The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2016

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 2016:

http://sabr.org/content/sabr-bookshelf-spring-2016

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 — 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.

All new SABR Bookshelf listings can be purchased at the SABR Bookstore, powered by Amazon.com. In addition, check out new books published by SABR at SABR.org/ebooks (free for SABR members!)

 

Spring 2016

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

  • Au jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos, edited by Norm King
  • The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game Six, edited by Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy
  • The 1986 New York Mets: There Was More Than Game Six, edited by Leslie Heaphy and Bill Nowlin
  • 100: The 100 Year Journey of a Baseball Journeyman, Mike Sandlock, edited by Karl Cicitto
  • Down on the Korner: Ralph Kiner and Kiner’s Korner, by Mark Rosenman and Howie Karpin
  • The Yankees Index: Every Number Tells a Story, by Mark Simon
  • The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team, by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller
  • The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports, by Jeff Passan
  • Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens, by Greg W. Prince
  • When Shea Was Home: The Story of the 1975 Mets, Yankees, Giants, and Jets, by Brett Topel
  • When the Braves Ruled the Diamond: Fourteen Flags over Atlanta, by Dan Schlossberg
  • Pirates By the Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Bucs By Uniform Number, by David Finoli
  • Tales from the Atlanta Braves Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest Braves Stories Ever Told, by Cory McCartney
  • Incredible Baseball Stats: The Coolest, Strangest Stats and Facts in Baseball History, by Kevin Reavy and Ryan Spaeder
  • Skipper Supreme: Buck Showalter and the Baltimore Orioles, by Todd Karpovich and Jeff Seidel
  • Dingers: The 101 Most Memorable Home Runs in Baseball History, by Joshua Shifrin and Tommy Shea
  • Another Time … Another Place — Baseball Reflections, by Stu Rossman
  • The Boy Who Would Not Play Ball, by Robert Brewer
  • For the Love of Baseball: A Celebration of the Game That Connects Us All, edited by Lee Butkind and Andrew Blauner
  • Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution, by Brian Kenny
  • Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry: Media, Players, and Society, edited by Nicholas David Bowman, John S.W. Spinda, and Jimmy Sanderson
  • 50 Moments That Defined Major League Baseball, by Rocco Constantino
  • The 50 Greatest Players in Pittsburgh Pirates History, by David Finoli
  • Characters from the Diamond: Wild Events, Crazy Antics, and Unique Tales from Early Baseball, by Ronald T. Waldo
  • Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life, by J. Christopher Schutz
  • Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life, by Ron Darling and Daniel Paisner
  • Lawyerball: The Courtroom Battle of the Orioles Against the Nationals and MLB For The Future of Baseball, by Charles H. Martin
  • When Baseball Was King: The History of Semi-pro Baseball in Dunsmuir, California (1895-1970), by John David Fischer
  • Baseball in Territorial Arizona: A History, 1863-1912, by John Darrin Tenney
  • The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams, by Michael Tackett
  • Kings of Queens: Life Beyond Baseball with ’86 Mets, by Erik Sherman
  • Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871-1875, by William J. Ryczek
  • Ralph Kiner: A Baseball Biography, by Robert P. Broadwater
  • Happy Felsch: Banished Black Sox Center Fielder, by Thomas Rathkamp
  • The Tigers and Yankees in ’61: A Pennant Race for the Ages, the Babe’s Record Broken and Stormin’ Norman’s Greatest Season, by Jim Sargent
  • The Prehistories of Baseball, by Seelochan Beharry
  • Hairs vs. Squares: The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of ’72, by Ed Gruver
  • Dodgerland: Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-78 Dodgers, by Michael Fallon

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

 



Originally published: May 11, 2016. Last Updated: May 11, 2016.