Larry Ritter Book Award (Deadball)
Each year, SABR’s Deadball Era Committee presents the Larry Ritter Book Award to recognize the best new baseball book primarily set in the Deadball Era that was published during the previous calendar year. The Ritter Award is presented during the Deadball Committee’s meeting at the annual SABR convention.
All Larry Ritter Award-winning books can be purchased at the SABR Bookstore.
2013 award nominations
To submit a nomination for the 2013 Larry Ritter Book Award (2012 publication date), contact Gail Rowe at growes36@comcast.net by December 30, 2012. Deadline for receipt of nominated books by the committee is January 2013.
Larry Ritter Award winners
- 2012
Glenn Stout's Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - 2011
Kate Buford's Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe (Alfred A. Knopf) - 2010
Robert Peyton Wiggins’s The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914—1915 (McFarland) - 2009
Ronald M. Selter’s Ballparks of the Deadball Era: A Comprehensive Study of Their Dimension, Configurations and Effects on Batting, 1901-1919 (McFarland) - 2008
Norman L. Macht’s Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (University of Nebraska Press) - 2007
Gene Carney’s Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded (Potomac) - 2006
Richard Bak’s Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours (Sports Media Group) - 2005
Jeffrey Powers-Beck’s The American Indian Integration of Baseball (University of Nebraska Press) - 2004
James E. Elfers’s The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball’s 1913—1914 World Tour (Bison Books) - 2003
Jim Reisler’s Before They Were the Bombers: The New York Yankees’ Early Years, 1903—1915 (McFarland) - 2002
Martin Donell Kohout’s Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball’s Biggest Crook (McFarland)
