Casey Award Archives

Previous Casey Award Nominees

1983 CASEY Winner: The Celebrant * Greenberg (Everest House)

1983 Nominees
Baseball's Great Experiment * Jules Tygiel (Oxford University Press)
Hoopla * Harry Stein (Knopf)
Invisible Men * Donn Rogosin (Atheneum)
Insider's Baseball * L. Robert Davids, ed. (Scribners)
Take Me Out to the Ballpark * Lowell Reidenbaugh (The Sporting News)
Who's on 3rd? The Chicago White Sox Story * Richard Lindberg (Icarus

Press)

1984 CASEY Winner: Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers * Peter Golenbock (Putnams)

1984 Nominees
Baseball * Walter Iooss Jr. & Roger Angell (Abrams)
Dollar Sign on the Muscle * Kevin Kerrane (Beaufort Books)
Mighty Casey: All American * Eugene Murdock (Greenwood Press)
Stengel: His Life and Times * Robert Creamer (Simon & Schuster)
Ty Cobb * Charles C. Alexander (Oxford University Press)

1985 CASEY Winner: Good Enough to Dream * Roger Kahn (Doubleday)

1985 Nominees
The Armchair Book of Baseball * John Thorn, ed. (Scribners)
Bambi's Bombers * Don Olson (Noslo Publishing)
Baseball America * Donald Honig (Macmillan)
Baseball's Best * Dave Masterson & Timm Boyle (Contemporary Books)
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons * Donald Hall (North Point Press)
Nine Innings * Daniel Okrent (Ticknor & Fields)
The Thrill of the Grass * W.P. Kinsella (Penguin)
Topps Baseball Cards * (Warner Books)

1986 CASEY Winner: The Bill James Historical Abstract * Bill James (Villard Books)

1986 Nominees
Baseball: A Comprehensive Bibliography * Myron J. Smith Jr. (McFarland)
A Baseball Winter * Terry Pluto & Jeffrey Neuman (Macmillan)
Heart of the Order * Tony Ardizzone (Henry Holt)
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy * W.P. Kinsella (Houghton Mifflin)
Joe DiMaggio: A Bio-Bibliography * Jack B. Moore (Greenwood Press)
Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love * Roger Kahn (Morrow)
The Short Season * David Falkner (Times Boos)

1987 Casey Winner: Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball * Peter H. Gordon, ed. (Chronicle Books)

1987 Nominees:
Baseball: An Illustrated History * David Q. Voit (Pennsylvania State

University Press)

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch * George Plimpton (Macmillan)
The Dodgers Move West * Neil Sullivan (Oxford University Press)
The Fireside Book of Baseball, Vol. 4 * Charles Einstein, ed. (Simon &

Schuster)

A Flatland Fable * Joe Coomer (McGraw-Hill)
Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner * Bowie Kuhn (Times

Books)

The Pitcher * John Thorn & John Holway (Prentice Hall)
Sixty-One: The Team, The Record, The Men * Tony Kubek (Macmillan)
Voices of the Game * Curt Smith (Diamond Communications)

1988 Casey Winner: Blackball Stars * John Holway (Meckler)

1988 Nominees:
The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book * Gerald Astor, ed.

(Prentice Hall)

Bleachers * Lonnie Wheeler (Contemporary Books)
The Cincinnati Game * Lonnie Wheeler & John Baskin (Orange Fraser Press)
My Dad, the Babe * Dorothy Ruth Pirone (Quinlan Press)
The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt * W.P. Kinsella (Houghton

Mifflin)

The Giants of the Polo Grounds * Noel Hynd (Doubleday)
John McGraw * Charles Alexander (Viking)
Season Ticket * Roger Angell (Houghton Mifflin)
Winfied * Dave Winfield (W.W. Norton)

1989 Casey Winner: The Pitch that Killed * Mike Sowell (Macmillan)

1989 Nominees:
The Babe: A Life in Pictures * Lawrence Ritter & Mark Rucker (Ticknor &

Fields)

Baseball Lives * Mike Bryan (Pantheon)
Diamonds in the Rough * Joel Zoss & John Bowman (Macmillan)
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary * Paul Dickson (Facts on File)
El Beisbol * John Krich (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life * Hank Greenberg (Times Books)
The Heart of the Order * Tom Boswell (Doubleday)
Total Baseball * John Thorn & Pete Palmer, eds. (Warner Books)
You Gotta Have Wa * Robert Whiting (Macmillan)

1990 Casey Winner: Baseball: The People’s Game * Harold Seymour (Oxford University Press)

1990 Nominees:
The Art of Baseball * Shelley M. Dinhofer (Harmony)
The Ballplayers * Mike Shatzkin (Morrow)
The Baseball Business * James E. Miller (University of North Carolina Press)
Big Sticks * William Curran (Morrow)
Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose * Michael Sokolove (Simon &

Schuster)

If I Never Get Back * Darryl Brock (Crown)
Men at Work * George Will (Macmillan)
Prophet of the Sandlots * Mark Winegardner (Atlantic Monthly Press)

1991 Casey Winner: To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909- 1976 * Bruce Kuklick (Princeton University Press)

1991 Nominees:
Baseball by the Books *Andy McCue (William C. Brown)
Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century * Marc Okkonen (Sterling)
Blue Ruin: A Novel of the 1919 World Series * Brendan Boyd (W.W. Norton)
Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth-Century World Series Rediscovered *

Jerry Lansche (Taylor)

I Had a Hammer * Hank Aaron w/Lonnie Wheeler (HarperCollins)
Nolan Ryan: The Authorized Pictorial History (The Summit Group)
Stolen Season * David Lamb (Random House)
Tales of the Diamonds: Gems of Baseball Fiction (Woodford Press)
Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures * Dick Johnson & Glenn

Stout (Walker & Co.)

1992 Casey Winner: The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History * Phil Dixon w/Patrick J. Hannigan (Amereon House)

1992 Nominees:
Baseball in the Movies * Hal Erickson (McFarland)
The Brothers K * David James Duncan (Doubleday)
The Cleveland Indian * Luke Salisbury (The Smith)
Diz * Robert Gregory (Viking Penguin)
Fenway * Peter Golenbock (Putnams)
The Girls of Summer * Lois Browns (HarperCollins)
Lost Ballparks * Lawrence Ritter (Viking Penguin)
Queen of Diamonds: The Tiger Stadium Story * Mike Betzold & Ethan

Casey (A&M Publishing)

When the Game Was Black & White: The Illustrated History of Baseball’s

Negro Leagues * Bruce Chadwick (Abbeville Press)

1993 Casey Winner: Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark * Michael Gershman(Houghton Mifflin)

1993 Nominees:
Baseball’s Golden Age: The Photos of Charles M. Conlon * Neal & Constance McCabe (Abrams)
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball * Lloyd Johnson, ed. (Baseball

America)

Fridays with Red * Bob Edwards (Simon & Schuster)
Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams * Ed Linn (Harcourt Brace)
The Lip: A Biography of Leo Durocher * Gerald Eskenazi (Morrow)
The Museum of Clear Ideas * Donald Hall (Ticknor & Fields)
My Life as a Fan * Wilfred Sheed (Simon & Schuster)
The New Phillies Encyclopedia * Rich Westcott & Frank Bilovsky (Temple

University Press)

Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball * Barbara Gregorich

(Harcourt Brace)

1994 Casey Winner: Lords of the Realm * John Helyar (Villard Books)

1994 Nominees:
Baseball: An Illustrated History * Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns (Knopf)
The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Leagues * James A. Riley

(Carroll & Graf)

Brittle Innings * Michael Bishop (Bantam)
The Catcher Was a Spy * Nicholas Dawidoff (Pantheon)
Cobb * Al Stump (Algonquin Books)
Hardball * Daniel Coyle (Putnams)
Inside the Strike Zone * Randall A. Hendricks (Eakin Press)
October 1964 * David Halberstam (Villard)
The Politics of Glory * Bill James (Macmillan)

1995 Casey Winner: Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train * Henry W. Thomas (Phenom)

1995 Nominees:
Banana Bats and Dingdong Balls: A Century of Baseball Inventions * Dan

Gutman (Macmillan)

Card Sharks * Pete Williams (Macmillan)
Crosley Field: An Illustrated History of a Classic Ballpark * Greg Rhodes &

John Erardi(Road West Publishing)

The Cutoff * Jay Rogoff (The Word Works)
The Dixon Cornbelt League * W.P. Kinsella (HarperCollins)
Endless Summers: The Fall and Rise of the Cleveland Indians * Jack Torry

(Diamond Communications)

Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart * David Zang (University of Nebraska Press)
Great Time Coming * David Falkner (Simon & Schuster)
Rogers Hornsby * Charles Alexander (Henry Holt)
Waterloo Diamonds * Richard Panek (St. Martin’s Press)
Wild and Outside * Stefan Fatsis (Walker and Company)

1996 Casey Winner: Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike “King” Kelly, Baseball’s First Superstar * Marty Appel (Scarecrow Press)

1996 Nominees:
At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation * Dan Shaughnessy (Crown)
The Game that Was: The George Brace Baseball Photo Collection * Richard

Cahan & Mark Jacob (Contemporary Books)

Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait * Rachel Robinson w/Lee Daniels

(Abrams)

The Joy of Keeping Score * Paul Dickson (Walker and Company)
Seasons in Hell: … -The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers * Mike Shropshire

(Donald I. Fine)

The Veracruz Blues * Mark Winegardner (Viking)
Wrigleyville * Peter Golenbock (St. Martin’s Press)

1997 Casey Winner: Play for a Kingdom * Thomas Dyja (Harcourt Brace)

1997 Nominees:
Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos * Alan Klein (Princeton

University Press)

Baseball Records Registry: Joseph J. Dittmar (McFarland)
Big Red Dynasty * Greg Rhodes & John Erardi (Road West Publishing)
The Great Encyclopedia of 19th Century Major League Baseball * David

Nemec (Donald I. Fine)

Jackie Robinson: A Biography * Arnold Rampersad (Knopf)
Lights On! The Wild Century-Long Saga of Night Baseball * David Pietrusza

(The Scarecrow Press)

Memories of Summer * Roger Kahn (Hyperion)
Tony C.: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tony Conigliaro * David Cataneo

(Rutledge Hill Press)

Warsaw to Wrigley * Joseph A. Reaves (Diamond Communication)

1998 Casey Winner: Judge & Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis * David Pietrusza (Diamond Communications)

1998: Nominees:
If They Don’t Win It’s a Shame * Dave Rosenbaum (McGregor Publishing)
Jim Bunning: Baseball and Beyond * Frank Dolson (Temple University Press)
Mickey Mantle: The Yankee Years: The Classic Photography pf Ozzie

Sweet * Larry Canale (Tuff Stuff Books)

A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium * Richard Bak

(Wayne State University Press)

The Ripening of Pinstripes * Rodney Torreson (Story Line Press)
Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame * John Thorn (Villard)
Viva Baseball: Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger * Samuel O.

Regalado (University of Illinois Press)

When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-

1870 * William J. Ryczek (McFarland)

Yankee Stadium: 75 Years of Drama, Glamor, and Glory * Ray Robinson &

Christopher Jennison (Penguin/Studio)

1999 Casey Winner: Slouching Toward Fargo * Neal Karlen (Spike)

1999 Nominees:
Baseball’s Pivotal Era 1945-1951 * William Marshall (The University of

Kentucky Press)

Brushing Back Jim Crow * Bruce Adelson (University Press of Virginia)
A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward *

Bryan Di Salvatore (Pantheon)

Our Tribe * Terry Pluto (Simon & Schuster)
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball * Robert Gonzalez

Echevarria (Oxford University Press)

A Six-Gun Salute: An Illustrated History of the Houston Colt .45s * Robert

Reed (Lone Star Books)

Smoke: The Romance and Lore of Cuban Baseball * Mark Rucker & Peter

Bjarkman (Total/Sports Illustrated)

Take Two and Hit to Right: Golden Days on the Semi-Pro Diamond * Hobe

Hays (University of Nebraska Press)

Those Damn Yankees * Dean Chadwin (Verso)
Where They Ain’t: The Fabled Life … of the Original Baltimore Orioles * Burt

Solomon (The Free Press)

2000 Casey Winner: Cy Young: A Baseball Life * Reed Browning (The University of Massachusetts Press)

2000 Nominees:
Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball * Milton H. Jamail (Southern Illinois

University Press)

Havana Heat * Darryl Brock (Total Sports Publishing)
The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher’s Mound * Roger Kahn

(Harcourt)

Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture * David

McGimpsey (Indiana University Press)

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life * Richard Ben Cramer (Simon & Schuster)
Lefty Grove: American Original * Jim Kaplan (Society for American Baseball

Research)

Perfect Silence * Jeff Hutton (Breakaway Books)
Red Sox Century: One Hundred Years of Red Sox Baseball * Glenn Stout &

Richard A. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin)

Touching All the Bases: Poems from Baseball * Tim Peeler (McFarland)

2001 Casey Winner: The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark * Tom Stanton (Thomas Dunne Books)

2001 Nominees:
Bushville: Life and Times in Amateur Baseball * Jerry Kelly (McFarland)
The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American

Dream * Steve Fainaru & Ray Sanchez (Villard)

Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball * James P.

Quigel Jr. & Louis E. Hunsinger Jr. (Pennsylvania State University Press)

Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball’s Biggest

Crook * Martin Donell Kohout (McFarland)

Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck * Pat

Williams (Sports Publishing Inc.)

Musial: From Stash to the Man * James N. Giglio (University of Missouri

Press)

Now Pitching for the Yankees: Spinning the News for Mickey, Billy, and

George * Marty Appel (Total Sports Publishing)

The Oldest Rookie: Big League Dreams from a Small-town Guy * Jim Morris

& Joel Engel (Little, Brown and Company)

Redleg Journal: Year by Year and Day by Day with the Cincinnati Reds

Since 1866 * Greg Rhodes & John Snyder (Road West Publishing)

2002 Casey Winner: Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston * Howard Bryant (Routledge)

2002 Nominees:
Barry Bonds: Baseball’s Superman * Steven Travers (Sports Publishing,

LLC)

Baseball’s Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus * John Theodore (Southern

Illinois University Press)

Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-

1953 * Larry Lester (University of Nebraska Press)

Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era * Charles Alexander

(Columbia University Press)

A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939 * Richard J. Tofel

(Ivan R. Dee)

Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian * David L. Fleitz (McFarland)
Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal Son * Tony Castro (Brassey’s, Inc.)
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy * Jane Leavy (HarperCollins)
Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball * Glenn Stout

& Richard A. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin)

2003 Casey Winner: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game * Michael Lewis (Norton)

2003 Nominees:
Beyond the Shadow of the Senators * Brad Snyder (Contemporary Books)
Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark * Jim

Bouton (Bulldog Publishing)

Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove *

Noah Liberman (Triumph Books)

Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir * Paul O’Neill w/Burton Rocks (Morrow)
The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball * Elizabeth V. Warren

(Abrams)

The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a

Lifetime * Tom Stanton (St. Martin’s)

Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball,

1903-2003 * Henry D. Fetter (Norton)

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship * David Halberstam (Hyperion)
The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball’s 1913-

1914 World Tour * James E. Elfers (University of Nebraska Press)

2004 Casey Winner:
Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero * Leigh Montville (Doubleday)

2004 Nominees:
The Bad Guys Won! * Jeff Pearlman (HarperCollins)
The College World Series: A Baseball History 1947-2003 * W.C. Madden &

Patrick J. Stewart (McFarland)

History of the Junior World Series * Bob Bailey (Scarecrow Press)
Joe: Rounding Third and Heading for Home * Greg Hoard (Orange Frazer

Press)

The Last Best League * Jim Collins (Da Capo Press)
The Last Night of the Yankees Dynasty * Buster Olney (Ecco)
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution * Neil

Lanctot (University of Pennsylvania Press)

The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination with Statistics * Alan

Schwarz (Thomas Dunne Books)

The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw * Michael

Sokolove (Simon & Schuster)

2005 Casey Winner: Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig * Jonathan Eig(Simon & Schuster)

2005 Nominees:
Baseball Before We Knew It * David Block (University of Nebraska Press)
The Boys of Spring: Timeless Portraits from the Grapefruit League, 1947-

2005 * Ozzie Sweet (Sport Classic Books)

Daimonds Around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball *

Peter C. Bjarkman (Greenwood Press)

Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major

League Baseball * Howard Bryant (Viking Penguin)

Now I Can Die in Peace: How the ESPN’s Sports Guy … * Bill Simmons

(ESPN Books)

Satchel Paige’s America * William Price Fox (The University of Alabama

Press)

Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World’s Finest Private Collections *

Stephen Wong (HarperCollins)

A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry and the War for

the Pennant * Tony Massarotti & John Harper (The Lyons Press)

3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a

Manager * Buzz Bissinger (Houghton Mifflin)

2006 Casey Winner: A Game of Inches: The Game on the Field and The Game Behind the Scenes * Peter Morris (Ivan R. Dee)

2006 Nominees:
Baseball * David Levinthal (Empire Editions)
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth * Leigh Montville

(Doubleday)

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero * David Maraniss

(Simon & Schuster)

The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and

the Shot Heard Round the World * Joshua Prager (Pantheon)

Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball’s Lunatic Fringe * Sam Walker (Viking)
Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation *

William C. Kashatus (Pennsylvania State University Press)

Sayonara Home Run! The Art of the Japanese Baseball Card * John Gall &

Gary Engel (Chronicle Books)

Spalding’s World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the

Globe * Mark Lamster (Public Affairs)

A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional

Sports * Brad Snyder (Viking)

2007 Casey Winner: The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America * Joe Posnanski (Morrow)

2007 Nominees:
The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees: October 13, 1960 * Jim Reisler

(Da Capo Press)

Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman * Lee Lowenfish (University

of Nebraska Press)

Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball * Norman L. Macht

(University of Nebraska Press)

Crazy ’08 * Cait Murphy (HarperCollins)
Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped

Baseball * Peter Morris (University of Nebraska Press)

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season * Jonathan Eig

(Simon & Schuster)

Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball * Dan

Shaughnessy (Houghton Mifflin)

Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodgers Photographs of Barney Stein,

1937-1957 * Dennis D’Agostino & Bonnie Crosby (Triumph Books)

Ty and the Babe * Tom Stanton (Thomas Dunne Books)

2008 Casey Winner: We Are the Ship * Kadir Nelson (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

2008 Nominees:
Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies * William C.

Kashatus (University of Pennsylvania Press)

Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Neil Leifer * Neil Leifer (Taschen)
Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”

* Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson, & Tim Wiles (Hal Leonard)

Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field * John

Hanley & Chris De Luca (Cumberland House)

Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees’ First Dynasty *

Daniel K. Levitt (University of Nebraska Press)

Hammer’ Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that

Changed Baseball Forever * John Rosengren (Sourcebooks)

Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to

Remember * John Feinstein (Little Brown)

Red Sox Threads * Bill Nowlin (Rounder Books)
101 Places to Visit Before You Strike Out * Josh Pahigian (The Lyons

Press)

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