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Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine (founded 1981) has announced the Finalists for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.
The Finalists are:
The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski (published by Avid Reader Press);
The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues by Lonnie Wheeler (Abrams Press);
The Bronx Zoom: Inside the New York Yankees’ Most Bizarre Season by Bryan Hoch (Triumph Books);
Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing by Andy Martino (Doubleday);
Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood by Dave Parker and Dave Jordan (University of Nebraska Press);
Escape from Castro’s Cuba by Tim Wendel (University of Nebraska Press);
Forty Years a Giant: The Life of Horace Stoneham by Steven Treder (University of Nebraska Press);
Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball by Dan Taylor (Rowman & Littlefield); and
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin (Flatiron Books).
Spitball Editor-in-Chief Mike Shannon had this to say about the nine books selected for the honor: “As usual, this is an impressive list of titles which reflects the inexhaustibility of baseball as a subject that continues to engage the brightest minds and most talented writers. No serious fan of the National Pastime would want to be without all of these books, each of which makes a notable contribution to the vast, rich field of baseball literature. We don’t envy the Judges who must determine which of the nine makes the ‘greatest’ contribution, and we are grateful for their service. We also congratulate all nine authors and their publishers, and wish each the best of luck in the competition. Finally, we thank all the publishers who participated in the 39th annual CASEY Award competition by sending in review copies of the baseball books they published in 2021, and we congratulate the all the authors whose name appeared on a new baseball book in 2021.”
The 39th annual CASEY Awards ceremony will take place in early March 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Judges for the 2021 CASEY Award are: Kostya Kennedy, Rob Langenderfer, and Larry Phillips.
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