Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review is pleased to announce the winner of the seventh annual Dave Moore Award for the "most important baseball book" of 2006, as selected by our panel of judges:

A Well-Paid Slave:
Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
by Brad Snyder

About the Author:

Brad Snyder, a lawyer and writer living in Washington, D.C., is a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School. He has written for numerous publications, including the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Yale Law Journal. His first book, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators, was a finalist for the 2003 Dave Moore Award and winner of the SABR Robert Peterson Recognition Award.

Publisher: Viking Penguin

Year Published: 2006

Length: 336 pages

Format: Cloth

Price: $26.95

Congratulations to the other authors and publishers who were among the finalists for the 2006 Dave Moore Award, and a special thank you to James Crossley, Joanne Hulbert, and Jay Thomas for lending their time and talents while serving as judges for this year's award.