The SABR Bookshelf: Fall 2026
Periodically throughout the year, SABR.org publishes The SABR Bookshelf, a listing of new books that are received at the SABR office.
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Bolded names indicates that the author(s) is a SABR member.
In addition, check out new books published by SABR at SABR.org/ebooks.
Fall 2026
Click on the link above for more detailed information on each of these books:
- Celebration: The A’s at the Oakland Coliseum, edited by Bill Nowlin, Glen Sparks, and Marlene Vogelsang
- How We Played the Game: Baseball at Manzanar, 1942–1945Edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr
- Two Outs, So What!: The 2001 Seattle Mariners, edited by Steve Friedman, Eric Vickrey, and Bill Nowlin
- Cape Cod Baseball League: From College Stars to Big League FuturesEdited by Mike Richard and Bill Nowlin
- The Negro Leagues’ 1931 Homestead Grays: The Color of GreatnessEdited by Thomas Kern and Bill Nowlin
- After the Black Sox: The Chicago White Sox in Transition, 1920-1926 By Bruce S. Allardice
- Warren Giles: The National League’s Longest Serving President By Don Doxsie
- Tar Heel Boys of Summer: North Carolina’s Major League Ballplayers By Frank V. Tursi
- The Greatest of Their Times: Comparing Baseball’s Peak Performers Across Eras By R. Gordon Shepherd
- The Land of Sand and Cotton: Texas, Workingmen, and Professional Baseball in 1888 By William H. Brewster
- Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship, by Peter Eisenstadt
- This One Will Be Different: False Promises and Fiscal Realities of Publicly Funded Stadiums, by J.C. Bradbury
- A Baseball Memoir: From the Last Fan to Work in Major League Baseball, by Andy Strasberg
- Timing is Everything, by Timothy Bernard Carr
- The Gilt Edge of Ambition: A Sportsman’s Gamble for Power and Baseball, by Lisa Jonsson
- Beyond the Mic: Behind the Scenes Stories from America’s Best and Brightest Broadcasters, by Micah Soloshatz
- One Day in September: Baseball, Brotherhood, and the Birth of the All-Star Game, by Scott Reich
- The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers: My Dad’s Team, by Len Ferman
- On This Rock: Pedro Martinez, Boston and a Pitching Peak for the Ages, by Allan S. Martin
- School of Hard Knucks: My Three Sons and Baseball’s Wildest Pitch, by Brian Gaffney
- The Diamond Pyramid: Saving American Baseball by Breaking It, by Tim Brice
- Obstructed Views: Vignettes in Verse from Baseball’s History, by Darren K. Rogers
- I Would Have Paid Them to Play: A Memoir of Baseball, Family, and South Amboy, by Bill “Biff” McKeon
- Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Tabletop Simulations, by Derek Bain, Steven W. Etzel, Andy Palomino, and Kurt Bergland
- Patriarchs of the Dugout: Baseball/s Greatest Managers, by Matthew H. DiBiase
- From Runs to Wins, by Ricardo de la Peña
- Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone: Baseball Poems of New York, by Matthew Johnson
- Outfield Epiphanies: Baseball Haiku, by Rich Puerzer
- Comedians Talking Baseball, edited by Mike Vance
- Summer of the Cheap Wieners: What the 1941 Phillies Were Up To While Joe DiMaggio Was Making History, by Justin P. Klugh
- The Howleyites: Toronto’s Changing City, A Stadium Rising, and The Champions of 1926, by D.M. Fox
- Ballparks of the Pacific Coast League, by Larry Zuckerman
- The New Expanded Pacific Coast League Record, 1897-1968, by Carlos Bauer
- The Incredible Chicago Cubs Trivia Book: 300 Questions for the Super-Fan, by Al Yellon
- Hill Country Ball: Depression-Era Baseball in the Texas German Belt, by Richard W. Butler Jr.
- Spitballer: Stan Coveleski and the 1920 Cleveland Indians, by William C. Kashatus
- The Texas Rangers and Me: A Baseball Writer’s Thirty-Two Years in Arlington, by T.R. Sullivan
- So Young, So Great: Bob Feller Electrifies Baseball and America, by Jim R. Ingraham
- You Gotta Love These Guys: Fifty Years of Seattle Mariners Baseball, by David F. Schmitz
- The Shortstop Was a Crook: The Sordid Baseball Life and Crimes of Billy Geer, by Justin Mckinney
- Kid Gleason: A Baseball Life Beyond the Black Sox, by Dirk Baker
- Fort Dodge and the Bawling, Brawling, Hard-Balling Iowa League, 1904-1906, by Scott M. Johnson
- The Year St. Louis Became a Baseball Town: The Cardinals, Babe Ruth & the 1926 World Series, by Terry Lemons
- The Magical Game: The Spirit and History of Baseball/s Superstitions, Rituals, and Curses, by Addy Baird
- NINE: A Novel, by Luc Arnaud
- Baseball Changes Channels: The Dodgers, the Giants and the Birth of Pay TV, by David Gunzerath
- The Luckiest Man Returns, by R.F. Walden
- Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer, by Gregg Sapp
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Originally published: November 10, 2026. Last Updated: November 9, 2026.