Seymour Award Finalists
1. 
Leave While the Party’s Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton
by:
Lee C. Kluck
4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 2. 
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
by:
Keith O'Brien
4.39 avg rating — 2,671 ratings 3. 
Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers
by:
Erik Sherman
4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings 4. 
Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America
by:
Peter Dreier
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings 
6. 
The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War
by:
Jim Leeke
3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings 7. 
Comeback Pitchers: The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn
by:
Lyle Spatz
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings 8. 
How Baseball Happened: Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed 3.68 avg rating — 400 ratings
10. 
The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932
by:
Thomas Wolf
3.96 avg rating — 120 ratings 11. 
Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
by:
David Block
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 12. 
The Workingman's Game: Waverly, New York, the Twin Tiers and the Making of Modern Baseball, 1887–1898 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
15. 
The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
by:
Anne R. Keene
3.56 avg rating — 864 ratings 
17. 
Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
18. 
The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
by:
Curt Smith
3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings 
20. 
The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record
by:
John Eisenberg
3.92 avg rating — 299 ratings 21. 
Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
by:
Robert F Garratt
4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings 
24. 
Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
by:
Tom Stanton
3.75 avg rating — 1,037 ratings 25. 
The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend
by:
Glenn Stout
3.98 avg rating — 123 ratings 26. 
In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
by:
Mark Armour
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 95 ratings 27. 
A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball
by:
Jennifer Ring
4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings 28. 
The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees
by:
Steve Steinberg
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings 29. 
Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
by:
Nathaniel Grow
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 30. 
The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession
by:
Rick Huhn
3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings 31. 
Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life by Dennis Snelling (2014-04-18)
by:
Dennis Snelling
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 32. 
The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption
by:
Stuart Banner
4.11 avg rating — 84 ratings 
34. 
Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
by:
Tom Dunkel
4.07 avg rating — 274 ratings 
38. 
Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
by:
John Thorn
3.68 avg rating — 804 ratings 
40. 
Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
by:
Edward Achorn
4.16 avg rating — 738 ratings 41. 
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by:
Jane Leavy
3.97 avg rating — 6,841 ratings 42. 
After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age in New York Baseball
by:
Robert E. Murphy
3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings 
44. 
"The Father of Baseball": A Biography of Henry Chadwick
by:
Andrew J. Schiff
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 45. 
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
by:
Daniel R. Levitt
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings 46. 
Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931
by:
Norman L. Macht
4.52 avg rating — 58 ratings 47. 
Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
48. 
A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
by:
Brad Snyder
4.13 avg rating — 749 ratings 49. 
Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game
by:
Mark Lamster
3.69 avg rating — 100 ratings 50. 
The Origins And History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
by:
Merrie A. Fidler
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 51. 
When to Stop the Cheering?: The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball
by:
Brian Carroll
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
54. 
Tris Speaker: The Rough-And-Tumble Life Of A Baseball Legend
by:
Timothy M. Gay
3.90 avg rating — 122 ratings 
56. 
The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
by:
Alan Schwarz
3.99 avg rating — 1,203 ratings 
58. 
The Tour to End All Tours: The Story of Major League Baseball's 1913-1914 World Tour
by:
James E. Elfers
3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 59. 
Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
by:
Daniel A. Nathan
3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings 60. 
Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball
by:
Brad Snyder
4.02 avg rating — 99 ratings 61. 
The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81
by:
Charles Korr
4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings 62. 
63. 
64. 
Louis Sockalexis: The First Cleveland Indian
by:
David L. Fleitz
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
67. 
69. 
More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
72. 
73. 
Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants by Gabriel Schechter (2000-04-14) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
74. 
Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise
by:
Glenn Stout
4.13 avg rating — 98 ratings 75. 
The Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws
by:
R.G. Utley
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 76. 
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
by:
Bruce Adelson
4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings 
81. 
82. 
Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
by:
David Pietrusza
3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings 83. 
When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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86. 
Big Red Dynasty: How Bob Howsam & Sparky Anderson Built the Big Red Machine
by:
Greg Rhodes
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings 
89. 
New York Yankee Openers: An Opening Day History of Baseball's Most Famous Team, 1903-1996
by:
Lyle Spatz
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 90. 
92. 
Brooklyn's Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball, 1947-1957
by:
Carl E. Prince
3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings 93. 
Creating the National Pastime Baseball Transforms Itself 1903-1953
by:
G. Edward White
3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings 
95. 
Great Time Coming: The Life Of Jackie Robinson From Baseball to Birmingham
by:
David Falkner
3.56 avg rating — 43 ratings 96. 
Diamonds of the North: A Concise History of Baseball in Canada
by:
William Humber
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 97. 
The Beer and Whisky League: The Illustrated History of the American Association-Baseball's Renegade Major League
by:
David Nemec
3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings 