Spitball releases finalists for baseball book of year
Read any good baseball books lately?
If not, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine has a few you might need to check out as its editors have released their list of finalists for the 2009 CASEY Award, which goes to the best baseball book of the year.
Here’s the list:
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber (Scribner)
Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero by Peter Morris (Ivan R. Dee)
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander & Robert Reising
The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912 by Mike Vaccaro (Doubleday)
Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles by Michael D’Antonio (Riverhead Books)
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime by Mark Frost (Hyperion)
Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit by Matt McCarthy (Viking)
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye (Random House)
The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It by Warren Corbett (Southern Methodist University Press)
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre & Tom Verducci (Doubleday)
The winner will be named and honored in the spring of 2010.
