{"id":1110,"date":"2009-04-01T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/frazee-book-named-ritter-award-finalist\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:44:54","slug":"frazee-book-named-ritter-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/frazee-book-named-ritter-award-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Frazee Book Named Ritter Award Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud to announce that my book <a href=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/harry-frazee-ban-johnson-and-the-feud-that-nearly-destroyed-the-american-league\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson, and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League<\/em> <\/a>was a finalist for the Larry Ritter Award, given by SABR&#8217;s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best new book related to the Deadball Era published in the previous year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alas, it didn&#8217;t win, but my congratulations go out to Ron Selter, whose fine book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandpub.com\/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3561-6\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ballparks of the Deadball Era<\/em><\/a>, won the award.\u00c2\u00a0 Excerpts from Ron&#8217;s book were featured here at Seamheads.com last October and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/author\/ron-selter\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other finalists include:<\/p>\n<p>1) Rick Huhn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandpub.com\/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3287-5\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Collins: A Baseball Biography<\/a> (McFarland), a comprehensive biography of the Hall of Fame second baseman and longtime executive.<\/p>\n<p>2) Tom Swift\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/catalog\/productinfo.aspx?id=673406&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Bender\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star<\/a> (University of Nebraska), a creatively woven biography of the Hall of Fame pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m proud to announce that my book Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson, and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League was a finalist for the Larry Ritter Award, given by SABR&#8217;s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best new book related to the Deadball Era published in the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}