The Casey Award has been given to the best baseball book of the year since 1983. The award was begun by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, editors and co-founders of “Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine.”
1983 – Eric Rolfe Greenberg, for The Celebrant
1984 – Peter Golenbock, for Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
1985 – Roger Kahn, for Good Enough to Dream
1986 – Bill James, for The Bill James Historical Abstract
1987 – Peter H. Gordon, for Diamonds Are Forever
1988 – John Holway, for Blackball Stars
1989 – Mike Sowell, for The Pitch That Killed
1990 – Harold Seymour, for Baseball: The People’s Game
1991 – Bruce Kuklick, for To Everything a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976
1992 – Phil S. Dixon, for The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History
1993 – Michael Gershman, for Diamonds: the Evolution of the Ballpark
1994 – John Helyar, for Lords of the Realm
1995 – Henry W. Thomas, for Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train
1996 – Marty Appel, for Slide, Kelly, Slide
1997 – Thomas Dyja, for Play for a Kingdom
1998 – David Pietrusza, for Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
1999 – Neal Karlen, for Slouching Toward Fargo
2000 – Reed Browning, for Cy Young: A Baseball Life
2001 – Tom Stanton, for The Final Season
2002 – Howard Bryant, for Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
2003 – Michael Lewis, for Moneyball
2004 – Leigh Montville, for Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
2005 – Jonathan Eig, for Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
2006 – Peter Morris, for Game of Inches
2007 – Joe Posnanski, for The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
2008 – Kadir Nelson, for We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
2009 – Larry Tye, for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
2010 – Howard Bryant, for The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
2011 – Kostya Kennedy, for 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
2012 – Paul Dickson, for Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick
2013 – Herschel Cobb, for Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb
2014 - Kostya Kennedy, for Pete Rose: An American Dilemma
2015 - Charles Leerhsen, for Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
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