The SABR Bookshelf: Winter 2012
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Winter 2012
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- Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs’ Glory Years, by Randy Roberts & Carson Cunningham
- Trading Manny: How A Father & Son Learned To Love Baseball Again, by Jim Gullo
- Summer of ’68: The Season that Changed Baseball — and America — Forever, by Tim Wendel
- 1924 and You Are There!, by Jeff Polman
- The School With All The Catchers: A History of the Crawford High School Baseball Program, by Joe Naiman
- The South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954, by Jim Sargent and Robert M. Gorman
- Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George “Boomer” Scott, by Ron Anderson
- Eliot Asinof and the Truth of the Game: A Critical Study of the Baseball Writings, by William Farina
- A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W.P. Kinsella, by William Steele
- The Battling Bucs of 1925: How the Pittsburgh Pirates Pulled Off the Greatest Comeback in World Series History, by Ronald T. Waldo
- Red Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011, by William F. McNeil
- The Mental Road to the Major Leagues: A Guide for Rising Ballplayers, by Kelly J. Pfaff and Peder N. Piering
- The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916, by Joel S. Franks
- Baseball’s War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to the Present, by Brett Kiser
- Center Field Grasses: Poems from Baseball, by Gene Fehler
- Tiger Stadium, Comerica Park: History & Memories, by Irwin J. Cohen
- Baseball Between Us: A Road Map to a Winning Father/Son Relationship, by Mike Luery
- Travels with Ghosts and Other Tales, by Joe Scherrman and Suzanne Wright, eds.
- The Wonder Team in the White City: U.V.M. At the Intercollegiate Base Ball Tournament of 1893, by Tom Simon
- Jack and Larry, the Cleveland Baseball Dog, by Barbara Gregorich
- Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography, by Stuart Shea
- The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times, by Steven Travers
- Best Mets: Fifty Years of Highs and Lows from New York’s Most Agonizingly Amazin’ Team, by Matthew Silverman
- Willy’s Ballgame, by Dennis N. Ricci
- Hot Hand: The Statistics Behind Sports’ Greatest Streaks, by Alan Reifman
- Celebrating Ourselves: African-Americans and the Promise of Baseball, by Daryl Russell Grigsby
- 3 Tales From the Grand Old Game, by Austin Gisriel
Originally published: February 10, 2012. Last Updated: February 10, 2012.