The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2019
Periodically throughout the year, SABR.org publishes The SABR Bookshelf, a listing of new books that are received at the SABR office.
Here are The SABR Bookshelf listings for Spring 2019:
SABR.org/content/sabr-bookshelf-spring-2019
To get your NEW book listed on The SABR Bookshelf, make sure a review copy is sent to: The SABR Bookshelf, Cronkite School at ASU, 555 N. Central Ave. #416, Phoenix, AZ 85004. An e-book file will also suffice; please send the e-book in PDF, EPUB or Kindle/MOBI format to jpomrenke@sabr.org.
To ensure a listing in The Baseball Index — SABR’s online catalog of baseball research materials at www.baseballindex.org — make sure a review copy is sent to The Baseball Index, 4025 Beechwood Pl., Riverside, CA 92506.
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 2019
Click on the link above for more detailed information on each of these books:
- Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison, edited by Gregory H. Wolf
- Jeff Bagwell in Connecticut: A Consistent Lad in the Land of Steady Habits, edited by Karl Cicitto, Bill Nowlin, and Len Levin
- The Team that Couldn’t Hit: The 1972 Texas Rangers, edited by Steve West and Bill Nowlin
- A Whole New Ballgame: The 1969 Washington Senators 50th Anniversary Edition, by Stephen J. Walker and Ronnie Joyner
- Baseball Under the Palms: The History of Miami Minor League Baseball – The Early Years 1892-1960, by Sam Zygner and Barbra Cabrera
- The Four Home Runs Club: Sluggers Who Achieved Baseball’s Rarest Feat, by Steven K. Wagner
- The 1988 Dodgers: Reliving the Championship Season, by K.P. Wee
- The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman, by Don Zminda
- Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, by Doug Wilson
- When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope, by Kevin Cowherd
- No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing, by Joe Bonomo
- When Big Data was Small: My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design, by Richard D. Cramer
- Almost Yankees: The Summer of ’81 and the Greatest Baseball Team You’ve Never Heard Of, by J. David Herman
- Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball, by David Block
- Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees fought for New York’s Baseball Soul, by Chris Donnelly
- They Played the Game: Memories from 47 Major Leaguers, by Norman Macht
- A Fine Team Man: Jackie Robinson and the Lives He Touched, by Joe Cox
- Great American Baseball Stories, edited by Jeff Silverman
- The New York Yankees of the 1950s, by David Fisher
- Shea Stadium Remembered: The Mets, The Jets, and Beatlemania, by Matthew Silverman
- Women’s College Softball on the Rise: A Season Inside the Game, by Mark Allister
- Bad Boys, Bad Times: The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Prewar Years, 1937-1941, by Scott Longert
- Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy, by David Naze
- Here’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising, by Roberta J. Newman
- Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires (3 vols.), by James E. Brunson III
- The Polo Grounds: Essays and Memories of New York City’s Historic Ballpark, 1880-1963, edited by Stew Thornley
- Play Ball! Doughboys and Baseball during the Great War, by Alexander F. Barnes, Peter L. Belmonte & Samuel O. Barnes
- Dick Allen: The Life and Times of a Baseball Immortal, by William C. Kashatus
- Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know About Baseball, by Christopher J. Phillips
- Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play, by S. Derby Gisclair
- Before They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago’s First Professional Baseball Team , by Jack Bales
- Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark, by Alva Noë
- Black Thursday, Blue Monday: In Search of the Curse of the Washington Nationals, by David Bledsoe
To view previous listings in The SABR Bookshelf, click here.
Originally published: May 13, 2019. Last Updated: August 21, 2020.