Group Book Projects and Writing Opportunities

The Baseball Biography Project encourages and supports team or region-based group projects (or whatever groupings you might think of). For a list of all SABR Digital Library publications, visit SABR.org/ebooks.

If you have an idea for a book or web project featuring your team, your part of the world, your area of interest — please contact Bill Nowlin at bill.nowlin@rounder.com.

To submit a proposal to our Editorial Board, click here to learn more.

To find a list of upcoming projects and learn more about writing opportunities, scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Books already published

Here are the projects which have been completed and published. Click on a link below to read all bios from that book.

• 1870s Boston Red Stockings (SABR, 2016)
• 1890s Boston Beaneaters (SABR, 2019)
• 1901 Boston Americans (SABR, 2013)
• 1912 Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2012)
• 1914 Boston Braves (SABR, 2014)
• 1918 Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2018)
• 1919 Chicago White Sox (SABR, 2015)
• 1929 Chicago Cubs (SABR, 2015)
• 1934 St. Louis Cardinals (SABR, 2014)
• 1935 Detroit Tigers (SABR, 2014)
• 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords (SABR, 2020)
• 1939 Boston Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2009)
• 1946 Newark Eagles (SABR, 2019)
• 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2012)
• 1947 New York Yankees (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2013)
• 1948 Boston Braves/Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2008)
• 1948 Negro League World Series (SABR, 2017)
• 1950 Philadelphia Phillies (SABR, 2018)
• 1950s Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2012)
• 1951 New York Giants (SABR, 2015)
• 1954 Cleveland Indians (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2014)
• 1957 Milwaukee Braves (SABR, 2014)
• 1959 Chicago White Sox (SABR, 2019)
• 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (SABR, 2013)
• 1964 St. Louis Cardinals (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2013)
• 1964 Philadelphia Phillies (SABR, 2013)
• 1965 Minnesota Twins (SABR, 2015)
• 1967 Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2017)
• 1968 Detroit Tigers (Maple Street Press, 2008)
• 1969 New York Mets (Maple Street Press, 2009)
• 1970 Baltimore Orioles (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2012)
• 1972 Texas Rangers (SABR, 2019)
• 1972-74 Oakland Athletics (SABR, 2015)
• 1975 Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2015)
• 1975 Cincinnati Reds (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2014)
• 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates (SABR, 2016)
• 1982 Milwaukee Brewers (SABR, 2020)
• 1984 Detroit Tigers (SABR, 2012)
• 1986 Boston Red Sox (SABR, 2016)
• 1986 New York Mets (SABR, 2016)
• 1995 Atlanta Braves (SABR, 2020)
• 1995 Cleveland Indians (SABR, 2019)
• Cuban Baseball Legends (SABR, 2016)
• Federal League (SABR, 2020)
• From Spring Training to Screen Test (SABR, 2018)
• Kansas City Royals 50th Anniversary (SABR, 2019)
• Major League Baseball A Mile High (Colorado Rockies) (SABR, 2018)
• Minnesotans in Baseball (Nodin Press, 2009)
• No-Hitters (SABR, 2017)
• Nuclear Powered Baseball/The Simpsons (SABR, 2016)
• Puerto Rico and Baseball (SABR, 2017)
• San Diego Padres 50th Anniversary (SABR, 2019)
• Scouts book: Can He Play? (SABR, 2011)
• Time for Expansion Baseball (SABR, 2018)
• Tony Conigliaro Award (SABR, 2017)
• Umpires and Umpiring (SABR, 2017)
• Van Lingle Mungo (SABR, 2014)
• World War II replacement players (SABR, 2015)

All of these projects resulted in books, which can be ordered at SABR.org/ebooks or on Amazon.com. We publish a handful of books every year through the SABR Digital Library.

• Related link: For a list of all SABR Games Project books, click here

Upcoming group projects

If you are interested in contributing to these group projects as a writer, editor, fact-checker, etc., please contact Bill Nowlin at bill.nowlin@rounder.com.

• 1883 Philadelphia Athletics
• 1942 Kansas City Monarchs
• Colorado Silver Bullets
• Major League Stars from Venezuela
• Major League Stars from the Dominican Republic
• One-Hit Wonders (players with exactly 1 hit in the major leagues)
• Jackie Robinson portrayals in fiction and pop culture
• Century Committee: 1921 Year in Review
• That’s the Ticket: The Evolution of Baseball Tickets

SABR members also have the opportunity to contribute to these upcoming Games Project books, too:

• SABR Convention Ballgames book
• Baltimore Orioles greatest games
• Ebbets Field greatest games
• Jackie Robinson’s greatest games
• Griffith Stadium greatest games
• Yankee Stadium greatest games
• Metropolitan Stadium (Minnesota) greatest games
• Greatest comebacks

Last update: November 30, 2020

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