Eliot Asinof (1919–2008)

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1. Roger Angell

   Author of The Summer Game, Season Ticket, Game Time: A Baseball Companion

2. Roger Kahn

   Author of The Boys of Summer, Good Enough to Dream, Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing About It a Game

3. Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)

   Author of The Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 34, The Baseball Research Journal (BRJ), Volume 27, The National Pastime, Volume 15: A Review of Baseball History (National Pastime)

4. Thomas Boswell

   Author of Why Time Begins on Opening Day, The Heart of the Order (Penguin Sports Library), How Life Imitates the World Series (The Penguin sports library)

5. David Halberstam

   Author of Summer of '49, The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship, October 1964

6. Robert W. Creamer

   Author of Babe: The Legend Comes to Life, Stengel: His Life and Times

7. Bill James

   Author of The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

8. W. P. Kinsella

   Author of Shoeless Joe, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

9. Harold Seymour

   Author of Baseball: The Golden Age (Oxford Paperbacks), Baseball: The Early Years (Oxford Paperbacks)

10. George F. Will

    Author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, Bunts: Curt Flood Camden Yards Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball

11. Lawrence S. Ritter

    Author of The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

12. Jim Bouton

    Author of Ball Four, I'm Glad You Didn't Take It Personally

13. Charles C. Alexander

    Author of Ty Cobb

14. Bill Veeck

    Author of Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

15. Daniel Okrent

    Author of Nine Innings

16. Cait Murphy

    Author of Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History

17. Mike Sowell

    Author of The Pitch That Killed

18. Philip J. Lowry

    Author of Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of All Major League Ballparks

19. Macmillan Publishing

    Author of The Baseball Encyclopedia

20. Al Stump

    Author of Cobb: A Biography