The Casey Award has been given to the best

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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 Peter Golenbock (born July 19, 1946) is an American author. He is noted for his many books about baseball and other sports. Many of his books have been bestsellers. Career Golenbock initially worked as a lawyer for Prentice Hall, a publishing hou ...

, for '' Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers'' *1985 – Roger Kahn, for ''Good Enough to Dream'' *1986 – Bill James, for ''

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'' *1987 – Peter H. Gordon, for ''Diamonds Are Forever'' *1988 – John Holway, for ''Blackball Stars'' *1989 – Mike Sowell, for ''The Pitch That Killed'' *1990 – , for ''Baseball: The People’s Game'' *1991 –

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, for ''To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976'' *1992 – Phil S. Dixon, for ''The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History'' *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 Martin E. Appel (born August 7, 1948), is an American public relations and sports management executive, television executive producer, and author. Appel's career has included sports public relations (including as Public Relations Director for ...

, for ''Slide, Kelly, Slide'' *1997 – Thomas Dyja, for ''Play for a Kingdom'' *1998 –

David Pietrusza David Pietrusza (born November 22, 1949 in Amsterdam, New York) is an American author and historian. Career David Pietrusza has produced a number of critically acclaimed works concerning 20th-century American history, including five volumes ( ...

, for ''Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis'' *1999 –

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, for ''Slouching Toward Fargo'' *2000 – Reed Browning, for ''Cy Young: A Baseball Life'' *2001 –

Tom Stanton Tom Stanton (born December 17, 1960 in Warren, Michigan) is the author of several nonfiction books, including two memoirs. In 1983, Stanton, a journalist, co-founded ''The Voice Newspapers'' in suburban Detroit and served as editor for sixteen ...

, for ''The Final Season'' *2002 –

Howard Bryant Howard "Howie" Bryant (born November 25, 1968) is a sports journalist, and radio and television personality. He writes weekly columns for ESPN.com and ''ESPN The Magazine'', ESPN, and appears regularly on ESPN Radio. He is a frequent panelist o ...

, for ''Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston'' *2003 –

Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context. is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to ''Vanity Fair'' since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He ...

, for '' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'' *2004 –

Leigh Montville Leigh Montville (born July 20, 1943) is an American writer and former newspaper columnist who worked for ''The Boston Globe'' and ''Sports Illustrated''. Early life and education Montville was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from th ...

, for ''Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero'' *2005 –

Jonathan Eig Jonathan Eig (born April 26, 1964) is an American journalist and biographer and the author of five books. His most recent book, ''Ali: A Life'', is a biography of Muhammad Ali. Biography Eig was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Monsey, N ...

, for ''Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig'' *2006 – Peter Morris, for ''Game of Inches'' *2007 –

Joe Posnanski Joe Posnanski (; nicknamed "Poz" and "Joe Po"; born January 8, 1967) is an American sports journalist. A former senior columnist for ''Sports Illustrated'' (where he wrote the blog Curiously Long Posts) and columnist for ''The Kansas City Star'', ...

, for '' The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America'' *2008 –

Kadir Nelson Kadir Nelson (May 15, 1974) is a Los Angeles–based painter, illustrator, and author who is best known for his paintings often featured on the covers of ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and album covers for Michael Jackson and Drake. His work is foc ...

, for ''We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball'' *2009 –

Larry Tye Larry Tye is an American non-fiction author and journalist known for his biographies of notable Americans including Edward Bernays (1999) Satchel Paige (2009), Robert F. Kennedy (2016) and Joseph McCarthy (2020). From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a repo ...

, for ''Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend'' *2010 –

, for ''The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron'' *2011 –

Kostya Kennedy Kostya Kennedy is an American journalist and author. He is an editorial director at Dotdash Meredith, and a former senior writer and assistant managing editor at ''Sports Illustrated''. Kennedy has written several-best selling books. Before joinin ...

, 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'' *2016 - Michael Leahy, for '' The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers'' *2017 – Marty Appel, for ''Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character'' *2018 –

Rob Neyer Rob Neyer (born June 22, 1966) is an American baseball writer known for his use of statistical analysis or sabermetrics. He started his career working for Bill James and STATS and then joined ESPN.com as a columnist and blogger from 1996 to 2011. ...

, for ''Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game'' *2019 - Jeremy Beer, for ''Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player'' * 2020 - Thomas Gilbert, for ''How Baseball Happened'' * 2021 –

, for ''The Baseball 100''

References

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. Baseball trophies and awards * * Sports writing awards Awards established in 1983

Casey Award recipients

See also

References

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