NWSABR member Steve Steinberg and his East Coast colleague Lyle Spatz announce that their new book on the 1921 baseball season 1921, The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York has been published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Set in America's greatest city at the dawn of its most flamboyant decade,this is the story of the 1921 baseball season.  It revolves around two sensational pennant races culminating in a dramatic World Series. The book is highlighted by the New York Yankees winning their first pennant and then battling their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York World Series. A subtext of this battle is the charismatic Babe Ruth and his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led new slugging style.

Find out more about 1921 by visiting Steve's website and clicking on the 1921 tab.  Among other features, you'll find an "Interview" with Lyle and Steve, as well as "Ten Intriguing Facts about 1921.

Click 'Read More' to see a schedule of Steve's upcoming book-signing/promotional events.

We welcome the following individuals who have joined the NWSABR chapter since January 1, 2010:

NWSABR member and Corvallis resident Mark Armour has recently finished a book, Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, published by the University of Nebraska Press.  It is a standard biography of a man who rose from the streets of San Francisco to baseball star to manager to general manager to league president.  Events are scheduled on April 22 at Annie Bloom's Books in Portland, May 11 at the Benton County Library in Corvallis, and May 21 at Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle (joint appearance with Steve Steinberg).  For more information, visit Mark's web site: http://mark-armour.net/Joe_Cronin.html. 

Filmmaker Steve Cox, a guest at our November meeting in Seattle, has announced that the documentary The Seattle Pilots: Short Flight into History is completed.  Go to www.seattlepilotsfilm.com for more information.  Steve has entered the film into the Seattle International Film Festival which would arrange for a premier public screening if accepted.