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 Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nebraska, May 2023) by Erik … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Daybreak at Chavez Ravine
Congratulations to Erik Sherman, author of Daybreak at Chavez Ravine, and Steven P. Gietschier, author of Baseball! They are finalists for the 2022 CASEY Award. According to Spitball Editor Mike Shannon, “Great baseball books are nominated as Finalists for the CASEY Award … Continue reading Announcing the 2023 CASEY Award Finalists
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
Reviews Oracle of Lost Causes Review in Publisher’s Weekly: “In this detailed yet disjointed account, historian Hulbert (Martial Culture, Silver Screen) profiles John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), a Missouri Confederate and editorial writer who rose to ‘B-list celebrity’ as he navigated … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Will Rogers Medallion John Mort’s Oklahoma Odyssey and Ella Cara Deloria’s Dakota Way of Life are both finalists Foreword INDIES Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction is a Silver Winner for Autobiography & Memoir Andrew Farkas’ The Great Indoorsman … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Mónica Gomery’s Might Kindred was a category finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award Reviews We Who Walk the Seven Ways Review in Foreword Reviews: “Covering topics as diverse as race, religion, and the craft of writing, We Who Walk the … Continue reading News & Reviews
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