McFarland & Company

Notable book series

The following book series are among those published by McFarland & Company:

• "Contributions to Zombie Studies" (edited by Kyle William Bishop)^[11]
• "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" (edited by C. W. Sullivan III and Donald Palumbo)^[12]

Scholarly journals

The following academic journals are published by McFarland & Company:

• Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game – focuses on "baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920"^[13]
• Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues – focuses on "all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, and pre–Negro league play"^[13]
• Clues: A Journal of Detection – focuses on "all aspects of mystery and detective material in print, television and movies"^[13]
• Journal of Information Ethics – focuses on information ethics and information science^[10]
• Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies – focuses on "global territorial and maritime issues"^[14][13]
• North Korean Review – focuses on an understanding of North Korea's "complexities and the threat it presents to global stability"^[13]

Winners

2025

• Mark Armour, “Satchel’s Wild Ride: How Satchel Paige Finally Made the Hall of Fame,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2024
• Richard J. Puerzer, “The 1939 Negro National League Championship Series,” The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants (SABR, 2024)

2024

• Gary Belleville, “The Trailblazing Canadian Trio That Powered the Rockford Peaches Dynasty of 1948-50,” Journal of Canadian Baseball / Revue du Baseball Canadien, November 1, 2023

2023

• Charlie Bevis, “Four Girls in Spring 1974: The First Foot-Soldiers of Female Inclusion in Little League Baseball,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2022
• Yoichi Nagata, Robert K. Fitts, and Mark Brunke, “The 1921 Native American Tours of Japan,” Nichibei Yakyu: US Tours of Japan, Volume 1: 1907-1958 (SABR, 2022)
• John Racanelli, “Death and Taxes and Baseball Card Litigation,” SABR Baseball Cards Blog, January 8-December 14, 2022

2022

• Bruce Allardice, “Runs, Runs, and More Runs: Pre-Professional Baseball, By the Numbers,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2021

2021

• Steve Gietschier, “Before We Forget: The Birth, Life, and Death of The Sporting News Research Center,” SABR Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2020
• Robert H. Schaefer, “The Fair-Foul Hitting Era: 1864-1876,” scheduled for publication in Base Ball 13: New Research on the Early Game, Fall 2021 (McFarland & Co.)

2020

• Emma Baccellieri, “A Brief History of the Many Times Baseball Has Died,” Sports Illustrated, August 29, 2019.
• Bill Staples Jr., “Early Baseball Encounters in the West: The Yeddo Royal Japanese Troupe Play Ball in America, 1872,” International Pastime, July 18, 2019.
• Dan VanDeMortel, “White Circles Drawn in Crayon,” in The Polo Grounds: Essays and Memories of New York City’s Historic Ballpark, 1880-1963; ed. Stew Thornley (McFarland & Co.)

2019

• Richard Bak, “The Rise and Fatal Fall of Tenny Blount,” unpublished work.
• Robert Fitts, “Baseball and the Yellow Peril,” Base Ball: New Research on the Early Game, Vol. 10 (McFarland & Co.)
• John McMurray, “Addie Joss and the Benefit Game,” Base Ball: New Research on the Early Game, Vol. 10 (McFarland & Co.)

2018

• Warren Corbett, “The ‘Strike’ Against Jackie Robinson: Truth or Myth?”, Baseball Research Journal, Spring 2017 (SABR)
• Doron Goldman, “1933-1962: The Business Meetings of Negro League Baseball,” in Baseball’s Business: The Winter Meetings, 1958-2016 (SABR)

2017

• Jack Bales, “The Show Girl and the Shortstop: The Strange Saga of Violet Popovich and Her Shooting of Cub Billy Jurges,” Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2016 (SABR)
• Dan Barry, “The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man,” New York Times, October 30, 2016

2016

• Richard Bak, “Digging Up Bob Troy,” unpublished (subsequently published in Michigan Historical Review #44, No. 1, Spring 2018)
• Doron Goldman, “The Double Victory Campaign and the Campaign to Integrate Baseball,” from Who’s on First: Replacement Players in World War II, eds. Marc Z. Aaron and Bill Nowlin, 2015 (SABR)
• William Lamb, “Jury Nullification and the Not Guilty Verdicts in the Black Sox Case,” Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2015 (SABR)

2015

• David Ball with David Nemec, “The Sam Barkley Case,” Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 7 (McFarland & Co.)
• James Overmyer, “Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium,” Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Vol. 7 (McFarland & Co.)

2014

• Rory Costello, “Olympic Stadium,” SABR Baseball Biography Project
• Christopher W. Schmidt, “Explaining the Baseball Revolution,” Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 45, 2013
• Tom Shieber, “The Pride of the Seeknay,” Baseball Researcher

2013

• Bruce Allardice, “The Inauguration of This Noble and Manly Game Among Us: The Spread of Baseball in the South Prior to 1870,” Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Fall 2012 (McFarland & Co.)
• Ken Fenster, “Earl Mann Beats the Klan: Jackie Robinson and the First Integrated Games in Atlanta,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Spring 2013
• Mitchell Nathanson, “Who Exempted Baseball Anyway? The Curious Development of the Antitrust Exemption That Never Was,” Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, Spring 2013

2012

• Thomas L. Altherr, “Basepaths and Baselines: The Agricultural and Surveying Contexts of the Emergence of Baseball”, Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Fall 2011
• William Lamb, “John B. Day”, SABR Baseball Biography Project
• Geri Strecker, “Dave Wyatt: The First Great Black Sportswriter”, Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Spring 2011

2011

• Ron Cobb, “The Georgia Peach: Stumped by the Storyteller”, The National Pastime: Baseball in the Peach State, 2010 (SABR)
• Jeff Obermeyer, “Disposable Heroes: Returning World War II Veteran Al Niemiec Takes on Organized Baseball”, Baseball Research Journal, Summer 2010 (SABR)
• Geri Strecker, “And the Public Has Been Left to Guess the Secret: Questioning the Authorship of ‘The Great Match, and Other Matches’ (1877)”, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Spring 2010

2010

• Mark Armour, “A Tale of Two Umpires,” Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2009 (SABR)
• William F. Lamb, “A Fearsome Collaboration: The Alliance of Andrew Freedman and John T. Brush,” Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Fall 2009
• Geri Strecker, “The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field: Biography of a Ballpark,” Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro League, Fall 2009

2009

• David J. Laliberte, “Myth, History and Indian Baseball: An Unexpected Story of the Game in Minnesota”
• William J. McGill, “The Greatest College Pitcher: George Sisler at Michigan”
• David Vaught, “Our Players Are Mostly Farmers: Baseball in Rural California, 1850-1890”

2008

• Henry D. Fetter, “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses, and the Death of the Brooklyn Dodgers”. (Revised text published under title “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses and the End of the Brooklyn Dodgers,” in New York History, Vol. 89, No. 1, Winter 2008)
• Frederick Ivor-Campbell, “Knickerbocker Base Ball: The Birth and Infancy of the Modern Game” Base Ball: A Journal of the Negro League, Fall 2007 (McFarland & Co.)
• Dick Thompson, “Cannonball Bill Jackman,” The National Pastime #27, 2007 (SABR)

2007

• Brian Carroll, “Early Twentieth Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League Baseball in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender,” Journalism History, Spring 2006
• Mitchell Nathanson, “The Irrelevance of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption: A Historical Review,” Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 58, Issue 1, 2005
• Steve Steinberg, “Matty and the Browns: A Window Onto the AL-NL War,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Spring 2006

2006

• Charlie Bevis, “Rocky Point: A Lone Outpost of Sunday Baseball in Sabbatarian New England,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Fall 2005
• Gregory Bond, “Too Much Dirty Work: Race, Manliness And Baseball in Gilded Age Nebraska,” Nebraska History
• James Forr, “Pie Traynor,” SABR Baseball Biography Project

2005

• Richard Bak, “Bat Out of Hell,” included in the author’s book Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours, Sports Media Group, 2005
• Ken Fenster, “Earl Mann, Nat Peeples and the Failed Attempt of Integration in the Southern Association,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Spring 2004

2004

• Charlie Bevis, “Evolution of the Sunday Doubleheader and Its Role in Elevating the Popularity of Baseball.” The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2003-04 (McFarland & Co.)
• Bob Gorman and David Weeks, “Foul Play, Fan Fatalities in Twentieth-Century Organized Baseball,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Fall 2003
• Robert H. Schaefer, “The Great Baseball Match of 1858, Base Ball’s First All-Star Game,” published in NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Fall 2005

2003

• Frank Ardolino, “Missionaries, Cartwright and Spalding,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Fall 2002
• Ron Briley, “In the Tradition of Jackie Robinson: Ozzie Virgil and the Integration of the Detroit Tigers,” The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2002 (McFarland & Co.)
• Jim McConnell, “Dahlgren, You’re in There”

2002

• Bruce Markusen, “Thirty Years Ago … The First All-Black Lineup”, MLBlogs.com
• Robert H. Schaefer, “Legend of the Lively Ball,” Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game (McFarland & Co.)
• Dick Thompson, “Baseball’s Greatest Hero: Joe Pinder,” Baseball Research Journal #30, 2001 (SABR)

2001

• Tom Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough To Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic”, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives
• Robert H. Schaefer, “The Lost Art of Fair-Foul Hitting,” The National Pastime #20, 2000 (SABR)
• Dick Thompson, “The Wes Ferrell Story,” The National Pastime #21, 2001 (SABR)

2000

• Ron Briley, “As American as Cherry Pie: Baseball and Reflections of Violence in the 1960s and 1970s,” The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999
• Chris Lamb, “L’Affaire Jake Powell: The Minority Press Goes to Bat Against Segregated Baseball,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1, Spring 1999
• Stephen Norwood and Harold Brackman, “Going to Bat for Jackie Robinson: The Jewish Role in Breaking Baseball’s Color Line,” Journal of Sport History, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring 1999

1999

• David M. Jordan, Larry Gerlach and John Rossi, “A Baseball Myth Exploded,” The National Pastime #18, SABR, 1998
• Jim McConnell, “Baseball’s Dark Past,” Grandstand Baseball Annual
• Andrew O’Toole, “Clemente’s First Spring,” Elysian Fields Quarterly

1998

• Clifford Blau, “The History of Major League Tie Games”
• John McReynolds, “Nate Moreland, Mystery to Historians,” Los Angeles Sentinel, August 13, 1998
• Gary Smith, “Damned Yankee,” Sports Illustrated, October 13, 1997

1997

• Adrian Burgos Jr., “Jugando en el Norte: Caribbean Players in the Negro Leagues, 1910-1950,” Centro: Journal del Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños
• Jim Price, “A Half Century of Pain: A retrospective look at the 1946 Spokane Indian bus accident,” The Spokesman-Review, June 24, 1996
• Joseph M. Wayman, “Pitching Won-Loss Records, National League, 1890-1899,” Grandstand Baseball Annual

1996

• James A. Smith Jr. and Herman Krabbenhoft, “Triple Play Project,” The Baseball Quarterly Review
• Hank Thomas & Chuck Carey, for research involved in “The California Comet” on Walter Johnson’s California semi-pro career
• Michael O’Grady, “From Covehead to the Polo Grounds: The Story of Henry Haverlock Oxley, Major Leaguer”

1995

• Peter C. Bjarkman, Baseball with a Latin Beat: A History of the Latin American Game
• Robert F. Burk, Never Just a Game: Players, Owners and American Baseball to 1920
• Jack Kavanagh, Walter Johnson: A Life

1994

• Lloyd Johnson and Miles Wolff, The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball
• James A. Riley, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues
• Michael Gershman, Diamonds: The Evolution of the Ballpark

1993

• Phil Dixon, The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History
• Barbara Gregorich, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball
• William Ryczek, Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of The National Association

1992

• Robert Gregory, Diz: The Story of Dizzy Dean and Baseball During the Great Depression
• Herman Krabbenhoft, “Baseball Quarterly Reviews”
• Mark Stang and Linda Harkness, “Rosters!”

1991

• Bruce Kuklick, “To Everything a Season — Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia 1909-1976”

1990

• Dr. Harold Seymour, Baseball: The People’s Game
• Dick Clark, John Holway and James A. Riley, for work on Negro League statistics in The Baseball Encyclopedia (8th edition)
• James E. Miller, “The Baseball Business”

1989

• Bill Deane, Award Voting
• Paul Dickson, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary
• Marc Okkonen, Major League Uniforms of the 20th Century

1988

• Melvin Adelman, for his work on 1820-1870 New York City baseball
• Stew Thornley, “On to Nicollet,” a team profile of the Minneapolis Millers
• Bob Tiemann and Rich Topp, for their work cataloging managerial changes

1987

• Andy McCue, Baseball By the Books
• Rob Ruck, The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic