Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports (Nebraska, 2022) by Clayton Trutor. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Loserville
Black History Month originates from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)’s national Negro History Week initially founded in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. The celebration was later officially proclaimed by President Gerald Ford as … Continue reading Black History Month Reading List
We’re pleased to share our new Spring / Summer 2023 seasonal catalog! Browse the online version to see forthcoming titles from Nebraska, Bison Books, Potomac Books, the Jewish Publication Society, and The Backwaters Press. Visit our NetGalley page for a … Continue reading Introducing the Spring / Summer 2023 Seasonal Catalog
Congratulations to Jason Cannon, author of Charlie Murphy, and Judith R. Hiltner and James R. Walker, authors of Red Barber! They are finalists for the 2022 CASEY Award. Each year Spitball Magazine presents an award for the best baseball book … Continue reading Announcing the 2022 CASEY Award Finalists
Jean Ardell, nationally-recognized baseball writer, passed away on October 7, 2022 at the age of 79. Ardell earned her bachelor’s in English from UC Irvine in 1988 and later earned her master’s in nonfiction writing from the University of Southern … Continue reading Remembering Jean Ardell
Vin Scully, longtime broadcaster for the Dodgers, passed away on August, 2 2022 at the age of 94. Scully began his broadcasting career in 1949 after attending Fordham University, where he studied journalism and was a student broadcaster. He joined … Continue reading Remembering Vin Scully
Summer is the perfect time to kick back, relax, and read baseball books written by one of our authors. With our summer reading sale, you can get our baseball books for 50% off! From now until the end of July, … Continue reading Baseball Summer Reading List
Joe Bonomo teaches in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays; Conversations with Greil Marcus; Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band; Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost … Continue reading From the Desk of Joe Bonomo: Roger Angell, Legendary Writer
I AM Books will be hosting a free zoom webinar event on April 14, 2022, with UNP author Lawrence Baldassaro. Focusing on Tony Lazzeri as the person who first drew large numbers of Italian fans to the ballpark and who … Continue reading Home Run: The Italian American Embrace of Baseball – Virtual Event
On February 4 the Society for American Baseball Research announced the winner of its 2022 Seymour Medal. We not only published the winner of this year’s medal, but both of the finalists as well! Steven Treder’s Forty Years a Giant: … Continue reading Clean Sweep for the 2022 Seymour Medal
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