The Society for American Baseball Research and the University of Nebraska Press are pleased to co-sponsor an annual award for the best book-length nonfiction manuscript submitted by a member of SABR. Memoirs, biographies, historical monographs, analyses, and essays are eligible for consideration. Professor Richard Crepeau of the University of Central Florida; Steve Gietschier, research director of the Sporting News; and Bill Kirwin, editor of Nine; make up the judging committee.

Previous Winners of the Jerry Malloy Book Prize
Steve Bullock, for a manuscript about baseball in the military during World War II.

Joseph A. Reaves, for Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia

Submissions for the Jerry Malloy Book Prize Welcomed

Competition rules and submission guidelines are below. The deadline for entries is November 1. Manuscripts and queries should be directed to:

University of Nebraska Press
1111 Lincoln Mall
Lincoln NE 68588-0630
pressmail@unl.edu
Jerry Malloy Book Prize Rules and Submission Guidelines

1. Entries must be received by November 1 of any year and be named as best manuscript by at least two of the judges, who shall report by January 31 of the following year.*
2. The winning manuscript shall be published by UNP, who will contract directly with the author of the winning entry.
3. Winners will be given a cash prize of $1000 by UNP as an advance against royalties.
4. Manuscripts must be prose, book-length (at least 150 double-spaced manuscript pages), and nonfiction. Works of narrative, analysis, and argument are desired. Eligible manuscripts will include, but are not necessarily limited to, history, biography, autobiography/memoir, literary analysis, essays, and political, social, and economic commentary. The award is not intended for purely celebratory, statistical, or speculative manuscripts. Novels, short stories, drama, and poetry will not be considered.
5. Manuscripts must not have been previously published in book form. They may include reasonable portions previously published in journals, but the author must secure all necessary rights and permissions.
6. Manuscripts may not be simultaneously under consideration by any other publisher.
7. Manuscripts must be submitted double-spaced, on one side of the page only, in clean and legible format.
8. A prepaid mailer must accompany submissions if authors wish to have them returned.
9. The competition and award are limited exclusively to SABR members in good standing at the time of submission.
10. Either sponsor may consider any submission for publication on its own merits outside of the contest, after the winner has been chosen.
11. A currently serving judge may not submit manuscripts for the award.
12. No fee shall be charged for entry or consideration of a manuscript.

* In the event no single manuscript is so selected, SABR's publications director and the appropriate UNP editor shall make determination of the winner from those named by the judges as best manuscripts. In the event that the judges or the sponsoring organizations believe no manuscript submitted demonstrates sufficient merit for selection, no award will be made in that year.