Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review is pleased to announce
the winner of the fourth annual Dave Moore Award for the "most important
baseball book" of 2002, as selected by our panel of judges:
The End of Baseball As We Knew It:
The Players Union, 1960-81
by Charles Korr
Our congratulations to Mr. Korr and University
of Illinois Press!
About the Author:
Charles Korr is a professor of history at the University
of Missouri – St.Louis. In addition to his work on baseball, he has
published books and articles on subjects including English foreign policy
in the seventeenth century, the social history of a London soccer club (West
Ham United: The Making of a Football Club), and the politics of political
protest in the Olympics. At his first baseball game, he saw Joe DiMaggio
at Shibe Park. His current work deals with how South African political prisoners
on Robben Island used sports in prison as a way to continue their struggle
against apartheid. He and his wife, Anne, live in St. Louis and hope to
spend part of each year in South Africa and Britain.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (www.press.uillinois.edu)
Date Published: September, 2002
Length: 336 pages
Format: Cloth
Price: $34.95
Congratulations to the other authors and publishers
who were among the finalists for the 2002 Dave Moore Award, and a
special thank you to Chuck Chalberg, Reid Duffy, Jack Parker, Diana Vossbrinck,
and Cathy Ward for lending their time and talents while serving as judges
for this year's award.
