Books Mentioned on This Site
As you scroll through the book reviews of the three volumes by Harold Seymour (Seymour Books) in or by the reviewers of the Seymour Award Books (Seymour Medal) you surely notice mention of other fine baseball books.
And when you look at the biographies of the stellar reviewers whose work appears in Our Reviewers, you realize that many of these reviewers are themselves well-known baseball authors!
Besides, the publishers honored by having their books selected as Seymour Award books (Medal Winners!) offer many other high-quality volumes for both fans and academic scholars, volumes that may be just what you are looking for.
Even perusing Let's Go! makes you realize that many of the active baseball people mentioned here are, at this very moment, preparing new baseball books for publication, books destined to catch your attention in the near future!
New Books Worth Reading
Steve Steinberg, Baseball in St. Louis, 1900-1925. Arcadia: 2004. With the Gateway to the West as the setting, Steinberg tackles the complex happenings of early twentieth century baseball. Read a review by Lloyd Johnson.
Branch Rickey's Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy From Baseball's Last Wise Man. Preface by Stan Musial. Edited from private papers and public writings by John J. Monteleone. Toronto: Sport Classic Books, 2004. Read a review by Thomas Bourke.
Leonard Koppett, The Thinking Fan's Guide to Baseball. Toronto: Sport Media Publishing Inc., 2004. Read a review by David Shiner.
Mike Attiyeh, Ichiro, Satchel, and the Babe: More Baseball's Fun Facts and Serious Trivia. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Read a review by Roberta Newman.
Bob Dolgan, Heroes, Scamps, and Good Guys: 101 Colorful Characters from Cleveland Sports History. Cleveland: Gray and Company, 2003. Read a review by Fred Schuld.
James L. Terry, Long Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Company, 2002. Brooklyn ball when it was the center of the baseball universe. Read a review by Roberta Newman.
Brian Turner and John S. Bowman, The Hurrah Game: Baseball in Northampton, 1823-1953. Northampton MA: Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center, 2002. A nostalgic trip through the baseball history of this Western Massachusetts city. Read a review by William Akin.
Mike Attiyeh, Who Was Traded for Lefty Grove? Baseball's Fun Facts and Serious Trivia. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Super-trivia challenge with hundreds of facts. Read a review by Jerry Wright.
Neil J. Sullivan, The Diamond in the Bronx; Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York. Oxford University Press, 2001. Find out how "the house that Ruth built" was really created. Read a review by Chris Jennison.
Other Interesting Baseball Books
New baseball books get published every week, many of them valuable and fascinating. Would you like to suggest other books that we might feature on this site? We will list on this page the ones you nominate for listing, if they:
- . . are mentioned in "Our Reviewers." We want to recognize the accomplishments of these talented reviewers.
- . . are mentioned in reviews of the three Seymour books. We want to recognize reviewers who have studied and explained the Seymour books.
- . . are written by the authors of Seymour Award books or those who made the finals list. We want to recognize these authors for their other published books, too.
- . . are written by any author mentioned anywhere on the Seymour site, even if the titles of those books aren't given. We want to recognize the books of all the authors who have proved worthy of mention on this site.
- . . are published by the publishers honored here as having brought to publication any Seymour Award books or those that made the finals list.
We want to recognize publishers who know good baseball history when they see it.
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
.
|