SCD columnist remembers Robert Creamer, the famed author who didn’t realize the value and importance of his own work. Read how a stop at a fundraiser led to a lasting relationship. Read More
For some old-fashioned baseball fun and some great discussion regarding the National Pastime, check out the CASEY Awards, which honor the best baseball books of the previous year. The 2012 winner was “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” by Paul Dickson. Read More
After SCD released its list of the best baseball books of 2012, the CASEY Award for the year’s best baseball book by Spitball Magazine, a literary baseball magazine, is “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick.” Read More
In the 1910s, many American readers were enthralled by the story of a fantasy ballplayer and the letters he wrote to a friend describing his life in the minor leagues and his push to make it to the big stage. Read More
The N.Y. Times best-sellers list is something all authors strive to make. A fair number of baseball books have been a part of the list, especially in the last dozen years. Some you’d expect; others will surprise. See how many of them you have read. Read More
The in the 1950s, the Dodgers were the classiest of clubs on and off the field. Part of the reason behind that was the club’s model of playing the game correctly, something they called The Dodger Way. Soon, the “way” was penned into a popular book that still resonates today. Read More
The Baseball Reliquary will be presenting an exhibit titled “Baseball by the Books” at the Pasadena Central Library in Pasadena, Calif., throughout the month of July that will feature some fo the most popular books based on the most popular sport. Read More
