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ABG is a CASEY Award Finalist!

Nov 9, 2024   //   by admin   //   The Book (A Baseball Gaijin)  //  Comments Off on ABG is a CASEY Award Finalist!

A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back has been named a finalist for Spitball Magazine‘s 42nd annual CASEY Award, which will be given next March to the best baseball book of 2024. I’m honored to be listed along with some really talented authors of books I plan to read soon. Here’s the list of the 10 finalists:

BIO

Aaron Fischman is a sports writer, author, editor and multimedia journalist, who currently hosts the On the NBA Beat podcast, a weekly interview show he co-founded with fellow USC alums Loren Lee Chen and brother Joshua Fischman in advance of the 2015-16 NBA season. On the podcast, he and the crew interview some of the league’s best reporters on their particular beat. Fischman’s first book, A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back, an uplifting nonfiction Japanese baseball story, has been nominated for the prestigious CASEY Award for best baseball book of 2024. Read more.