| Year | Author(s) | Book | Result |
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| 2010 | Howard Bryant | The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron | Winner |
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| Jane Leavy | The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood | Finalist |
| James Forr & David Proctor | Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography | Finalist |
| Edward Achorn | 59 in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had | Finalist |
| James S. Hirsch | Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend | Finalist |
| Robert Elias | The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad | Finalist |
| Josh Wilker | Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told through Baseball Cards | Finalist |
| Steve Berg | Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins | Finalist |
| Dick Perez | The Immortals: An Art Collection of Baseball's Best | Finalist |
| D.J. Stout | The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club: An Illustrated History of the Best Little Semipro Baseball Team in Texas | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kostya Kennedy | 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports | Winner |
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| Dennis Snelling | The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957 | Finalist |
| John Thorn | Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game | Finalist |
| Chad Harbach | The Art of Fielding | Finalist |
| Dan Barry | Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game | Finalist |
| Wilfred Santiago | 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente | Finalist |
| Neil Lanctot | Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella | Finalist |
| Neal & Constance McCabe | The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon's Golden Age Baseball Photographs | Finalist |
| Thomas Aiello | The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932 | Finalist |
| Glenn Stout | Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year | Finalist |
| 2012 | Paul Dickson | Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick | Winner |
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| Norman L. Macht | Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931 | Finalist |
| Robert K. Fitts | Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan | Finalist |
| Harvey Araton | Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift | Finalist |
| Tom Clavin & Danny Peary | Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, The Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend | Finalist |
| Andy Jurinko & Christopher Jennison | Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960 | Finalist |
| Rob Miech | The Last Natural: Bryce Harper's Big Gamble in Sin City and the Greatest Amateur Season Ever | Finalist |
| Marty Appel | Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss | Finalist |
| Joseph M. Schuster | The Might Have Been: A Novel | Finalist |
| Gregory Jordan | Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home | Finalist |
| 2013 | Herschel Cobb | Heart of a Tiger: Growing Up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb | Winner |
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| Tom Dunkel | Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball's Color Line | Finalist |
| Allen Barra | Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age | Finalist |
| Michael Joyce | Going the Distance | Finalist |
| Lucas Mann | Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere | Finalist |
| Roberts Ehrgott | Mr. Wrigley's Ball Club: Chicago and the Cubs during the Jazz Age | Finalist |
| Valerie Sayers | The Powers | Finalist |
| Mike Lackey | Spitballing: The Baseball Days of Long Bob Ewing | Finalist |
| Edward Achorn | The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game | Finalist |
| Robert Weintraub | The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age | Finalist |
| 2014 | Kostya Kennedy | Pete Rose: An American Dilemma | Winner |
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| William C. Kashatus | Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line | Finalist |
| John Rosengren | The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption | Finalist |
| Doug Wilson | Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson | Finalist |
| Rick Huhn | The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title that Became a National Obsession | Finalist |
| Dennis Snelling | Johnny Evers: A Baseball Biography | Finalist |
| Andy McCue | Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion | Finalist |
| Roger Kahn | Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball | Finalist |
| Rob Goldman | Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher | Finalist |
| Scott Simkus | Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 1876-1950 | Finalist |
| Bill Madden | 1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever | Finalist |
| George Will | A Nice Little Place of the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred | Finalist |
| 2015 | Charles Leerhsen | Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty | Winner |
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| Charles Fountain | The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball | Finalist |
| Travis Sawchik | Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak | Finalist |
| Steve Steinberg & Lyle Spatz | The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees | Finalist |
| Bill Pennington | Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius | Finalist |
| Philip Beard | Swing | Finalist |
| John Klima | The Game Must Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front, 1941-1945 | Finalist |
| Gary Cieradkowski | The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball's Forgotten Heroes | Finalist |
| Jeff Katz | Split Season, 1981: Fernandomania, the Bronx Zoo, and the Strike that Saved Baseball | Finalist |
| Jon Pessah | The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers | Finalist |
| 2016 | Michael Leahy | The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers | Winner |
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| Jeff Passan | The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports | Finalist |
| Tim Peeler | Wild in the Strike Zone: Baseball Poems | Finalist |
| David Duchovny | Bucky F*cking Dent | Finalist |
| Ben Lindbergh & Sam Miller | The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team | Finalist |
| Stephen Wong & Dave Grob | Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game's Greatest Heroes and Moments | Finalist |
| Glenn Stout | The Selling of the Babe: The Deal that Changed Baseball and Created a Legend | Finalist |
| Tom Stanton | Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-Era Detroit | Finalist |
| Michael Tackett | The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams | Finalist |
| George J. Gmelch | Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties | Finalist |
| 2017 | Marty Appel | Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character | Winner |
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| Sridhar Pappu | The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age | Finalist |
| John Eisenberg | The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball’s Most Historic Record | Finalist |
| Dennis Evanosky & Eric J. Kos | Lost Ballparks | Finalist |
| Paul Dickson | Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son | Finalist |
| Dennis Snelling | Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador | Finalist |
| Jason Turbow | Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swinging A’s | Finalist |
| Richard Sandomir | The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic | Finalist |
| Kevin Cook | Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame that Lasted Forever | Finalist |
| Keith Law | Smart Baseball: The Story behind the Old Stats that Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones that are Running It, and the Right Way to Think about Baseball | Finalist |
| 2018 | Rob Neyer | Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game | Winner |
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| Jane Leavy | The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created | Finalist |
| Tony Castro | Gehrig & the Babe: The Friendship and the Feud | Finalist |
| Bill Gruber | Baseball in a Grain of Sand: Seeing the Game through a Small Town Team | Finalist |
| Tom Friend | The Chicken Runs at Midnight: A Daughter's Message from Heaven that Changed a Father's Heart and Won a World Series | Finalist |
| Anne R. Keene | The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win World War II | Finalist |
| Peter Devereaux | Game Faces: Early Baseball Cards from the Library of Congress | Finalist |
| Mark Di Ionno | Gods of Wood and Stone | Finalist |
| Todd Radom | Winning Ugly: A Visual History of the Most Bizarre Baseball Uniforms Ever Worn | Finalist |
| Bill Nowlin | Tom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox | Finalist |
| John Erardi | Tony Perez: From Cuba to Cooperstown | Finalist |
| Randy Roberts & Johnny Smith | A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jeremy Beer | Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player | Winner |
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| Paul Goldberger | Ballpark: Baseball in the American City | Finalist |
| Tyler Kepner | K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches | Finalist |
| Bill Pennington | Chumps to Champs: How the Worst Teams in Yankees History Led to the 90’s Dynasty | Finalist |
| Greg Rhodes, John Erardi, & Greg Gajus | Baseball Revolutionaries: How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Rocked the Country and Made Baseball Famous | Finalist |
| Alex Speier | Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up | Finalist |
| Bob Klapisch & Paul Solotaroff | Inside the Empire: the True Power behind the New York Yankees | Finalist |
| Don Zminda | The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball's Greatest Salesman | Finalist |
| Ron Rapoport | Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, The Life of Ernie Banks | Finalist |
| Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik | The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players | Finalist |
| Christopher J. Phillips | Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball | Finalist |
| Jason Turbow | They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen | Finalist |
