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CASEY Award
The Casey Award has been given to the best baseball 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, for '' Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers'' *1985 – Roger Kahn, for ''Good Enough to Dream'' *1986 – Bill James, for ''The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract'' *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 – Bruce Kuklick, 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 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lewis (author)
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 is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance. Lewis was born in New Orleans and attended Princeton University, from which he graduated with a degree in art history. After attending the London School of Economics, he began a career on Wall Street during the 1980s as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers. The experience prompted him to write his first book, ''Liar's Poker'' (1989). Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote '' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'' (2003), in which he investigated the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics. His 2006 book '' The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game'' was his first to be adapted into a film, '' The Blind Side'' (2009). In 2010, he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Malloy Book Prize
The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball primarily through the use of statistics. Established in Cooperstown, New York, on August 10, 1971, by sportswriter Bob Davids, it is based in Phoenix, Arizona. Its membership as of June 1, 2019, is 5,367. Membership While the acronym "SABR" was used to coin the word sabermetrics (for the use of sophisticated mathematical tools to analyze baseball), the Society is about much more than statistics. Well-known figures in the baseball world such as Bob Costas, Keith Olbermann, Craig R. Wright, and Rollie Hemond are members, along with highly regarded "sabermetricians" such as Bill James and Rob Neyer. Among Major League players Jeff Bajenaru was believed to have been (until 2006) the only active player with a SABR membership; Elden Auker, Larry Dierker, and Andy Seminick also have been involved. Some promin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. He was National Baseball Editor for SB Nation from 2011 to 2014, and Senior Baseball Editor for FoxSports.com in 2015 and '16. Biography Rob Neyer lived in the Kansas City area as a child and attended the University of Kansas After dropping out of college, he was soon hired as a research assistant by Bill James. After four years with James, Neyer took a job at STATS, before joining ESPNet SportsZone, ESPN.com's forerunner, in 1996. Since May 2018, Neyer has served as Commissioner of the West Coast League, a collegiate summer baseball league based in the Pacific Northwest. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Writing career Neyer wrote for ESPN for 15 years from 1996 to January 2011. He joined SB Nation as its National Baseball Editor in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Collision Of The Turbulent Sixties And The Los Angeles Dodgers
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Leahy (author)
Michael Leahy (born January 28, 1953) is an American author and award-winning writer for ''The Washington Post'' and '' The Washington Post Magazine''. He is best known for his latest non-fiction book '' The Last Innocents'', which examines the tumultuous political and social change of the 1960s through the lens of the era's legendary Los Angeles Dodgers. Leahy has also earned recognition for his 2004 book '' When Nothing Else Matters'', which chronicles basketball superstar Michael Jordan's last comeback to the NBA. Leahy's stories have also been selected for the 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 editions of The Best American Sports Writing anthologies. His first book '' Hard Lessons'' follows the lives of six Beverly Hills High School students, class of 1986, and deals with the challenges and anxieties of teenage life in modern America. Early life Leahy was born in Newark, New Jersey. At age 10, he moved with his family to a suburb of Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dickson (writer)
Paul Dickson (born July 30,1939) is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language, history, and popular culture. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club. Dickson coined the term "'' word word''". For his published work on baseball, ''The Washington Post'' has described Dickson as "baseball's answer to Noah Webster or, at the very least, William Safire." In May 1979, he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote his book ''The Official Rules'', which detailed the history of Murphy's Law and similar aphorisms. Carson and Dickson spent time sharing similar sayings that they enjoyed. Early life Paul Andrew Dickson was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of William A. Dickson Jr. and the former Isabelle Cornell. His father was a bank executive who served as president of the Yonkers Savings Bank and the Manhattan Savings Bank. His mother was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 joining ''SI'', Kennedy was a staff writer at '' Newsday'' and contributed to ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Yorker''. Biography Originally from Great Neck, New York, Kennedy graduated with a BA in Philosophy from Stony Brook University in 1990 and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1992, where he was awarded the distinctive Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Career As editorial director of Dotdash Meredith Premium Publishing, Kennedy oversees special editions across a wide range of subject areas under numerous brands. These include ''LIFE'', ''People'', ''EatingWell'', ''Real Simple'', ''Entertainment Weekly'' and ''Health'', as well as editions created with partners including the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 reporter at ''The Boston Globe'', where his primary beat was medicine. He also served as the ''Globe's'' environmental reporter, roving national writer, investigative reporter and sports writer. Before that, he was the environmental reporter at ''The Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, Kentucky, and covered government and business at ''The Anniston Star'' in Anniston, Alabama. Tye was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993–1994 and has won a series of major newspaper awards, including the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Journalism. Two of Tye's books, one on the Pullman porters and another on electroconvulsive therapy, have been adapted into documentary films. Sony and Hulu are maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 focused on African-American culture and history. ''The New York Times'' describes his work as: "sumptuous, deeply affecting work. Nelson’s paintings are drenched in ambience, and often overt symbolism. He has twice been a Caldecott honor recipient and won the 2020 Caldecott Medal for his book ''The Undefeated''. Career In 1996, Nelson began his career as a conceptual artist for Steven Spielberg's feature film '' Amistad'', and the animated feature film '' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron''. Nelson has since designed several commemorative postage stamps for the United States Postal Service including stamps featuring Wilt Chamberlain, Joe Dimaggio, and Richard Wright. He has also authored and/or illustrated over 30 picture books including, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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'', he currently writes for his personal blog ''JoeBlogs''. Early life Posnanski grew up in South Euclid, Ohio and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina during high school. He studied accounting, but later switched his major to English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Journalism Posnanski began his journalism career as a multi-use reporter and an editor at ''The Charlotte Observer''. He worked as a columnist at ''The Cincinnati Post'', ''The Augusta Chronicle'', and ''The Kansas City Star''. He was a senior writer for ''Sports Illustrated'' until April 2012 when he announced that he would work for Sports on Earth, a new internet joint venture between ''USA Today'' and Major League Baseball Advanced Media. His first column for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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