Dave Moore Award

Given by Elysian Fields Quarterly

Other Names: Elysian Fields Quarterly Finalist
52 Works / 53 Items 10,647 Books 243 Reviews 4.1
The baseball journal Elysian Fields Quarterly began awarding the Dave Moore Award in 1999. The honor is given to the “most important” baseball book of the year. It is named for the late Dave show more Moore, a well known Minnesota broadcaster, who loved sports and literature. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (10), Finalist (43)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2008 (1), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (6), 2004 (6), 2003 (6), 2002 (6), 2001 (6), 2000 (6), 1999 (6)

Winner 10

WorkYear
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball by Norman L. Macht2007
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports by Brad Snyder2006
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler2005
The Greatest Ballpark Ever: Ebbets Field and the Story of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Bob McGee2005
September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies, And Racial Integration (Keystone Book) by William C. Kashatus2004
Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark by Jim Bouton2003
The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81 (Sport and Society) by Charles Korr2002
The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark by Tom Stanton2001
Havana Heat by Darryl Brock2000
The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria1999

Finalist 43

WorkCategoryYear
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphybest book on baseball history2008
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig2007
A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant by Bill Felber2007
Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman by Lee Lowenfish2007
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History by Cait Murphy2007
Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded by Gene Carney2006
Money Pitcher: Chief Bender And the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation by William C. Kashatus2006
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game by Mark Lamster2006
The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager2006
Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game by David Block2005
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig2005
Satchel Paige's America (Alabama Fire Ant) by William Price Fox2005
Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel by Steven Goldman2005
The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream by Jim Collins2004
The 10th Man: The Fan in Baseball History by Donald Dewey2004
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution by Neil Lanctot2004
The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics by Alan Schwarz2004
The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove2004
Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz by Arturo J. Marcano Guevara2003
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis2003
The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together by Michael Shapiro2003
Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball by Brad Snyder2003
Ballpark Blues: A Novel by C.W. Tooke2003
Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era by Charles C. Alexander2002
Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian by David L. Fleitz2002
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy2002
Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball by Glenn Stout2002
POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire by Tim Wolter2002
Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921 by Robert F. Burk2001
Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson by David L. Fleitz2001
Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man by James N. Giglio2001
Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball by George Gmelch2001
Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook by Martin Kohout2001
More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History by David W. Anderson2000
How All This Started: A Novel by Pete Fromm2000
Full Count: Inside Cuban Baseball (Writing Baseball) by Milton H. Jamail2000
Lefty Grove: American Original by Jim Kaplan2000
Past Time: Baseball As History by Jules Tygiel2000
A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward by Bryan Di Salvatore1999
Baseball's Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 by William Marshall1999
Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball by Burt Solomon1999
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws by R. G. Utley1999
Where Garagiola Waits, and Other Baseball Stories by Rick Wilber1999

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