Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review is pleased to announce the winner of the eighth annual Dave Moore Award for the "most important baseball book" of 2007, as selected by our panel of judges:

Connie Mack
and the Early Years of Baseball
by Norman L. Macht

About the Author:

Norman L. Macht is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the author of more than thirty books, including the biographies Rowdy Richard (with Dick Bartell) and Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu (with Rex Barney). A native of Brooklyn, he is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a former minor league general manager.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Year Published: 2007

Length: 708 pages

Format: Cloth

Price: $39.95

Congratulations to the other authors and publishers who were among the finalists for the 2007 Dave Moore Award, and a special thank you to Chuck Carbonneau, Tom Faulkner, and Scott Winkler for lending their time and talents while serving as judges for this year's award.