links
- Casey Award. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine website.
- Casey Award Winners by Spitball Magazine. Baseball Almanac.
- The Casey Award. Roy Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf.