Dave Moore Award

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The baseball journal Elysian Fields Quarterly began awarding the Dave Moore Award in 1999.^[1] 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[]

• 2007 for Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
• 2006 for A Well-Paid Slave
• 2005 Bob McGee for The Greatest Ballpark Ever
• 2004 for September Swoon
• 2003 Jim Bouton for Foul Ball
• 2002 for The End of Baseball as We Knew It
• 2001 Tom Stanton for The Final Season
• 2000 for Havana Heat
• 1999 Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria for The Pride of Havana

See also[]

• Baseball awards § Baseball book of the year
• List of sports journalism awards

References[]