CASEY Award

Since 1983, the CASEY Award has been given to the best baseball book of the year. The honor was begun by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of “Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine.”

CASEY Award Recipients

2007 Joe Posnanski for “The Soul of Baseball”

2006 Peter Morris for “Game of Inches”

2005 Jonathan Eig for “Luckiest Man”

2004 Leigh Montville for “Ted Williams”

2003 Michael Lewis for “Moneyball”

2002 Howard Bryant for “Shut Out”

2001 Tom Stanton for “The Final Season”

2000 Reed Browning for “Cy Young”

1999 Neal Karlen for “Slouching Toward Fargo”

1998 David Pietruszka for “Judge and Jury”

1997 Thomas Dyja for “Play for a Kingdom”

1996 Marty Appel for “Slide, Kelly, Slide”

1995 Henry W. Thomas for “Walter Johnson”

1994 John Helyar for “Lords of the Realm”

1993 Michael Gershman for “Diamonds”

1992 Phil Dixon for “The Negro Baseball Leagues”

1991 Bruce Kukllick for “To Everything a Season”

1990 Harold Seymour for “Baseball: The People’s Game”

1989 Mike Sowell for “The Pitch That Killed”

1988 John Holway for “Blackball Stars”

1987 Peter H. Gordon for “Diamonds Are Forever”

1986 Bill James for “The Bill James Historical Abstract”

1985 Roger Kahn for “Good Enough to Dream”

1984 Peter Golenbock for “Bums”

1983 Eric Rolfe Greenberg for “The Celebrant”

Sources:

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/spitball/award.html

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/books/bookcasey.shtml

http://rksbaseballbookshelf.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/the-casey-award/