Casey Award Winners by Spitball Magazine on Baseball Almanac

Casey Award Winners by Spitball Magazine

John Tollus might not have won a Casey Award in 1986 (read the quote above), but he truly did put the writing of a baseball book into a unique perspective. Spitball magazine takes that perspective into account along with MANY other variables when determining their annual award winners for Book of the Year.

Baseball Almanac is pleased & honored to present a comprehensive list of those winners. Starting with the first year the award was issued (1983) through the most recent year. Included in the list is the author and a link for you to examine / purchase the book from Amazon.

"You will find many exaggerations, inconsistencies, stretched truths, and, yes, downright lies in this book. Such is human memory. Facts stream into our memory banks, and when we try to make a withdraw some years later, we often find ourselves shortchanged. But something is gained from this loss of memory, for along with these transmogrified facts comes a deeper knowledge, a cured, metamorphosed truth, more accurate than fact, more revealing then the damn score." - John Tollus in I'd Rather be a Yankee (1986)

Casey Award Winners by Spitball Magazine Book of the Year Award
Year	Casey Award Winner
1983	The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
1984	Bums by Peter Golenbock
1985	Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn
1986	Historical Abstract by Bill James
1987	Diamonds Are Forever by Paul M. Sommers
1988	Blackball Stars by John B. Holway
1989	The Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell
1990	The People's Game by Harold Seymour
1991	To Everything A Season by Bruce Kuklick
1992	Negro Leagues: A History by Phil Dixon
1993	The Evolution of the Ballpark by Michael Gershman
1994	Lords of the Realm by John Helyar
1995	Walter Johnson by Henry W. Thomas
1996	Slide, Kelly, Slide by Marty Appel
1997	Play for a Kingdom by Thomas Dyja
1998	Judge & Jury: K.M. Landis by David Pietrusza
1999	Slouching Towards Fargo by Neal Karlen
2000	Cy Young by Reed Browning
2001	The Final Season by Tom Stanton
2002	Shut Out by Howard Bryant
2003	Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Year	Casey Award Winner
Spitball Casey Award Winners

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Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine recently announced that the following books have been selected as finalists for the 2003 Casey Award — which will be presented at the 21st annual Casey Awards Banquet on February 29, 2004:

• Beyond the Shadow of the Senators
• Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark
• Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove
• Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
• The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball
• The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime
• Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball
• The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
• The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour

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