Dave Moore Award
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The baseball journal Elysian Fields Quarterly
began awarding the Dave Moore Award in 1999. The honor is given to the “most important” baseball book of the year. It is named for the late Dave Moore, a well known Minnesota broadcaster, who loved sports and literature.
Elysian Fields Quarterly
Elysian Fields Quarterly is a literary baseball journal of "writing on baseball from the fan's perspective", published in St. Paul MN. It features articles on baseball history and lore....
began awarding the Dave Moore Award in 1999. The honor is given to the “most important” baseball book of the year. It is named for the late Dave Moore, a well known Minnesota broadcaster, who loved sports and literature.
Dave Moore Award Recipients
- 2006 Brad SnyderBrad SnyderBradley Michael Snyder is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He was raised in Bellevue, Ohio, and attended Ball State University from 2001–2003.-College:...
for A Well-Paid Slave - 2005 Bob McGee for The Greatest Ballpark Ever
- 2004 William Kashatus for September Swoon
- 2003 Jim BoutonJim BoutonJames Alan "Jim" Bouton is a former American Major League Baseball pitcher. He is also the author of the controversial baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his season and memoir of his years with the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, and Houston Astros.-Amateur and college...
for Foul Ball - 2002 Charles Korr for The End of Baseball as We Knew It
- 2001 Tom StantonTom StantonTom Stanton is the author of several nonfiction baseball books, including two memoirs. In 1983, Stanton, a journalist, co-founded The Voice Newspapers in suburban Detroit and served as editor for sixteen years before embarking on a literary career in 1999...
for The Final Season - 2000 Darryl Brock for Havana HeatHavana HeatHavana Heat is a novel published in 2000 by Darryl Brock. It is a fictionalized story about a real historical figure, Dummy Taylor, a deaf baseball player who played professional baseball in the years 1900-1908.- Plot summary :...
- 1999 Roberto Gonzalez EchevarriaRoberto González EchevarríaRoberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic of Latin American literature and culture. He is currently the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University....
for The Pride of Havana