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CURRENT BASEBALL PUBLICATIONS
*SAMPLE ISSUE*
Compiled by Richard W. Arpi, SABR Bibliography Committee
Section I: Anthologies
Alvarez, Mark, ed. "The Perfect Game: A Classic Collection
of Facts, Figures, Stories and Characters from the Society for
American Baseball Research" Taylor (0-878-33815-2, $19.95 h),
1993."SABR's Greatest Hits:" The best SABR writing of the past 20
years.
Section II: Bios
Barber, Red and Robert Creamer. "Rhubarb in the Catbird
Seat" Amereon House ($28.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Barney, Rex with Norman L. Macht. "Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu
for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore" Tidewater
(228 pp., photographs, 0-870-33443-3, $19.95 h), 1993.
Bass, Mike. "Marge Schott..Unleashed! The Unauthorized
Biography" Sagamore (309p, 0-915-61173-2, $19.95)
Broeg, Bob. "Superstars of Baseball: Their Lives, Their
Loves, Their Laughs, Their Laments" Diamond Communications
(0-912-08361-1, $16.95), 1993.
Campanella, Roy. "It's Good to Be Alive" Amereon House
($27.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Carroll, John M. "Fritz Pollard: A Pioneer in Racial Ad-
vancement" From author, 3825 Holland Drive, Beaumont TX 77707.
(0-252-01814-1, $32.95 h), 1992.
Carter, Gary with Ken Abraham. "The Gamer" Word (272p,
0-849-91071-4, $19.99 h), 1993.
Cobb, Ty with Al Stumpf. "My Life in Baseball: The True
Record" Amereon House ($23.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Eskenazi, Gerald. "The Lip: A Biography of Leo Durocher"
Morrow (336 pp., 0-688-11895-x, $23 h), 1993.
Fornoff, Susan. "Lady in the Locker Room" Sagamore (231p,
0-915-61170-8, $19.95), 1993
Kaufman, Louis and Barbara Fitzgerald and Tom Sewell. "Moe
Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy" Amereon House ($27.95 h), 1993.
Reprint.
Leonard, Buck and James A. Riley. "Buck Leonard: In His Own
Words" Amereon House ($28.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Levine, Ken. "It's Gone...No, Wait a Minute: Talking My Way
into the Big Leagues at 40" Villard (295p, 0-679-42093-2, $20 h),
1993.
Linn, Ed. "Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams"
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (437p, 0-151-93100-3, $23.95 h), 1993.
Mathewson, Christy. "Pitching in a Pinch" (Amereon House
($27.95 h), 1993.
Mayer, Ronald A. "Christy Mathewson: A Game-By-Game Profile
of a Legendary Pitcher" McFarland (239 pp., photographs, tables,
notes, index, 0-899-50821-9, $25.95 h), 1993.
Mercurio, John A. "Official Profiles of Baseball Hall of
Famers" S.P.I. ($10.99 p), 1993.
Morgan, Joe and David Falkner. "Joe Morgan: A Life in
Baseball" Norton (0-393-03469-0, pp., $21.95), 1993.
Murray, Jim. "The Autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize
Winning Sports Columnist" Macmillan ($22 h), 1993.
Puckett, Kirby. "I Love This Game: My Life and Baseball"
Harper Collins (238p, 0-060-17710-1, $20 h), 1993.
Santo, Rick with Randy Minkoff. "For Love of Ivy" Bonus
Books (224p, 0-929-38792-9, $20), 1993.
Sheed, Wilfrid. "My Life as a Fan" Simon & Schuster (221p,
0-671-76710-0, $20 h), 1993.
Smelser, Marshall. "The Life that Ruth Built: A Biography"
University of Nebraska (Bison) (592p, ill, 0-083-29218-X, $16.9-
5), 1993. Reprint.
Smith, Robert. "Baseball in the Afternoon: Tales from a
Bygone Era" Simon & Schuster (288 pp., ill, 0-671-73930-1, $21
h), 1993.
Wolff, Rick. "What's A Nice Harvard Boy Like You Doing in
the Bushes?" Amereon House ($22.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Section III: Fiction and Poetry
Baker, Kevin. "Sometimes You See It Coming" Crown (320 pp.,
0-517-59088-3, $20), 1992.
"Baseball Tales: Major League Writers on the National
Pastime" Viking (100p, 0-670-84700-3, $14.95), 1993. Short
stories not by sportswriters.
Carney, Gene. "Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on
Players and the Game" Player silhouettes by Mike Schacht. McFar-
land (127 pp., ill, 0-899-50838-3, $16.95 h), 1993.
Evers, Crabbe. "Fear in Fenway" Morrow (288 pp., 0-688-1146-
8-7, $18 h), 1993.
Gordon, Allison. "Night Game" St. Martin's (288 pp., 0-312-
09062-5, $18.95 h), 1993. Kate Henry is back.
Greenberg, Eric Rolfe. "The Celebrant" University of Nebras-
ka (Bison) (272p, 0-803-27037-2, $9.95), 1993. Reprint of one of
the greatest baseball novels ever published.
Honig, Donald. "Last Man Out" Dutton (240 pp., 0-525-936637,
$19 h), 1993. The follow-up to "The Plot to Kill Jackie Robin-
son."
Mandino, Og. "The Twelfth Angel" Fawcett Columbine (176 pp.,
0-449-90689-2, $15), 1993.
Mathewson, Christy. "First Base Faulkner" Amereon House
($28.95 h), 1993. Reprint of the Big Train's fiction attempt.
Peyer, Tom and Hart Seely. "O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse
of Phil Rizzuto" The Ecco Press (107 pp., 0-880-01325-7, $8.95
p), 1993. A major hoot.
Shannon, Mike, ed. "The Best of Spitball" Amereon House
($19.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Section IV: History and General
Allen, Lee. "The Hot Stove League" Amereon House ($27.95 h),
1993. Reprint.
Asinof, Eliot. "Eight Men Out" Amereon House ($27.95 h),
1993. Reprint.
Barber, Red. "1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball"
Amereon House ($29.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Dickson, Paul and William Mead. "Baseball: The President's
Game" Farragut (208 pp., ill, 0-918-53516-6, $24.95 h), 1993.
DiManno, Rosie. "Glory Jays: Canada's World Series Champi-
ons" Sagamore (297p, ill, 0-915-61168-6, $24.95), 1993
Euchner, Charles C. "Playing the Field: Why Sports Teams
Move and Cities fight to Keep Them" Johns Hopkins University
Press (205 pp., notes, 0-801-84572-6, $14.95 h), 1993.
Filichia, Peter. "Professional Baseball Franchises: From the
Abbeville Athletics to the Zanesville Indians" Facts on File
(290p, 0-816-02647-5, $29.95 h), 1993.
Fimrite, Ron. "The World Series: A History of Baseball's
Fall Classic "Oxmoor House (224 pp., ill, index, appendix,
0-848-71155-6, $40 h), 1993.
Green, Guy W. "Fun and Frolic with an Indian Ball Team"
Amereon House ($14.95 h), 1993. Reprint of 1907 work.
Gregorich, Barbara. "Women at Play" Harcourt Brace Jovanovi-
ch (211 pp., 0-156-98297-8, $14.95 h), 1993.
Johnson, Arthur T. "Minor League Baseball and Local Economic
Development" University of Illinois Press (273p, 0-252-01865-6,
$27.95 h), 1993.
Klapisch, Bob and John Harper. "The Worst Team Money Can
Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets" Random House (281p,
0-679-41975-6, $21 h), 1993.
Lieb, Fred. "Baseball As I Have Known It" Amereon House
($27.95 h), 1993. Reprint of one of the great histories of all
time.
Richeal, Kip. "The Pittsburgh Pirates: Still Walking Tall"
Sagamore (275p, 0-915-61169-4, $19.95), 1993.
Richmond, Peter. "Ballpark: Camden Yards and the Building of
an American Dream" Simon & Schuster (284p, 0-671-74851-3, $23 h),
1993.
Rosenberg, I.J. "Encore: The Inside Story of the Atlanta
Braves' Second Consecutive National League Championship" Longstr-
eet (231p, ill, 1-563-52062-1, $29.95 h), 1993.
Shannon, Bill and George Kalinsky. "The Ballparks" Amereon
House ($49.95 h), 1993. Reprint.
Sowell, Mike. "July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall-
of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty" Macmillan (326 pp., 0-026-12415-7, $20
h), 1992.
"Sports Illustrated's Collector's Library: Baseball" Oxmoor
House (286 pp., 0-848-71148-3, $17.99 h), 1993.
Stotz, Carl H as told to Kenneth D. Loss. "A Promise Kept:
The Story of the Founding of Little League Baseball" Zebrowski,
RD1 Box 400, Jersey Shore PA 17740 (196p, 1-880-48405-6, $16.95
h), 1992.
Tygiel, Jules. "Baseball's Great Experiment" Jackie Robinson
and His Legacy" Oxford University Press ($10.95), 193. Reprint.
Westcott, Rich and Frank Bilovsky. "The New Phillies Ency-
clopedia" Temple University Press (799p, 1-566-39045-1, $49.95),
1993.
Zack, Bill. "Tomahawked! The Inside Story of the Atlanta
Braves' Tumultuous Season" Simon & Schuster (222p, ill, 0-671-8-
6878-0, $20 h), 1993.
Section V: Hobby
Congdon-Martin, Douglas and John Kashmanian. "Baseball
Treasures: Memorabilia from the National Pastime" Schiffer (256p,
0-887-40492-8, $59.95 h), 1993.
Owens, Thomas S. "Collecting Baseball Cards" Millbrook (80p,
1-562-94254-9, $8.95), 1993.
Stewart, Mark. "The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Baseball
Cards" Crown (136p, ill, 0-517-88035-0, $10 p), 1992.
Section VI: Gambling
Srinivasan, David and Douglas Byron and Evan Rentschler.
"The Compleat Baseball Advocate" CBPS Publishing, Okemos MI (206
pp., $12.95), 1993.
Section VII: Humor and Trivia
Nelson, Kevin. "Baseball's Even Greater Insults: More of the
Game's Most Outrageous and Irreverent Remarks" Simon & Schuster
(220p, 0-671-76066-1, $9 p), 1993.
Sullivan, George and Barbara Lagowski "The Sports Curmud-
geon" Warner (179p, 0-446-39399-1, $7.99), 1993.
Section VIII: Instructional
Baker, Dusty and others. "You Can Teach Hitting: A Systemat-
ic Approach to Hitting for Parents, Coaches and Players" Bittin-
ger Books, distributd by Masters Press (256 pp., index, ill,
$24.95 p), 1993.
Cluck, Bob. "Play Better Baseball" Contemporary (248 pp.,
index, 0-809-23922-1, $12.95 p), 1993.
Southworth, Harold S. "The Complete Book of Baseball Signs"
Foreword by Rod Dedeaux. Avon (357 pp., index, 0-380-76378-8,
$10), 1993.
Section IX: Juvenile
Gutman, Dan. "Baseball's Biggest Bloopers: The Games That
Got Away" Viking Children's Books (160 pp., ill, 0-670-84603-1,
$14), 1993.
Section X: Stats
Horton, Ralph L. "Baseball's Best Pitchers: 1876-1992"
Horton Publishing Co. P.O. Box 29234, St. Louis MO 63126 (84 pp.,
0-944-78690-1, $20 p), 1993. Relative Performance applied to
hurlers.
The above is a sample edition of CURRENT BASEBALL PUBLICA-
TIONS. It has been slightly abridged to expidite document trans-
fer. Also keep in mind that this sample is in ASCII text and
does not necessarily reflect the actual apearance of the printed
publication.
CURRENT BASEBALL PUBLICATIONS is published five times
annually. Four editions are issued quarterly, with a fifth
edition appearing early in the year listing all publications of
the previous year. All copies are delivered via post. Subscrip-
tions are available to anyone at the following rates: $8/yr
(Continental US), $10/yr (Canada), and $12 (Overseas). Subscrip-
tion requests should be sent to:
SABR
P.O. Box 93183
Cleveland, OH 44101
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The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is an non-
profit organization of over 6,000 baseball enthusiasts and
researchers. SABR members pursue, organize and share information
on baseball history, individuals, statistics, and literature.
Founded in 1971, SABR's aim is to establish an accurate record of
baseball from its beginnings to the present day, and to gain an
even greater enjoyment and appreciation of the game for all
baseball fans.
Anyone can belong to SABR. Members receive several SABR-
produced publications covering a wide variety of baseball topics,
including a monthly newsletter and a detailed directory to the
SABR membership. Annual dues are $35 ($45 in Canada and Mexico.
$50 overseas).
If you think you would be interested in joining SABR, or
would just like more information, please write to:
SABR
P.O. Box 93183
Cleveland, OH 44101