The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2017

June 21, 2017/in /by admin

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 2017:

http://sabr.org/content/sabr-bookshelf-spring-2017

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.

In addition, check out new books published by SABR at SABR.org/ebooks (free for SABR members!)

 

Spring 2017

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

• NO-HITTERS, edited by Bill Nowlin
• The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field, edited by Bill Nowlin and Dan Desrochers
• The SABR Book on Umpires and Umpiring, edited by Larry R. Gerlach and Bill Nowlin
• Dome Sweet Dome: History and Highlights from 35 Years of the Houston Astrodome, edited by Gregory H. Wolf
• Overcoming Adversity: Baseball’s Tony Conigliaro Award, edited by Bill Nowlin and Clayton Trutor
• Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957, edited by Steve Weingarden and Bill Nowlin
• Kill the Ámpaya! The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction, by Dick Cluster
• Called Out: A Novel of Base Ball and America in 1908, by Floyd Sullivan
• The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball, by Jerrold I. Casway
• They Wore Red Socks and Pinstripes: Players Who Went to the Enemy, by Todd Stanley
• Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, by Greg W. Prince
• Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers, by Debra A. Shattuck
• Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son, by Paul Dickson
• Wopper: How Babe Ruth Lost His Father and Won the 1918 World Series Against the Cubs, by Frank Amoroso
• Rock Solid: My Life in Baseball’s Fast Lane, by Tim Raines with Alan Maimon
• Big Papi: The Legend and Legacy of David Ortiz, edited by Janice Page
• The Plan: Epstein, Maddon, and the Audacious Blueprint for a Cubs Dynasty, by David Kaplan
• The 50 Greatest Players in New York/San Francisco Giants History, by Robert W. Cohen
• Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War, by Ron Kaplan
• The New Baseball Bible: Notes, Nuggets, Lists, and Legends from Our National Pastime, by Dan Schlossberg
• Waiting for Pumpsie, by Barry Wittenstein
• Breathing Orange Fire: Jose Altuve, by Bill Brown
• Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching’s Holy Grail, by Joe Cox
• The All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives, by Kat Williams
• Playing for a Winner: How Baseball Teams’ Success Raises Player Reputations, by Brandon Isleib
• Ken Williams: A Slugger in Ruth’s Shadow, by Dave Heller
• The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance, by Daniel Anderson
• Baseball in Northwest Iowa, by Joan Wendl Thomas
• Ware’s Boys of Summer: The Stories of Seven Major League Baseball Players from One Small Central Massachusetts Town, by Stephen R. Katz
• Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger, by Lyle Spatz
• Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Rivalry, by Tom Van Riper
• Baseball’s Roaring Twenties: A Decade of Legends, Characters, and Diamond Adventures, by Ronald T. Waldo
• Lyman Bostock: The Inspiring Life and Tragic Death of a Ballplayer, by K. Adam Powell
• Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse, by William C. Kashatus
• Fathers, Sons, & Holy Ghosts: Baseball as a Spiritual Experience, by Austin Gisriel
• A Deadly Game, by Gary M. Lepper
• Coulda Woulda Shoulda: Baseball Stories You Haven’t Heard (Yet), by Chris Williams
• Borchert Field: Stories from Milwaukee’s Legendary Ballpark, by Bob Buege
• Legends Never Die: Athletes and their Afterlives in Modern America, by Richard Ian Kimball
• From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball During the Great War, by Jim Leeke
• Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants, by Robert F. Garratt
• Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador, by Dennis Snelling
• Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age, by Steve Steinberg
• Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball’s Unwritten Code, by William C. Kashatus
• One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime, by John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro
• Making My Pitch: A Woman’s Baseball Odyssey, by Ila Jane Borders with Jean Hastings Ardell
• Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime, edited by George Gmelch and Daniel A. Nathan
• Rowdy Patsy Tebeau and the Cleveland Spiders: Fighting to the Bottom of Baseball, 1887-1899, by David Fleitz
• Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia, by Courtney Michelle Smith
• Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events, by Ed Edmonds and Frank G. Houdek
• The 1933 New York Giants, by Lou Hernandez
• Kansas Baseball, 1858-1941, by Mark Eberle
• Right Down the Middle: The Ralph Terry Story, by Ralph Terry with John Wooley
• City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles, by Jerald Podair
• Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography: The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero, by Michael G. Long and Chris Lamb
• The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age, by Sridhar Pappu
• The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball’s Most Historic Record, by John Eisenberg
• The Life and Trials of Roger Clemens: Baseball’s Rocket Man and the Questionable Case Against Him, by Hansen Alexander
• Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character, by Marty Appel
• Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me, by Stacey May Fowles
• A History of Badger Baseball: The Rise and Fall of America’s Pastime at the University of Wisconsin, by Steven D. Schmitt
• High and Inside: The New York Knickerbockers Baseball Team and the Season of 1956, by Mark Mitchell

 

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

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Originally published: June 21, 2017. Last Updated: June 21, 2017.