The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2023

Periodically throughout the year, SABR.org publishes The SABR Bookshelf, a listing of new books that are received at the SABR office.

To get your NEW book listed on The SABR Bookshelf, send an e-book file in PDF, EPUB or MOBI format to jpomrenke@sabr.org.

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Bolded names indicates that the author(s) is a SABR member. Click here for a list of publishers found in the SABR Bookshelf, along with their contact information.

In addition, check out new books published by SABR at SABR.org/ebooks.

 

Spring 2023

Click on the link above for more detailed information on each of these books:

  • Nichibei Yakyu: US Tours of Japan, 1907-1958 (Volume 1), edited by Robert K. Fitts, Bill Nowlin, and James Forr
  • When the Babe Went Back to Boston: Babe Ruth, Judge Fuchs and the Hapless Braves of 1935, by Bob LeMoine
  • Bill Virdon: A Life in Baseball, by David Jerome
  • Pete Hill: Black Baseball’s First Superstar, by Bob Luke
  • World Series ’48: The Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves in Six Games, by John G. Robertson and Carl T. Madden
  • Field of Magic: Baseball’s Superstitions, Curses and Taboos, by John Cairney
  • Fans Called Him “Turkey,” I Called Him Dad: A Daughter Remembers Baseball Hall of Famer Norman Thomas Stearnes, by Rosilyn Stearnes-Brown
  • Baseball’s Wildest Season: Three Leagues, Thirty-Four Teams and the Chaos of 1884, by William J. Ryczek
  • Black Stats Matter: Integrating Negro League Numbers into Major League Records, by Philip Lee
  • Baseball’s Union Association, by Justin Mckinney
  • Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess, by Evan Drellich
  • Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966, by David Krell
  • The Voices of Baseball: The Game’s Greatest Broadcasters Reflect on America’s Pastime (Updated Edition), by Kirk McKnight
  • Sons of Baseball: Growing Up with a Major League Dad, by Mark Braff
  • Baseball at the Abyss: The Scandals of 1926, Babe Ruth, and the Unlikely Savior Who Rescued a Tarnished Game, by Dan Taylor
  • Jazz Age Giant: Charles R. Stoneham & New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties, by Robert F. Garratt
  • Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball, by Chris Donnelly
  • One Season in Rocket City: How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama, by Dale Tafoya
  • Baseball’s Endangered Species: Inside the Craft Scouting by Those Who Lived It, by Lee Lowenfish
  • Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers, by Erik Sherman
  • Get in the Game: An Interactive Introduction to Sports Analytics, by Tim Chartier
  • Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry, by David Vaught
  • Fields Apart, by J.N. Kelly
  • Baseball Is In My DNA: A History of Baseball in Freehold, New Jersey 1857-1973, by Glenn Cashion
  • Black College Nines: The History of HBCU Baseball and Integrators of Historically White College Baseball Programs, by Jay Sokol
  • Major League Debuts 2023, by James Bailey
  • Name that Hall of Famer: Marathon Ump, by Troy Grimes
  • A Baseball Birthright: Chronicles & Connections, by Pasquale A. Carlucci
  • The Boys of Spring: The Birth of the Dodgers, by Allen Schery

To view previous listings in The SABR Bookshelf, click here.



Originally published: March 30, 2023. Last Updated: March 30, 2023.