The SABR Bookshelf: Spring 2025
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. 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 2025
Click on the link above for more detailed information on each of these books:
- Here Comes the Pizzer: The Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts, edited by Eric Poulin
- The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers, edited by Eric Conrad, Mark Morowczynski, Bill Nowlin, and Don Zminda
- From Bytown to the Big Leagues: 150 Years of America’s Pastime in Canada’s Capital, Ottawa Baseball from 1865 to 2025, edited by Steve Rennie and Bill Nowlin
- When Minor League Baseball Almost Went Bust: 1946-1963, edited by George Pawlush
- 72 Stories: From the Baseball Collection of Geddy Lee, by Geddy Lee
- Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago’s Major League Teams, by Don Zminda
- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, by Kevin Baker
- Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, by Will Bardenwerper
- Movies and the Church of Baseball, by Jonathan Plummer
- The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 4th Edition (two volumes) , by Lloyd Johnson and Miles Wolff
- Brooklyn Dodgers Transactions, 1890-1957: A History and Analysis, by Lyle Spatz
- Cooperstown’s Back Door: A History of Negro Leaguers in the Baseball Hall of Fame, by Paul D. White
- The Caribbean Series: Latin America’s Annual Baseball Tournament, 1949-2024, by Thomas E. Van Hyning
- A Baseball Book of Days: Thirty-One Moments that Transformed the Game, by Phil Coffin
- Baseball’s Two-Way Greats: Pitching/Batting Stars from Ruth and Rogan to Ohtani, by Chris Jensen
- 3,000: Baseball’s Elite Clubs for Hits and Strikeouts, by Douglas J. Jordan
- Diamond Duels: Baseball’s Greatest Matchups, by John Nogowski
- Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series, by Chris Donnelly
- A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey, by Chris Haft
- 1978: Baseball & America in the Disco Era, by David Krell
- One More for the White Rat: The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals Chase the Pennant, by Doug Feldmann
- Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by David Block
- Baseball’s First Superstar: The Lost Life of Christy Mathewson, by Alan D. Gaff
- A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, by Jason Cannon
- Talking Baseball with Major League Stars, by Wayne Stewart
- All the Way: The Life of Baseball Trailblazer Maybelle Blair, by Kat D. Williams
- Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America, by Jeffrey Orens
- The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978, by Matt Sieger
- Leveling the Playing Field: Women Breaking Barriers in Major League Baseball Coaching and Leadership, by Al Lautenslager
- Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend, by Mark Whicker
- Out of the Mouth of Babe: Babe Ruth on Life: Pitching, Hitting, Striking Out, and Coming Back Swinging, by Kelly Bennett
- From St. Louis To Cooperstown: Baseball Legends Born and Made In the Gateway City, by Ed Wheatley
- I Was Born Poor, I Was Born Black, and I Was Born in Mississippi: When You’ve Been Through That You Can Deal with Anything, by Ron Anderson
- Baseball Like It Oughta Be: How a Shoe Salesman’s Madison Mallards and His Renegade Staff Ignited the Summer-Collegiate Baseball Revolution, by Tom Alesia
- Death of a Childhood: A Memoir of 1989 and the “Why Not?” Baltimore Orioles, by Ryan Basen
- Cape Dreams: A Season With the Brewster Whitecaps, by Mark Epstein
- Baseball Card Heroes: Stories from the Dugout and Beyond, by K.P. Wee
- A Brooklyn Guy: The Greatest Brooklyn Dodger You’ve Never Heard Of, by Noel Hynd
- Baseball’s Unlikely: A Constant, by Scott S. Parker and Rusty Austin
- From Randy Johnson to Dallas Braden: No-Hitters Beyond the Box Score, by Kevin Hurd
- Old Ontario at Bat: An Unheralded Ancestry, by Bill Humber
- El Grandes Ligas de la Patria Grande (The Major Leaguer of the Big Country), by Edwin R. Pérez
- Dangerous Danny Gardella: Baseball’s Neglected Trailblazer for Today’s Millionaire Athletes, by Robert Elias
- Baseball’s Best (and Worst) Teams: The Top (and Bottom) Clubs Since 1903, by G. Scott Thomas
To view previous listings in The SABR Bookshelf, click here.
Originally published: April 14, 2025. Last Updated: April 16, 2025.