Awards in your library

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

• The good soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek (2006/2008 Edition)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• My turn at Bat: the story of my life by Ted Williams (1969)
• Ball four; my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton (1970)
• Clemente! by Kal Wagenheim (1973)
• Breakout : from prison to the big leagues by Ron LeFlore (1978)
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel (1984)
• Jackie Robinson: A Life Remembered by Maury Allen (1987)
• Fireside Book of Baseball by Charles Einstein (1987)
• A Season On The Brink by John Feinstein (1987)
• The Babe: A Life in Pictures (Baseball Ink Book) by Lawrence S. Ritter (1988)
• War Poets by Robert Giddings (1988)
• I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story by Hank Aaron (1992)
• Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey (1996)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• War Poets by Robert Giddings (Poetry, 1999)
• Eight men out; by Eliot Asinof (Non-fiction, 1999)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Non-fiction, 1999)

Amazon's Best Books of the Year: 2009

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (#43)

Ambassador Book Award

• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography/Autobiography, 1995)
• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (American Studies, 2002)

American Book Award

• Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball by Nelson George (1993)

Arthur Ross Book Award

• Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power by Robert Dallek (Honorable mention, 2008)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Silver medal, 2003)

Bancroft Prize

• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (1981)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2009)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Casey at the bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (2000)

Benjamin Barondess Award

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)

Book Sense Book of the Year

• The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker ( Adult Nonfiction Honor Book, 2005)

British Academy Book Prize

• Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw (2001)

Caldecott Honor

• Casey at the bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (2001)

Casey Award

• Bums Oral Hist Bklyn by Peter Golenbock (1984)
• Good enough to dream by Roger Kahn (1985)
• Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James (1986)
• Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball by Smithsonian Institution (1987)
• Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers by John Holway (1988)
• Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell (1989)
• Baseball: The People's Game by Dorothy Z. Seymour (1990)
• To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976 by Bruce Kuklick (1991)
• The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History by Phil Dixon (1992)
• DIAMONDS CL by Michael Gershman (1993)
• Lords of the Realm:: The Real History of Baseball by John Helyar (1994)
• Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train by Henry W. Thomas (1995)
• Slide, Kelly, Slide: The Wild Life and Times of Mike King Kelly (American Sports History Series) by Marty Appel (1996)
• Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by David Pietrusza (1998)
• Cy Young: A Baseball Life by Reed Browning (2000)
• The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark by Tom Stanton (2001)
• Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston by Howard Bryant (2002)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)
• Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville (2004)
• Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig (2005)
• A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball Volume 1: The Game on the Field by Peter Morris (2006)
• A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game Behind the Scenes by Peter Morris (2006)

CBA Libris Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2003)

Charles Taylor Prize finalist

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• American Law in the 20th Century by Lawrence M. Friedman (Nonfiction, Silver, 2002)
• A Diplomatic History of the American People by Thomas A. Bailey (Scholarship, Gold, 1940)

Coretta Scott King Award

• I never had it made by Jackie Robinson (Author, 1973)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Ball four; my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton

Douglas Dillon Book Award

• First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann (2003)

Duff Cooper Prize

• Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead (1956)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2001)

Edgar Award

• To Protect and to Serve: The Lapd's Century of War in the City of Dreams by Joe Domanick (Fact Crime, 1995)

Edgar Award Nominee

• Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza (Fact Crime, 2004)

Eisner Award nominee

• Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front by Todd DePastino (Best Comics-Related Book, 2009)

Fletcher Pratt Award

• The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox : Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers by John C. Waugh (1994)
• Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears (2003)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (Decision-Making)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Investing)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (Power)

Francis Parkman Prize

• EXPLORATION AND EMPIRE (THE EXPLORER AND THE SCIENTIST IN THE WINNING OF THE AMERICAN WEST) (1967)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1975)
• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (1978)
• A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (1990)

George Pendleton Prize

• The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini (2007)

Governor General's Literary Award

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Non-fiction, 2003)

Great Lakes Book Award Finalist

• Indian Summer by Brian McDonald (General Nonfiction, 2003)
• Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas G. Brinkley (General Nonfiction, 2003)

Guardian 1000

• The good soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek (War and travel)

Hawthornden Prize

• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor (1999)

IPPY Finalist

• A War to be Won : Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945 by Williamson; Millett Murray, Allan R. (History, 2001)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

• Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter (2002)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

• Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw (Biography, 2001)

Lambda Literary Award Nominee

• Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball by Dave Pallone (Gay Men's Nonfiction, 1990)

Lincoln Prize

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006)

Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist

• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2003)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (Biography, 1990)
• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (History, 1980)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

• The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski (History, 2007)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (History, 2008)

Michigan Notable Books

• Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas G. Brinkley (2004)
• When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball by Seth Davis (2010)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• The guns of August (16)
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (79)
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (92)

National Book Award

• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (Autobiography/Biography (Paperback), 1982)
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Biography,1980)
• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (History, 1978)
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a History of Nazi Germany (Nonfiction, 1961)

National Book Award finalist

• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), 1981)
• American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964 by William Manchester (Biography (Paperback), 1980)
• The ballpark by William Jaspersohn (Children's Books, Nonfiction (Hardcover), 1981)
• The making of the President, 1964 by Theodore H. White (History and Biography, 1966)
• The making of the President, 1960. by Theodore H. White (Nonfiction, 1962)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)

National Book Critics Circle Award

• A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward (Biography/Autobiography, 1989)
• Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (General Nonfiction, 1980)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Biography, 2005)
• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (General Nonfiction, 1977)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (General Nonfiction, 2008)

New York City Book Award

• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows (Book of the Year, 1998)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (1977)
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (1979)
• The First World War by John Keegan (1999)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (2002)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2008)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

New York Times bestseller

• Rhubarb by H. Allen Smith (Fiction, 1946)
• McGraw of the Giants by Frank Graham (General, 1944)
• The St. Louis Cardinals: The Story of a Great Baseball Club (Writing Baseball) by Frank G. Lieb (General, 1944)
• The Gashouse Gang-and a Couple of Other Guys by J. Roy Stockton (General, 1945)
• Connie Mack, Grand Old Man of Baseball by Frederick G. Lieb (General, 1945)
• The Detroit Tigers by Frederick G. Lieb (General, 1946)
• Judge Landis and Twenty Five Years of Baseball by J.G.Taylor Spink (General, 1947)
• The Chicago Bears by Howard Roberts (General, 1947)
• Strikeout Story by Bob Feller (General, 1947)
• The Boston Red Sox (Writing Baseball) by Frederick G. Lieb (General, 1947)
• The Babe Ruth Story by Babe Ruth (General, 1948)
• Fear strikes out; the Jim Piersall story by Jimmy Piersall (General, 1955)
• The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead (General, 1958)
• The long season by Jim Brosnan (General, 1960)
• Baseball is a funny game by Joe Garagiola (General, 1960)
• Veeck--as in wreck; the autobiography of Bill Veeck with Ed Linn by Bill Veeck (General, 1962)
• Ball four; my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues by Jim Bouton (General, 1970)
• "Mr. Cub," by Ernie Banks (General, 1971)
• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (General, 1972)
• A BRIDGE TOO FAR by Ryan Cornelius (General, 1974)
• Nice guys finish last by Leo Durocher (General, 1975)
• Path Between Seas by David mccullough (General, 1977)
• The Brethren : Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward (General, 1979)
• Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man by William F. Russell (General, 1979)
• Number 1 by Billy Martin (General, 1980)
• Breaks of the Game, The by David Halberstam (General, 1981)
• Balls by Graig Nettles (Nonfiction, 1984)
• A Season On The Brink by John Feinstein (Nonfiction, 1987)
• Winfield: A Player's Life by Dave Winfield (Nonfiction, 1988)
• The Duke of Flatbush by Duke Snider (Nonfiction, 1988)
• Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 1989)
• Bo by Bo Schembechler (Nonfiction, 1989)
• The Second World War: An Illustrated History by John Keegan (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball by Dave Pallone (Nonfiction, 1990)
• Men at work : the craft of baseball by George F. Will (Nonfiction, 1990)
• The Bootlegger's Boy by Barry Switzer (Nonfiction, 1990)
• I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story by Hank Aaron (Nonfiction, 1991)
• No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction, 1994)
• October 1964 by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 1994)
• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Nonfiction, 1998)
• The American Century by Harold Evans (Nonfiction, 1998)
• Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 1999)
• The First World War by John Keegan (Nonfiction, 1999)
• Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell (Nonfiction, 1999)
• The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball by John Feinstein (Nonfiction, 2000)
• April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik (Nonfiction, 2001)
• Zim: A Baseball Life by Don Zimmer (Nonfiction, 2001)
• The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael R. Beschloss (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy (Nonfiction, 2002)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Teammates by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 2003)
• Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan (Nonfiction, 2003)
• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Namath: A Biography by Mark Kriegel (Nonfiction, 2004)
• Marv Levy: Where Else Would You Rather Be? by Marv Levy (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Nonfiction, 2005)
• EDUCATION OF A COACH, THE by David Halberstam (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger (Nonfiction, 2005)
• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss (Nonfiction, 2006)
• Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda (Nonfiction, 2007)
• The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL by Mark Bowden (Nonfiction, 2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Nonfiction, 2009)
• The Yankee Years by Joe Torre (Nonfiction, 2009)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

• Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss (Non-Fiction, 2006)
• Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (Nonfiction, 2008)
• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (Nonfiction, 2008)
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye (Nonfiction, 2009)
• The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans (Nonfiction, 2009)
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (Nonfiction, 2009)

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