Writing Baseball: The Southern University Press Series will publish baseball books of high literary quality. The series, while advocating a high literary standard for baseball writing, is open to all narrative forms, including fiction, history, biography, and creative nonfiction. It will set its own standard for literary quality by publishing new baseball writing of imagination and insight, while also republishing out-of-print books of literary merit. The series also encourages and seeks out baseball writing from diverse points of view on the broadest range of baseball topics.

For reviews of recent books in the Series and further information, visit Southern Illinois University Press's website.

 

The series was launched in April 1998 with the publication of new editions of two baseball classics:

 

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Man on Spikes  
by Eliot Asinof (1955)
Read more about it . . .
My Baseball Diary
by James T. Farrell (1957)
Read more about it . . .

 

Current titles now include . . .

 

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Owning a Piece of the Minors
by Jerome Klinkowitz (1999)
Foreward by Mike Veeck
Read more about it . . .
The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! The Games as Umpires See It
by Lee Gutkind
Foreward by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
Read more about it . . .

 

Off-Season
A Novel by Eliot Asinof
Read more about it . . .
Full Count Inside Cuban Baseball
Milton H. Jamail
Foreword by Larry Dierker
Read more about it . . .

 

 

The National Game
Second Edition
Alfred H. Spink
Read more about it . . .
 

 

BOARD OF EDITORS 

 

Peter C. Bjarkman
Lee Gutkind
Brooke Horvath
Neil D. Isaacs
Don Johnson
Jerome Klinkowitz
Christian K. Messenger
Elinor Nauen
Ray Robinson
Mike Schacht
Mike Shannon
Timothy Wiles

 

 For more information, or to submit a publication proposal, please contact
Richard F. Peterson, Editor
Writing Baseball: The SIU Press Series
Department of English
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4503
Telephone: 618-453-6854
FAX: 618-453-3253
E-mail: peteball@siu.edu

 

 

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