The SABR Bookshelf: Fall 2021
Here are the SABR Bookshelf listings for Fall 2021.
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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.
Baltimore Baseball
Edited by Bill Nowlin
Publisher: SABR
Retail Price: $9.99 (ebook)
ISBN: 978-1-9701-5954-7
Buy It: SABR
Summary: A SABR Digital Library publication with dozens of game stories from the most memorable contests played in Baltimore, including Negro Leagues games and by the minor-league and major-league Orioles.
One-Hit Wonders
Edited by Bill Nowlin
Publisher: SABR
Retail Price: $9.99 (ebook)
ISBN: 978-1-9701-5956-1
Buy It: SABR
Summary: A SABR Digital Library publication with compelling stories and bios for some of the 1,400 major-league players who finished their careers with one base hit.
Baseball Generations: Career Value Index – A New Look at the Hall of Fame and Rating the Greatest Players of All Time
By David J. Gordon
Publisher: Summer Game Books
Retail Price: $27.99 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-9553-9806-0
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: Gordon has created a new rating system to compare the greatest players of all time using a WAR-based system.
The Least Among Them: 29 Players, Their Brief Moments in the Big Leagues, and a Unique History of the New York Yankees
By Paul Russell Semendinger
Publisher: Artemesia Publishing
Retail Price: $17.99 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-9511-2216-4
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: The stories of the 29 Yankee players who appeared in just one career game in the major leagues.
Jackie Mitchell: The Girl Who Loved Baseball
By John M. Kovach
Publisher: Waldenhouse Publishers
Retail Price: $14.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-9475-8940-7
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: This volume goes beyond Mitchell’s pitching to Babe Ruth to tell the full story of her life and her many years in baseball.
1979: The Expos First, Great Season
By Norm King
Publisher: Scoop Press
Retail Price: $15.50 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-7774-1322-4
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: The late SABR member Norm King’s unfinished manuscript on a memorable Montreal Expos team was completed by his friend and fellow author Danny Gallagher.
Seven Games in ’62: The Yankees and Giants Square Off in a Classic World Series
By John Iamarino
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $35.00 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8751-3
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: A thorough account of a dramatic World Series that ended on a Willie McCovey line drive that drew a lament from Charles Schulz.
Baseball’s Most Bizarre Plays: A Roster of the Odd, the Improbable and the Downright Confounding in Major League History
By Alan Hirsch
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $29.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8707-0
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: An amusing description of the 150 most bizarre plays in baseball history, from Randy Johnson to Al Hrabosky to three runners meeting at one base.
A Brand New Ballgame: Branch Rickey, Bill Veeck, Walter O’Malley and the Transformation of Baseball, 1945–1962
By G. Scott Thomas
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $39.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8656-1
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: An account of a tumultuous period in baseball history, from team relocations to racial integration to expansion to the launch of a players’ union.
American Legion Baseball: A History, 1924–2020
By William E. Akin
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $39.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8574-8
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: The growth of American Legion baseball from its origins after World War I to its peak in the 1950s, when it boasted more than 16,000 teams across the US.
Dr. Strangeglove: The Life and Times of All-Star Slugger Dick Stuart
By William J. Ryczek
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $39.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8553-3
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: The story of a brash first baseman of the 1950s and 1960s known for his outsized ego and terrible fielding.
Barney Dreyfuss: Pittsburgh’s Baseball Titan
By Brian Martin
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $39.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7961-7
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: A biography of the innovative Hall of Fame owner and executive of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bill DeWitt Sr.: Patriarch of a Baseball Family
By Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Retail Price: $35.00 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7260-1
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Summary: A biography of a celebrated baseball executive who owned the St. Louis Browns and Cincinnati Reds and also worked for the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers.
A Complete History of the Major League Baseball Playoffs – Volume I
By Evan Thompson
Publisher: BookBaby
Retail Price: $34.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-0983-7280-4
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: The first of a series of books on baseball’s playoffs. This volume deals with tiebreakers in the pre-divisional era, along with the LCS rounds between 1969 and 1976.
Banned For Life: The Benny Kauff Story
By Jimmy Keenan
Publisher: Self-published
Retail Price: $15.99 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 979-8-4842-5680-8
Buy It: Amazon
Summary: A biography of a talented outfielder in the 1910s who ran into trouble with the law and was banned for life after getting mixed up in an auto theft case.
Gettysburg Eddie Plank: A Pitcher’s Journey to the Hall of Fame
By Dave Heller
Publisher: McFarland Books
Retail Price: $39.95 (sftcvr)
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8454-3
Buy It: McFarlandBooks.com
Summary: A biography of the Philadelphia A’s great left-hander during their dynasty years under Connie Mack in the early 20th century.