Since we're pushing books this week:
Base Ball Pioneers: 1850-1870 was one of the winners of the 2013 SABR Baseball Research Award. As you may remember, I just so happened to have written the book's chapter on St. Louis and am proud to have been a part of the project. Congratulations to all of the great people who were involved in writing, editing and publishing the book and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the second volume, which I hope will be out soon.
Base Ball Pioneers is a great book and, if you haven't read it yet, get a copy. You'll love it. I may not have mentioned this but all of the royalties from the book have been donated to a couple of great causes: the Negro League Baseball Grave Marker Project and the Early Baseball and Deadball Era Memorial Series. The folks involved in putting the book together, including me, are not taking a dime so I think it's safe to say that we did this one for the love of the game and its history.
Also, while the award was given to our editors (Peter Morris, William Ryczek, Jan Finkel, Leonard Levis and Richard Malatzky) who did a fantastic job and were great to work with, I demand, from this point forward, to be called an Award-Winning Author. I think it's only right.
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