Casey Award

The Casey Award has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983. The award was begun by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of “Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine.”

Casey Award recipients

• 1983 – Eric Rolfe Greenberg, for The Celebrant
• 1984 – Peter Golenbock, for Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
• 1985 – Roger Kahn, for Good Enough to Dream
• 1986 – Bill James, for The Bill James Historical Abstract
• 1987 – Peter H. Gordon, for Diamonds Are Forever
• 1988 – John Holway, for Blackball Stars
• 1989 – Mike Sowell, for The Pitch That Killed
• 1990 – Harold Seymour, for Baseball: The People’s Game
• 1991 – Bruce Kuklick, for To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976
• 1992 – Phil S. Dixon, for The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History^[1]
• 1993 – Michael Gershman, for Diamonds: the Evolution of the Ballpark
• 1994 – John Helyar, for Lords of the Realm
• 1995 – Henry W. Thomas, for Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
• 1996 – Marty Appel, for Slide, Kelly, Slide
• 1997 – Thomas Dyja, for Play for a Kingdom
• 1998 – David Pietrusza, for Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• 1999 – Neal Karlen, for Slouching Toward Fargo
• 2000 – Reed Browning, for Cy Young: A Baseball Life
• 2001 – Tom Stanton, for The Final Season
• 2002 – Howard Bryant, for Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
• 2003 – Michael Lewis, for Moneyball
• 2004 – Leigh Montville, for Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
• 2005 – Jonathan Eig, for Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
• 2006 – Peter Morris, for Game of Inches
• 2007 – Joe Posnanski, for The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
• 2008 – Kadir Nelson, for We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
• 2009 – Larry Tye, for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
• 2010 – Howard Bryant, for The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
• 2011 – Kostya Kennedy, for 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
• 2012 – Paul Dickson, for Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
• 2013 – Herschel Cobb, for Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb
• 2014 - Kostya Kennedy, for Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
• 2015 - Charles Leerhsen, for Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

See also

• Jerry Malloy Book Prize (SABR)
• Seymour Medal (SABR)
• Baseball America#Best baseball books
• Baseball awards#Baseball book of the year
• Category:Baseball books
• List of literary awards#Sports

References

1. "Phil S. Dixon: The Legacy of the Negro Leagues". Wolfman Productions, Inc. Retrieved 2011-10-22. Dixon, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, ... [is] the great-great-nephew of former United States Senator Blanch Kelso Bruce.

External links

• Casey Award. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine website.
• Casey Award Winners by Spitball Magazine. Baseball Almanac.
• The Casey Award. Roy Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf.

Further reading

• McEntegart, Pete; Wertheim, L. Jon; Menez, Gene; Bechtel, Mark (December 16, 2002). "SI's "The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time"". CNN/Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2011-02-11.