Previous Casey Award Winners

1983-The Celebrant -Eric Rolfe Greenberg- Everest House
1984-Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers -Peter Golenbock-       Putnams
1985-Good Enough to Dream -Roger Kahn- Doubleday
1986-The Bill James Historical Abstract -Bill James- Villard
1987-Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball -Peter H.        Gordon, Editor- Chronicle Books
1988-Blackball Stars -John Holway- Meckler
1989-The Pitch that Killed -Mike Sowell- Macmillan
1990-Baseball: The People’s Game -Harold Seymour- Oxford University        Press
1991-To Everything A Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia,1909-       1976 -Bruce Kuklick- Princeton University Press
1992-The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History -Phil Dixon-       Amereon
1993-Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark -Michael Gershman-       Houghton Mifflin
1994-Lords of the Realm -John Helyar- Villard
1995-Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train -Henry W. Thomas- Phenom        Press
1996-Slide, Kelly, Slide -Marty Appel- Scarecrow Press
1997-Play for a Kingdom -Thomas Dyja- Harcourt Brace
1998-Judge and Jury -David Pietrusza- Diamond Communications
1999-Slouching Toward Fargo -Neal Karlen- Spike
2000-Cy Young: A Baseball Life -Reed Browning- The University of        Massachusetts Press
2001-The Final Season -Tom Stanton- Thomas Dunne Books
2002-Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston -Howard Bryant-       Routledge
2003-Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game -Michael Lewis-       W.W.Norton
2004-Ted Williams: The Life of an American Hero -Leigh Montville-       Doubleday
2005-Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig -Jonathan Eig-       Simon & Schuster
2006-Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations that Shaped        Baseball -Peter Morris- Ivan R. Dee
2007-The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America -Joe        Posnanski- William Morrow