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Football-Loving Nebraska Nurtures Baseball Books
April 3, 2012 - 11:30am — Bibliofuture
Article in the NYT
From offices about a mile off campus, in the shadows of the state capitol in Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Press and its imprint, Bison Books, publish four to eight books a year for the hard-core hardball fan. Via its partnership with the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, Nebraska also distributes the organization’s wonkish publications, The National Pastime and The Baseball Research Journal.
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The current baseball book published by University of Nebraska Press is The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers
Release date: April 1, 2012
PDF excerpt from book.
Link to book on Amazon: The Team That Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers (Memorable Teams in Baseball History)
Most of the books
If you want to see a more complete list of books here is a link to the books published by University of Nebraska Press and that have "baseball" as a keyword.
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