CASEY AWARD  FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 1983-2003

The CASEY Award was inaugurated in 1983 by Mike Shannon and W.J. Harrison, the editors and co-founders of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, because up to that time there had never been any award specifically designated to honor the authors and publishers of outstanding baseball books.  The CASEY Award itself is a bronze plaque, which is mounted on a wooden base. The plaques are manufactured by the Newman Brothers Company of Cincinnati and feature the original Spitball Napoleon Lajoie-holding-a-quill-pen logo, which was designed by the Magazine’s first art director, Blair Gibeau.